GRANTS AND DONATIONS ΤΟ HARVARD COLLEGE. TABLE I. GRANTS BY THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS TO HARVARD COLLEGE, FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE PRESENT TIME. FROM THE STATE RECORDS. Date. 1636 Toward a school or College, 1639 Cambridge and Watertown rates, £30 128. and £20,. 1654 £100 per annum, for seven years, 1672 £150 per annum to the President for three years, 1694 Do. 1695 Do. £50 per annum for six years, แ 66 1707 Do. £60 1708 Do. £150 " 1709 Do. for repairing his house, 1711 Do. 1718 Do. 180 at 45 For erecting Massachusetts Hall £1500 at 45 per cent. 1719 To the President £180 at 30 per cent. discount from Two hundred and fifty acres of land in the town of Lunenburg, sold for £120 at 50 per cent., 1720 To the President, £400 at 50 per cent. discount, 1722 To the President, £150 at 57 1723 To the President, £150 at 60 1725 To the President, £220 at 64 1726 To the President, £360 at 64 For President's House, £1000 at 64 per cent. discount, 1727 To the President, £360 per annum for eight years is £2880, at 64 per cent. discount, 1735 To Prof. Wigglesworth, £50 at 78 per cent. discount, 1736 To the President, £120 at 76 per cent. discount, To Prof. Wigglesworth, £16 138. 4d. at 76 pr ct. disc., 1737 To the President, £200 at 76 per cent. discount, 1738 To the President, £300 at 79 per cent. discount, 126 13 114 0 108 99 0 04000 †This grant was defeated by adverse claims Date. £ Sterling. 5192 02 4 £ Lawful. 4602 1 2 3 10 0 31 10 0 6 6 0 Amount brought forward, To Prof. Wigglesworth, £16 138. 4d. at 79 per ct. disc., 1741 To the President, £150 at 79 per cent. discount, To Prof. Wigglesworth, £30 at 79 per cent. disc., 1743 To the President, £200 at 79 per cent. discount, To Prof. Wigglesworth, £25 at 79 per cent. discount, 1746 To the President, £240 at 83 per cent. discount, To Prof. Wigglesworth, £25 at 83 per cent. discount, 1747 To the President, £300 at 84 per cent. discount, To Prof. Wigglesworth, £75 at 84 per cent. discount, 1748 To the President, £350 at 85 per cent. discount, To Prof. Wigglesworth, £125 at 85 per cent. discount, 1750 To the President, £336 12s. 4d. at 90 66 42 0 0 5 5 0 40 16 0 18 15 0 33 13 4 66 แ 20 0 0 To Prof. Wigglesworth, £200 at 90 To Prof. Winthrop, £50 at 90 per cent. discount, 1752 To the President, £250 at 90 per cent. discount, 1753 To Prof. Wigglesworth, £100 at 90 per cent. discount, 10 0 To Prof. Winthrop, £60 at 90 per cent. discount, To the President, To Prof. Wigglesworth, To Prof. Winthrop, To Rabbi Judah Monis, instructor in Hebrew, 1755 To the President, £250 per annum, for six years, 1757 To Prof. Wigglesworth, £100 for four years, To Prof. Winthrop, £90 per annum, for four years, 6 0 *480 0 0 190 0 0 150 O 0 20 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 1500 0 0 40 0 0 400 0 0 360 0 0 18 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 230 0 0 To Prof. Wigglesworth, To Prof. Winthrop, 1762 To the President," To Prof. Wigglesworth, To Prof. Winthrop, Toward erection of a new building (Hollis Hall,) For materials for the same, One sixty-fourth part of twelve townships in Maine, 1763 To the President, To Prof. Wigglesworth, To Prof. Winthrop, To Prof. Sewall,. Toward new building, For defraying arrearages on the same, 1764 To the President, To Prof. Wigglesworth, To Prof. Winthrop, To Prof. Sewall, 1783 0 0 530 7 2 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 75 10 6 100 0 0 To Andrew Eliot, butler, For a "water engine," To students for losses by the burning of Harvard Hall, To others belonging to the College, sufferers by fire, 1765 To the President, To Prof. Wigglesworth, To Prof. Winthrop, To Prof. Sewall,. Toward rebuilding Harvard Hall, 1766 To the President, To Prof. Wigglesworth, To Prof. Winthrop, For rebuilding Harvard Hall, 1767 To the President, £200 per annum, for seven years, Amount carried forward, 116 17 2 267 4 0 2000 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 1000 0 0 200 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 1112 18 74 1400 0 0 5556 12 8 21,725 18 7 * At this period, the currency was changing from paper to specie; and although it may not have been completed by this year, yet, as there are no means of ascertaining the exact difference, the nominal amount is allowed. Date. Amount brought forward, To Prof. Wigglesworth, £100 per annum, for nine To Prof. Winthrop, £100 per annum, for nine years, 1770 To Prof. Sewall, £40 per annum, for six years, 1771 Four eighty-fourth parts of towns in Maine, Three sixty-fourth parts of other towns in Maine, 1775 To the President, 1777 To the President, £242 48. 5d. which, at the average To Prof. Wigglesworth, £189 178. 8d. worth about 1778 To the President, £400, which in that year was To Prof. Wigglesworth, £200, worth about 1779 To the President, £1000, of which the average value in that year was about To Prof. Wigglesworth, £500, worth about To Prof. Sewall, £290, worth about To Prof. Winthrop, £500, worth about 1780 To the President, £7497 108. which, at 40 for one, is To Prof. Wigglesworth, £3500, which, at forty for one, is worth To Prof. Winthrop, £800, which, at forty for one, is worth To Prof. Sewall, £2080, which, at forty for one, is worth 1781 To Prof. Williams, (in specie,) To Prof. Wigglesworth, (in specie,) To Prof. Sewall, (in specie,) 1783 To the President, To the Professors, £105 each, 1784 To the President, To Prof. Wigglesworth, 1786 To the President, To Prof. Wigglesworth, and Prof. Pearson, £241 These sums are respectively equal to Amounting to £ Sterling. 5556 12 8 $100,000.00 $215,797.733 1814 Ten sixteenths of bank tax, $10,000 a year for ten years, Besides the above grants of money and lands, a lottery was authorized, in 1765, to raise £3,200 "for the new building," probably Harvard Hall. In 1785 £200 per annum were ordered to be paid by Charles River Bridge Corporation, as a compensation for the ferry which had been granted to the College in 1640. In 1792, the same sum was taxed upon West Boston Bridge Corporation. In 1794, a lottery was granted to raise £800 for a new building, and in 1806 another to raise $30,000 for a similar purpose. In 1809, a township of land in Maine was given to the Massachusetts Agricultural Society for the Professorship of Natural History. * See Felt's History of Massachusetts Currency, pp. 186 and 196. TABLE II. DONATIONS, CONSISTING PRINCIPALLY OF SUMS OF MONEY, AND ARTICLES ESTIMATED IN MONEY, GIVEN BY INDIVIDUALS TO HARVARD COLLEGE. Date. 1638 Rev. JOHN HARVARD,* 1639 Mr. Joseph Glover gave a "font of printing letters."+ 1642 The Honorable Magistrates and Reverend Elders books valued at Mr. Henry Pool, Mr. Theophilus Eaton, Mr. Richard Russell, Mr. Edward Jackson, Mr. Wory,. 10 0 0 4 0 0 8 0 0 Mr. Parish, merchant, "and Some gentlemen of Amsterdam gave £49, press with letters, Mr. William Hibbons, Mr. Thomas Welles, Mr. Hugh Peters, library, Procured from divers gen tlemen and merchants in Mr. Holbrook, schoolmaster at Essex, England, Rev. Mr. Greenhill, minister of God's word at 49 0 0 000 000 150 O 210 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 His Majesty's Colonies in eight years gave as follows, viz.:-Massachusetts, Hartford, New Haven, Plymouth, (town of,) 1643 Lady Moulson, Mr. Bridges, Sundry other persons unknown, 1644 Mr. Richard Harris, a great silver salt, valued, in 2654, at £5 18. 3d. at 58. per ounce, and a small Mr. Thomas Langham, a silver beer bowl, valued at Amount carried forward, 4 0 0 A question is raised by President Quincy whether this bequest amounted to more than the half of this sum, the phraseology being that he gave "the moiety of his estate." But the earliest records imply that the moiety amounted to the sum above named; and the testimony of the Rev. Thomas Shepard, his cotemporary, and the minister of Cambridge, is positive to the fact that the property of Harvard amounted to £1600. He also gave 320 volumes of books. The font of types was perhaps bequeathed to the College by Mr. Glover, who was a printer, and who died on the passage to this country. His widow afterward became the wife of President Dunster. These three sums, amounting to £162 16s. 4d., were paid into the "country treasury," where they remained till 1713, when they were repaid with interest at six per cent. per annum from 1685, £15 per annum having been allowed from 1643 to 1685. Date. Amount brought forward, From a letter of Dunster's to the Commissioners, in 1650 John Newgate (or Newdigate) of Boston, gave by terest on 1653 John Glover, an annuity of £5, 1654 Sundry gentlemen, and the town of Charlestown, toward the repairs of the College, 1655 Sir Kenelm Digby gave books to the value of 1657 Edward Hopkins, Governor of Hartford Colony, [The facilities of conveyance may be judged of by the charge of £78. 6d. for transport to Cambridge. By his will, which was proved in 1657, he gave £500 to trustees for the purpose of "breeding up hopeful youth in a way of learning both at the Grammar School and College for the public service of the country in future times." £ Sterling. This bequest was not paid till 1718, and then [In College Book No. 1, p. 44, is the following 1658 Sir Richard Daniel, Knight, gave many books to the Mr. William Colburn, of Boston, gave in money, Mr. William Paine, merchant, gave, to be laid out in Amount carried forward, *This annuity was sold in 1844 for $333,33. 1839 17 Mass. Currency. 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 251 15 6 60 0 ̊0 7 10 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 35 0 0 50 0 10 0 0 500 20 0 0 †This annuity continues to be paid, and is a charge on a building in Dock Square. |