What An Collins was reading

An Collins’s 1653 collection of poems, Divine Songs and Meditacions, contain all that we know about the writer. But in these poems she tells us much about the books that she had read, and about her indebtedness to the catechetical works of the Elizabethan puritan theologian William Perkins in particular.

Receipts related to the dispersal of the Croswell estate, 1785-1788

Seven handwritten receipts dated between 1785 and 1788.

Votes in Plimpton, 1788 April 7

Handwritten list of the votes cast for state government candidates in Plimpton, Massachusetts.

Copy of Andrew Croswell's executor's account, 1788 June 2

One-leaf account of the disbursements of the estate of Andrew Croswell presented to the judge of probate for Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

Letters to Hannah Collins, 1806 July

Two letters to Hannah Collins dated July 26 and 29, 1806, regarding money owed by Croswell for washing services.

Deed of sale, 1788 September 10

Deed between grantor Abraham Bailey of Tewksbury and grantees Andrew Bordman IV and William Symonds both of Tweksbury for a piece of land and a building in Tewksbury.

Account books of William Aspinwall, 1776-1812 (inclusive)

Two account books containing entries noting patients visited, fees charged, and small accounts of Dr. William Aspinwall (1743-1823) in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, from 1776 to 1812. He includes sections for "Women's Accounts" with charges generally rendered to their husbands or other male relatives. There is also an entry charging the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts, four dollars and fifty cents for medicines and attendance to a boy who contracted smallpox.

Boston, Massachusetts and vicinity, showing Revolutionary War fortification sites, 1788 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Boston with its environs, [by] T. Conder, sculpt. The map was originally published in: William Gordon's The history of the rise, progress, and establishment, of the independence of the United States of America, 1788. Scale [ca. 1:53,360]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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 Revolutionary War features such as positions of troops, redoubts, batteries, and forts, etc. It also shows features such as roads, drainage, selected public buildings and residences, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts 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 (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

Ancient oriental cyclinder and other seals with a description of the collection of Mrs. William H. Moore,

Mode of access: Internet.

Shakespearean extracts from "Edward Pudsey's booke", temp. Q. Elizabeth & K. James I. which include some from an unknown play by William Shakespeare [or rather from Chapman's "Blind beggar of Alexander"] Also a few unpublished records of the Shakespeare of Snitterfield and Wroxall preserved in the Public Record Office.

Mode of access: Internet.

The poetical works of William Alexander; including his Christiad, dramas, and minor poems, with Dissertations on poetry, and a sketch of his life.

Mode of access: Internet.

España bajo el reinado de la Casa de Borbón, desde 1700, en que subió al trono Felipe V, hasta la muerte de Carlos III, acaecida en 1788 /

Contiene : Tom. 1 - Tom. 2 - Tom. 3 - Tom. 4.

Voyage autour du monde, et principalement a la côte nord-quest de l'Amérique, fait en 1785, 1786, 1787 et 1788 a bord du King-George et de la Queen-Charlotte, par les Capitaines Portlock et Dixon... /

Se trata de una serie de 37 cartas firmadas por "W.B." (William Bereford), supercargo del barco "Queen Charlotte", y editadas con una introducción de George Dixon. Se incluye dedicatoria a Joseph Banks.

The Christian and civic economy of large towns.

Vol. 3, printed for William Collins.