Letter: to Francis Nicholson, [17--]

Letter, undated, from committee of eight members of the Church of England in Boston, John Barnes, Thomas Greaves, Anthony Blount, John Gibbins, George Cradock, Thomas Selbey and two others, appealing to Nicholson to help support the founding and building of Christ Church.

Notes: concerning sermons : manuscript, 1728-1730

Notes on sermons delivered by John Webb and Peter Thatcher, Congregational ministers at the New North Church in Boston.

Letter from Benjamin Colman to Edward Wigglesworth about John Leverett, 1728 March 4

Benjamin Colman wrote this letter to Edward Wigglesworth on March 4, 1728; it was sent from Colman, in Boston, to Wigglesworth, in Cambridge. The letter concerns their mutual friend, John Leverett, who had died several years before. It appears that Wigglesworth was charged with writing an epitaph for Leverett and had solicited input from Colman. Colman writes of his great admiration for Leverett, praising his "virtue & piety, wisdom & gravity [...] majesty & authority [...] eye & voice, goodness & courtesie."

Account book, 1780-1802 (inclusive)

Account book of the Rev. John Lathrop, who was minister of the Second Church in Boston (Old North Church) from 1768 to 1816.

Boston & Maine Railroad, 1849 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the Boston & Maine Railroad : published by order of the Legislature of Massachusetts, showing its relative position & connection with other railroads, prepared by order of the Committee of Investigation ; Wm. P. Parrott, engineer ; George B. Parrott, del. It was published in July 1849 by W.C. Sharp's Lith. Scale [ca. 1:162,925]. Covers area from Portland, Me. to Boston, Mass. and west to Concord, N.H.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, state, county and selected town boundaries, and more.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Mary H. Graham

On verso: Ornate photographer's stamp. W. Notman. The Notman Photographic Co. 55 North Pearl St. Albany, N.Y.; 4 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Cambridge, Mass., New Haven, Conn., and Easton, Pa. (Daybook, image #26)

The two sides of the school question : as set forth at the annual meeting of the National Educational Association, held at Nashville, Tennessee, July, 1889 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Argument of Charles F. Choate, esq., in behalf of the Northern (N.H.) railroad, against the consolidation of the Boston & Lowell and Fitchburg railroads, before the railway committee of the Massachusetts legislature, February 26, 1873.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the introduction of pure water into the city of Boston : with a description of its Cochituate water works ... /

For supplement see Fitzgerald, Desmond. History of the Boston water works from 1868 to 1876.

The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics.

Description based on: v. 3, no. 3 (Oct./Nov. 1898)

Boston College's first Boston Brahmin friends /

Title from cover.