Records, 1790-1805

Contains a variety of material relating to cases before the courts of common pleas in Kent, New Castle, and Sussex counties. One file deals exclusively with cases regarding slaves. Most likely kept by Rodney but some materials attributed to Wilson's Red Book.

Notes on cases in Boston, 1784-1790

Notes on various cases, including cases of burglary, debt, fraud, libel, receiving stolen goods, and one case of attempted murder of an infant by his mother.

Student mathematical textbook of James Freeman, 1774

Manuscript volume containing portions of text copied from Nicholas Saunderson’s Elements of algebra, Nicholas Hammond’s The elements of algebra, and John Ward’s The young mathematician’s guide. The volume is divided into two main parts: the first is titled Concerning the parts of Arithmetick (p. 1-98) and the second, The elements of Algebra, extracted from Hammond, Ward & Saunderson (p. 99-259).

Poems copied by James Diman, ca. 1730-1733

Small pamphlet-sized notebook containing handwritten transcriptions of three poems copied by James Diman, likely in the early 1730s. The notebook contains "The Catholic Remedy. to ye Tune of To all you Ladies, not at land &c.," "Father Ab--y's Will. Col. Sweeper Camb: Dec. 1731," and "The Poet's Lamentation for ye Loss of his cat, w'ch he used to call his Muse" copied from the London Magazine, November 1733. The "Catholic Remedy" begins "You Peope who desire to mend / your Desperate Estate..." and includes the note, "Made upon A--D--'s goving over to take orders. The note refers to the voyage of Addington Davenport (Harvard AB 1719) to England join the priesthood of the Church of England in 1730. "Father Ab--y's Will" begins "To my dear Wife, / My joy and Life..." and was a humorous poem published in 1731 after the death of Harvard College Sweeper Matthew Abdy, and attributed to Jonathan Seccombe (Harvard AB 1728). The "Poet's Lamentation" begins "Oppress'd with Grief, in heavy strains I mourn..." and was written by Joseph Green (Harvard AB 1726) as a parody of a psalm composed by Mather Byles (Harvard AB 1725). Pages 10-12, holding part of "Father Ab--y's Will" are missing, and pages 13-15 are no longer attached to the item.

An inventory of all of the estate of Caleb Gannett late of Cambridge in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, deceased, appraised upon oath by us the subscribers, duly appointed to that service by the Hon. James Prescott Esq. Judge of Probate & wills, in said county of Middlesex, viz., 1818 May 21

Eight-page handwritten inventory and appraisal of Caleb Gannett's real estate and personal estate by William Hilliard, James R. Chaplin, and Royal Morse with an attached certification of the Middlesex County Court of Probate signed May 26, 1818.

Thaddeus Mason Harris' working documents regarding subject-based library catalog, ca. 1790

Thaddeus Mason Harris, who served as interim librarian of the Harvard College Library in 1787 and as its librarian from 1791 through 1793, is believed to have created these notes while helping compile the library's first printed subject-based catalog. The catalog, Catalogus Bibliothecae Harvardianae Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum, was published in 1790 and represented a significant change in approach to the cataloging of the library's collections, which had formerly been cataloged alphabetically. These documents, many of them on small scraps of paper, contain the titles and bibliographic information of books on a range of topics, from "Anatomici" to "Rhetorica."

Sermons on practical subjects: to which is added, a farewell discourse, delivered at Paisley in April and May 1768.

Mode of access: Internet.

Viaje al rededor [sic] del mundo : hecho en los años de 1768, 69, 70 y 71 /

MTSD 0412.

Histoire des nouvelles découvertes faites dans la mer du Sud en 1767, 1768, 1769 & 1770 /

La obra completa consta de dos volúmenes. En anteportada: "Hydrographie de la Mer du Sud". Relata, fundamentalmente, el viaje del capitán Cook.

Supplément au voyage de M. de Bougainville : ou Journal d'un voyage autour du monde, fait par MM. Banks & Solander, Anglois, en 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 /

Obra anónima atribuida a distintos autores: Capt. Cook, Joseph Banks, John Hawkesworth, Charles Solander, Richard Orton y William Perry. Misma composición tipográfica que la edición publicada en Paris el mismo año bajo el título: "Journal d'un voyage autour du monde".(Información tomada del catálogo OPALE de la BNF) Se incluye: "Vocabulaire abrégé de la langue de l'ile Otahiti" p. 241-250, "Lettre de M. de Commerson a M. de La Lande" p. 251-286 y, "Lettre de M. le B. de G.. [Bougainville] à M. de F.. [Fesche?]" p. 287-362

Año christiano ó Exercicios devotos para todos los domingos, dias de quaresma, y fiestas movibles del año : contiene la ... explicacion de quanto hay mas particular è instructivo en tales dias, algunas reflexiones sobre la Epístola, una meditacion despues del Evangelio de la Misa ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Año christiano ó exercicios devotos para todos los domingos, dias de Quaresma y fiestas movibles del año : contiene la ... explicacion de quanto hay mas particular è instructivo en tales dias algunas reflexiones sobre la Epístola, una meditacion despues del Evangelio de la Misa /

Mode of access: Internet.

Select specimens of natural history, collected in travels to discover the source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia : Vol. V

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal d'un voyage autour du monde, en 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 : contenant les divers événements du voyage ... /

Según catálogo OPALE de la BNF: obra anónima atribuida a distintos autores: Capt. Cook, Joseph Banks, John Hawkesworth, Charles Solander, Richard Orton y William Perry.

The trials of James, Duncan and Robert M'Gregor, three sons of the celebrated Rob Roy, before the High court of justiciary, in the years 1752, 1753, and 1754. To which is prefixed a memoir relating to the Highlands, with anecdotes of Rob Roy and his family.

Trials for the abduction of Jean Key Wright.