12 Summary of the Returns of the Commissioners for the Appeal for Funds

    [May 20 1652]

    The returne of the Commissioners of the severall Townes for the Colledge Contrybution Returned as followes

    Salem no returne

    Charlestowne no returne

    £10 per annum

    Dorchester not presented

    £70

    Boston no present returne

    Roxbury

    £48.5s.8d

    Watertown no returne

    36.14.3

    Lyn no returne

    Cambridge no Legall returne

    £150

    Ipswitch no Legall returne

    Newbury

    £15

    Weymouth

    10.16.6d

    Hingham no returne

    Concord no returne

    £5 per annum for 7 years

    Dedham no returne

    £70.10s

    Salsbury no returne

    Hampton Seventeene

    £17.19s

    Rowley no returne

    38.00.00

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    Sudbury no returne

    £18.2s.6d

    Braintry no returne

    Dover

    Strawbury Bank

    Gloucester no returne

    Wooburne

    28.14.6

    Wenham no returne

    6.10

    Havorile

    Readinge no eturne

    £16.13s.00

    Springfeild

    Malden

    Meadfeild twenty five

    £25.1s

    The Deputyes on a hearing of the returne of the severall Deputyes in the Case about the Colledg doe judge meete to referr the Determination of what may concerne the former to a further hearinge the next sessions and in the meane time desire the severall Deputyes to endevour to give a more full answer there unto and to bring in the subscriptions of the severall Townes the next sessions.

    voted by the Deputyes Wm. Torrey.

    Corporation Papers. Most of the sums appear to have been added later, after the documents following for 1653 were received. For the Colony’s attempt to collect contributions to the College from the towns see Morison, Seventeenth Century, i. 27–30 and ii. 573–574, where a document, from the Massachusetts Archives, very similar to this, is printed. See also Hoffmann, Commonwealth College, pp. 95–99. The returns were in response to a circular issued on October 31, 1653, by a legislative committee, headed by Increase Nowell, Secretary of the Colony.