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Colonial North America: Houghton Library

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Colonial North America: Houghton Library
Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America. Each item is connected to countless stories—of lives lived quietly and extravagantly, of encounters peaceful and volatile, and of places near and far – providing an opportunity to travel back in time, to rethink familiar stories, and to discover new ones.

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A journall of our expedition agt. Canada ... : manuscript, 1711 and 1722-1723. MS Am 1341. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

A journall of our expedition agt. Canada ... : manuscript, 1711 and 1722-1723. MS Am 1341. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

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188 pages: 25% complete (31% transcribed, 5% needs review)
Adams, William, 1650-1685. Sermons on sacrament days : manuscript, [ca.1650-1685]. MS Am 2137. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Adams, William, 1650-1685. Sermons on sacrament days : manuscript, [ca.1650-1685]. MS Am 2137. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

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252 pages: 8% complete (21% transcribed, 12% needs review)
Alden, Timothy. Seven forensic disputations on the question whether the time usually spent in learning the Latin, Greek, & Oriental languages be usefully occupied : by Timothy Alden, Samuel Dana, Jotham Bender, James Kendall, David Kendall, William Wells,

Alden, Timothy. Seven forensic disputations on the question whether the time usually spent in learning the Latin, Greek, & Oriental languages be usefully occupied : by Timothy Alden, Samuel Dana, Jotham Bender, James Kendall, David Kendall, William Wells,

240 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789. An essay on the universal plenitude of being and on the nature and immortality of the human soul and its agency : manuscript, [1784]. MS Am 1825. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789. An essay on the universal plenitude of being and on the nature and immortality of the human soul and its agency : manuscript, [1784]. MS Am 1825. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

85 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
American husbandry : manuscript, [ca. 1775-1789]. MS Am 1563. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

American husbandry : manuscript, [ca. 1775-1789]. MS Am 1563. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Summary: Account of the climate, soil, production and agriculture of North American regions from Nova Scotia to the West Indies and west to Louisiana; organized by region. Notes: Transcription in an unidentified hand of the printed book American husbandry (London, 1775), incomplete; with a...

440 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
Autograph File, C, 1554-2002. Cazneau, William A.L.s.to John Hancock; London, 23 Dec 1767. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Autograph File, C, 1554-2002. Cazneau, William A.L.s.to John Hancock; London, 23 Dec 1767. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

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5 pages: 80% complete (80% transcribed)
Barclay, David.David Barclay's report of his missionary labors : manuscript, 1800. MS Am 1055. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Barclay, David.David Barclay's report of his missionary labors : manuscript, 1800. MS Am 1055. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Summary: A chronological account of Barclay's missionary tour, chiefly in New England, 4 July-3 Sept. 1799. Entries mention the religious activities of the areas he visited, and in some cases mention the funds available to hire a minister in the community.

32 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672. Meditations divine and morall : manuscript, [not before 1672]. MS Am 1007. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672. Meditations divine and morall : manuscript, [not before 1672]. MS Am 1007. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

History note: Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet and the first female author published in America. She gave birth to eight children, including Simon and Sarah Bradstreet. Summary: Aphoristic prose paragraphs composed by Bradstreet in 1664, dedicated to her son Simon; other meditations and...

112 pages: 100% complete (100% transcribed)
Brasseur. Tableau de l’administration des Isles sous le Vent par M. le Brassuer : ancien administrateur par interim des dites îles : manuscript, [ca. 1780]. MS Fr 557. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Brasseur. Tableau de l’administration des Isles sous le Vent par M. le Brassuer : ancien administrateur par interim des dites îles : manuscript, [ca. 1780]. MS Fr 557. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Summary: Concerns conditions in the French colonies in the West Indies about 1780, in particular conditions on the island of Santo Domingo.

354 pages: 6% complete (59% translated, 49% needs review)
Bridge, Ebenezer, 1716-1792. Ebenezer Bridge papers, 1740-1792. Diary, pages 1-48 : autograph manuscript (unsigned), 1749-1750. MS Am 1186 (27). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Bridge, Ebenezer, 1716-1792. Ebenezer Bridge papers, 1740-1792. Diary, pages 1-48 : autograph manuscript (unsigned), 1749-1750. MS Am 1186 (27). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

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48 pages: 0% complete (100% transcribed, 100% needs review)
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