1 1 Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc., v. 60–61. It may be conjectured that the neighbor was one of the Bordman family, which supplied Harvard College with five stewards in the century 1650–1750. See list of College Stewards in our Publications, xv. clxi, and the statutes respecting their duties, id., pp. 32–33, 45–56.

2 See our Publications, xxvii. 399.

3 L. R. Paige, in 1 Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc., v. 156, and History of Cambridge, pp. 509–510; 6 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., iii. 424.

4 S. E. Morison, “Precedence at Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s., xlii. 371–431 (also printed separately). But I must confess to a little garbling myself. On page 422 (page 54 of the separate) I invented a mythical “Thomas Noyce,” the correct reading being “The Noyces” (James and Moses).

5 Our Publications, xv. 34. The “Buttery Book” is mentioned in id., pp. 62, 74, 231.

6 Laws of the University (1825), p. 29; but “term” is used as a synonym for “quarter” in The Laws of Harvard College (1798), p. 59.

7 Some students paid the 8s charge on the June quarter-day, 1654, and all did so by the December quarter-day; the increase in tuition must therefore have been made while Dunster was still president.

8 The other “Goodies”—Betts, Fox, Sill, etc.—mentioned in the accounts, seem to have been Cambridge residents who took in students’ washing.

9 S. E. Morison et al., “A Conjectural Restoration of the Old College,” Old-Time New England, xxiii. 131–158.

10 See the accounts in our Publications, xv. 5–14.

11 See list of studies, incomes, and quarterly rents, id., pp. 14–15.

12 Id., p. 19.

13 Id., pp. civ–cvi.

14 Id., p. cxxii.

15 See also the Laws of 1655, p. 331, below.

16 Including Malbone, Goodyear, and Swinnock, who had taken their degrees, but still owed the college money; and Jonathan Ince, who entered with the Class of 1651, but graduated in 1650.

17 See the lists, taken from this book, printed in my article in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s., XLII. 371–431.

18 The method here chosen for comparing values between these distant periods avoids the uncertainties which would be involved if an attempt were made to convert the 1650 prices into modern equivalents either through the medium of money units or through that of a yet more stable standard of value, the daily wage of unskilled labor. Either of the latter might be more readily understood by those unaccustomed to thinking in terms of statistical ratios, but the results obtained would be less accurate.

19 These price data were all taken from the reports of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The particular series selected were:

• Wheat—No. 1, northern spring
• Rye—No. 2, cash
• Corn—Cash, contract grades
• Beef—Carcass, good native steers, Chicago
• Pork—Fresh, loins, Chicago
• Sugar—96% centrifugal

20 Samuel Danforth, A.B. 1643; at this time Senior Fellow—Samuel Mather, who was so named in the Charter of 1650, having gone abroad. Sibley, Harvard Graduates, i. 88.

21 William Mildmay, of the Class of 1647, who had taken his A.M. in 1650. Sibley, i. 164; for his parentage see our Publications, xv. cxl n. Richard Lyon was the tutor sent over by Sir Henry Mildmay to look after his son, who seems to have been somewhat deficient, since he did not take his first degree with his class, continued to reside for a year after proceeding A.M., and lapsed into complete obscurity when he returned to England.

22 Jonathan Mitchell, Fellow of the Corporation next junior to Danforth, but no longer Tutor after August 21, 1650, when he was ordained minister of the Cambridge church in succession to Thomas Shepard. He retained his fellowship until his death in 1668.

23 A.B. 1647, A.M. 1650; entered here because he still owed money to the college when Chesholme took over the stewardship. See A. G. Matthews, Calamy Revised (1934), pp. 343–344.

24 Samuel Eaton, A.B. 1649, the third Fellow and Senior Tutor. Cf. p. [402]. For the use of “Sir,” see our Publications, xv. cxl.

25 A continuation of the account on p. [9], inserted here out of its original order.

26 An overflow debit account, entered by Chesholme on the credit page. Eaton is now called “Mr.” because he had taken his A.M. at the time these items were entered.

27 Urian Oakes, A.B. 1649, Junior Fellow and Tutor, later president of the college.

28 Nathaniel White, A.B. 1646, A.M. 1649. After taking his second degree he went to Eleuthera in the Bahamas, probably in charge of a shipload of supplies which the people about Boston had contributed to relieve the wants of a colony of exiled Bermudians there, which included his father. White returned in the summer of 1650 with a cargo of Brazil wood, a “pledge of thankfulness . . . to bee disposed of . . . as a stock for your Colledges use,” and which fetched £124. The accounts on these pages show that White then resumed residence in the college, whose generosity to a resident Master of Arts not a Fellow may be explained by his agency in securing the donation. After leaving in November, 1653, he probably returned to England, since his father, dying in Bermuda in 1668, left a legacy to his “son Nathaniell in England.” He was the ejected minister mentioned in Calamy, An Account of the Ministers Who Were Ejected or Silenced after the Restoration, ii. 761. See also our Publications, xiii. 22 n, 43, 53–54; Sir J. H. Lefroy, Memorials of the Bermudas.

29 Samuel Willis, of Hartford, of the Class of August 9, 1653; placed here and called “Mr.” because a fellow-commoner, outranking, as in English universities, all other undergraduates and resident bachelors of arts.

30 A fellow-commoner, from the “Mr.,” and a member of the Class of 1655, from the date of his entrance. Probably Charles, son of Robert Brooke, Esq., M.A. Oxon., of De la Brooke in Charles County, Maryland. Born in 1636, he was later a Justice of the Quorum, sheriff, and, as member of the Maryland Assembly, one of a committee to consider “founding and Erecting a School or College.” S. E. Morison, in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2 ser., xiii. 4–6.

31 John Whiting, A.B. August 9, 1653. See p. [71].

32 The Goffe house, acquired in 1651, and called “Goffe College.” See our Publications, xv. lxxvii–lxxxii. Cf. below, p. [110], where it is called “Ed goffes.” Many similar entries in later pages prove that there was a general exodus to Goffe in the quarter ending June 11, 1652, when it was probably first ready for occupancy by students.

33 John Rogers, A.B. 1649, A.M. 1652, the future president of the college.

34 Samuel Green, who succeeded the Days as printer. He will also be found in these pages cutting students’ hair, and performing other offices for the college.

35 John Collins, A.B. 1649, A.M. 1652, Fellow and Tutor, 1651–53. On July 1, 1654, “Johannes Collins, magister in Artibus apud Cantabrigienses in Nov. Angliâ,” was incorporated M.A. at the University of Cambridge. Camb. Univ. Registry, MS. Supplicats, 1651–56. He had already been elected Fellow of Pembroke College on April 13, but spent very little time there (MS. Absence Book, College Muniments). Cf. Sibley, i. 186–191; Matthews, Calamy Revised, p. 127.

36 The members of this class are all designated “Sir” because they had already graduated A.B. when entered in the book, and in 1651–1652 constituted what was known as the “Middle Bachelor” class.

37 William Stoughton, A.B. 1650. His diploma, dated “Coll. Harvard. 2 Aug: 1651,” signed by President Dunster and by Mitchell, Oakes, and Collins, Fellows, certifying (according to the second form printed in our Publications, xv. 23) that he had spent a “quinquennium apud nos” and was Bachelor of Arts, is recorded in Univ. Oxon. Arch., Qa 17. fol. 179. He was incorporated B.A. at Oxford, April 28, 1652 (Warden Sewall’s MS. Registrum Custodum, Sociorum, etc., Collegii Novi, p. 198, New College Muniments). He was elected Fellow of New College on September 14, 1652 (folio record of admissions, New College Muniments), proceeded M.A. June 30, 1653 (Univ. Oxon. Arch., Qa 17. fol. 187), received leave of absence from his college on September 29 “quod privata aliqua negotia præsentiam suam in Scotiâ requirunt” (New College Muniments), and was back in college in 1656 and served as bursar in 1657. Ejected by royal command in 1660, he returned to New England and became magistrate of the colony, lieutenant-governor of the province, and benefactor of the college.

38 Commencement Day.

39 Joshua and Jeremiah Hobart, A.B. 1650, A.M. 1653, survived their other classmates many years, dying in 1717 and 1715, respectively.

40 Edmund Weld, A.B. 1650.

41 Samuel Phillips, A.B. 1650, A.M. 1653.

42 Figures in the original changed to zeros.

43 Leonard Hoar, A.B. 1650, A.M. 1653; incorporated M.A. Cambridge 1654, M.D. Cambridge 1671. He returned to New England the next year, and became president of Harvard College. See Dictionary of American Biography, ix. 88.

44 Scituate, where Charles Chauncy, the second president, was at that time minister.

45 Isaac Allerton, A.B. 1650.

46 Crossed out in the original.

47 Pp. [34–35], containing Allerton’s debits and Malbone’s credits, are missing.

48 Samuel Malbone, son of a magistrate of the New Haven Colony (Sibley, i. 550), did not graduate from Harvard College. His diploma of residence, following the first form printed in our Publications, xv. 23, dated “e col. Harvard: Cantabr: Nov. Angl: Octobris 19° 1650,” and signed by President Dunster and Mather, Mitchell, and Starr, Fellows, is recorded in the Oxford University Archives (Qa 17. fol. 178). On May 29, 1651, he was admitted B.A. from New Inn Hall. For his later career see Matthews, Calamy Revised, pp. 333–334.

49 Michael Wigglesworth, A.B. 1651, A.M. 1654, Fellow and Tutor, 1652–54; author of The Day of Doom.

50 Crossed out in the original.

51 Crossed out in the original.

52 Crossed out in the original.

53 Seaborn, or “Marigena,” Cotton, as he appears in the Latin catalogue of graduates, A.B. 1651, A.M. 1654.

54 Crossed out in the original.

55 Thomas Dudley, A.B. 1651, A.M. 1654, Fellow and Tutor, 1654–55. He was a grandson of Governor Thomas Dudley, whose difference of opinion with Steward Chesholme is recorded in the credits for April 8, 1651.

56 Crossed out in the original.

57 Andrew Goodyear, who did not graduate. As Sibley suggests (i. 551), he was probably a son of Stephen Goodyear, Deputy-Governor of New Haven Colony from 1641 to 1657, his payments being made by Mr. Thomas Lake, of Boston, who married the Deputy’s daughter. The Goodyears of New Haven seem to have been the only family of that name in New England.

58 Mistake for “Debitor.”

59 John Glover, A.B. 1651, A.M. 1654, son of John Glover, merchant of Boston, who apparently worked off his “shooes” on the college to pay the young man’s accounts.

60 Habakkuk Glover, the student’s elder brother. Sibley, i. 196.

61 “Moyses” Bordman, eldest child of Steward William Bordman, born about 1640.

62 Added later.

63 A continuation of the account on p. [46], inserted here out of its original order. P. [48], facing the second page of Glover’s credits, is missing, but was probably blank.

64 Pp. [49–50] are missing, but Chesholme’s index refers to them under the name “Swineoke.” Foster’s Alumni Oxonienses mentions a Joseph Swinnocke, Chaplain of New College, 1649, M.A. June 20, 1653, who “spent 7 years in academical study here, and at Cambridge, N.E.” He was rector of St. Martin Orgar, London, in 1661. From Montagu Burrows, Register of the Visitors to the University of Oxford, 1647–1658 (Camden Society, 1881), pp. 169, 535, it appears that Joseph “Swynocke” was chosen Chaplain of New College, January 19, 1648/9. The name “Shinnock” appears in the New College Buttery Book (MS., College Muniments) for the week of July 4, 1659. One Joseph “Swinoke” is mentioned as cousin and beneficiary in the will of Ninion Butcher, of London (d 1658), whose daughter married John Glover, of Dorchester, father of John Glover of the Class of 1651. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxxviii. 416.

65 Henry Butler, A.B. 1651, A.M. 1654. P. [51], containing his credits, is missing.

66 John Davis, A.B. 1651, A.M. 1654, son of William Davis, of New Haven.

67 See note 1 under Goodyear, above, p. [43].

68 Crossed out in the original.

69 Both Thomas and William Jeggles were active in the maritime life of Salem during this period.

70 The date of this entry appears in the original as “15–1–5 49/52.”

71 Crossed out in the original.

72 Crossed out in the original.

73 Nathaniel Pelham, A.B. 1651, son of Herbert Pelham, the first college treasurer. His study is mentioned below, p. [128]. With his classmates Davis and Ince, he was drowned on a voyage to England in 1657. Sibley, i. 300.

74 Isaac and Ichabod Chauncy, A.B. 1651, A.M. 1654, sons of Charles Chauncy, then of Scituate, later president of Harvard College. See Matthews, Calamy Revised, p. 112.

75 Crossed out in the original.

76 Jonathan Ince, who skipped a class and graduated A.B. 1650, A.M. 1653.

77 Some of these “wryttings,” referring to the Eleuthera Donation, will be found in President Dunster’s MS. notebook at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

78 Jonathan Burr, A.B. 1651, A.M. 1654.

79 Both Burr and Nelson were wards of Richard Dummer, of Newbury.

80 For an explanation of the two Commencements in 1653, see the introduction to President Dunster’s Quadriennium Memoir. This class was the first that was required to reside four years for the first degree; as a concession, they were allowed to take their second degree in 1655 instead of 1656. Samuel Willis, the head of the class, is entered above, p. [15], as he was a fellow-commoner. Joseph Rowlandson, the sole member of the Class of 1652, is not found in the Steward’s Book. Sibley (i. 311–314) conjectures that he was expelled before the book was purchased, and later granted his degree as of 1652.

81 John Angier, A.B. August 9, 1653, A.M. 1655. Sibley (i. 325–327) could find nothing about him. It may be recorded here that he was the son of John Angier (1605–1677), B.A. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1625/26, and pastor of Denton, Lanes. Our student was baptized at Boston, Lines., July 13, 1629, and was admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, July 24, 1647, where “his conduct was so unsatisfactory that he had to make a confession of errors before obtaining ordination, 1657.” He transferred from Emmanuel to Harvard, returned to England in 1656, became vicar of Deane, Lanes., and died in 1675. Dictionary of National Biography; Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses; Oliver Heywood, Diaries.

82 Zeros appear to have been written over these figures, except that in the farthing column.

83 Thomas Shepard, A.B. August 9, 1653, A.M. 1655; Tutor for about two years from 1654; Fellow, 1654–73, and from 1675 to his death in 1677; minister of Charlestown.

84 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

85 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

86 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

87 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

88 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

89 Michael Barstow, of Watertown.

90 Crossed out in the original.

91 Cf. entry for same date in accounts of Nathaniel Utie, p. [107].

92 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

93 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

94 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

95 Samuel Nowell, of Charlestown, A.B. August 9, 1653, A.M. 1655, Fellow and Tutor in 1656.

96 Richard Hubbard, of Ipswich, A.B. August 9, 1653, A.M. 1655.

97 John Whiting, of Hartford, A.B. August 9, 1653, A.M. 1655; called “Whiting Senior” because there was another Whiting, of a different family, in the next class.

98 See p. [140].

99 Figures changed to zeros in the original.

100 Figures changed to zeros in the original.

101 Figures changed to zeros in the original.

102 An overflow debit account, entered by Chesholme on the credit page. Whiting is now called “Sir” because he had taken his first degree when these items were entered.

103 Crossed out in the original.

104 Samuel Hooker, of Hartford, A.B. August 9, 1653, A.M. 1655, Fellow and Tutor from 1654 to about 1656.

105 Another case of overflow debits inserted by Chesholme on the credit page. Hooker, like Whiting, had taken his A.B. when these debts were incurred.

106 Crossed out in the original.

107 John Stone, of Hartford, A.B. August 9, 1653. On March 10, 1654, “Johannes Stone, Sam. Presbyteri Novanglicani Primo-genitus, Cantabrigiâ Nov-Anglicani natus, postquam apud Nov-Anglos suos Artiū Baccalaureus,” was admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge (MS. Order Book, College Muniments, p. 142). On July 6, 1654, he was admitted Fellow of the College (Atwood’s MS. Aulae Pemb. Socii, “ϴ”), and there resided almost steadily (MS. Absence Books) until his death early in June, 1660 (Camb. Univ. Registry, Grace Book H, p. 221). On April 6, 1655, he supplicated as “Bacchalaureus in artibus in Academia Cantabrigiensi Nov–Angliæ” for incorporation B.A., which was granted (Univ. Registry, Supplicats, 1651–56), and in 1657 he incepted M.A. (Atwood).

108 Crossed out in the original.

109 More overflow debits, incurred after Stone had taken his A.B.

110 Samuel Green, the printer. L. R. Paige, History of Cambridge, p. 567.

111 William Thomson, of Braintree, A.B. August 9, 1653.

112 George Stirk or Starkey (A.B. 1646), the alchemist. See the paper on him by G. L. Kittredge in our Publications, xiii. 16–59, and the accounts of this study, id., xv. 9.

113 For an explanation of the two Classes of 1653, see the introduction to President Dunster’s Quadriennium Memoir. This class entered college a year later than the Class of August 9, but were required to wait the usual three years for the A.M.

114 Edward Rawson, of Boston.

115 Crossed out in the original.

116 Samuel Bradstreet, of Ipswich, A.B. August 10, 1653, A.M. 1656, Fellow and Tutor, 1656–57.

117 Nathaniel Utie; see p. [107].

118 Overflow debits, entered by Chesholme on the credit page.

119 Joshua Long, of Charlestown, A.B. August 10, 1653, A.M. 1656.

120 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

121 Samuel Whiting, of Lynn, A.B. August 10, 1653, A.M. 1656. The “Junior” was not intended to imply that he was any relation to John Whiting of the previous class, but that he was the junior of the two Whitings in academic seniority.

122 Joshua Moodey, of Newbury, A.B. August 10, 1653, A.M. 1656, Fellow and Tutor, 1656–58.

123 Joshua Ambrose, A.B. August 10, 1653; with his younger brother Nehemiah he was sent out from England to Harvard. His diploma, according to the second form printed in our Publications, xv. 23, dated “Coll: Harvardini Cantabr: in Nova-Anglia An: s[alutis] in 1654 primo Quintilis,” and signed by “Henricus Dunster Coll Præses,” and Mitchell, Oakes and Wigglesworth, “socii,” is recorded in Univ. Oxon. Arch., Qa 17. fol. 148, and is followed by the statement that upon publication thereof, with the proper grace obtained, “Joshua Ambrose admissus erat ad eundem Gradum, Statum et Dignitatem in Academiâ Oxoniensi quibus ornatus erat apud suos Cantabrigienses in Novâ Angliâ 31 die Mensis Majj 1655.” On March 6, 1655/56, he was admitted M.A. from Pembroke College. Id., fol. 188. He served as curate of West Derby-Walton, Lancs., and as vicar of Childwall, where he was buried in 1710. Matthews, Calamy Revised, p. 9.

124 Crossed out in the original.

125 Nehemiah Ambrose, younger brother and classmate of the preceding. He remained to take his second degree in 1656, and served as Fellow and Tutor from 1654 to 1657. He then went to England and received a curacy near his brother’s; he died in 1668. Matthews, Calamy Revised, p. 9.

126 Crossed out in the original.

127 Crossed out in the original.

128 Thomas Crosby, of Cambridge, A.B. August 10, 1653.

129 Crossed out in the original.

130 Crossed out in the original.

131 George Shove, of Rowley, Class of August 10, 1653, but took no degree. Sibley, i. 554.

132 Philip Nelson, of Rowley. He belonged, judging by the date of his entrance, with the Class of August 10, 1653; but the date of his Commencement charges here, as well as the Catalogue of Graduates, proves that he was not allowed to take his degree until 1654.

133 Crossed out in the original.

134 For an explanation of the few graduates in this class, and the lack of a Class of 1654, see the introduction to President Dunster’s Quadriennium Memoir. Charles (?) Brooke was the head of this class; his accounts are entered above, pp. [17–18], because he was a fellow-commoner.

135 Joseph Farnworth, Class of 1655, son of Joseph Farnworth, cooper, of Dorchester, who was admitted a freeman there in 1649. The son went to England before his class graduated, and on April 4, 1655, was presented by Hugh Peter to the rectory of South Hanningfield, Essex. He was ejected from that living in 1660; in 1672, he was a licensed Congregational preacher at Wapping. He “dyed of meer poverty” in London before August, 1677. Matthews, Calamy Revised, p. 191.

136 Edward Oakes, Class of 1655, but did not take a degree. He was called “Junior” because his elder brother, Urian, was still in college as resident A.B. when he entered Freshman. Sibley, i. 555.

137 Jonathan Willoughby, of Charlestown, Class of 1655, but took no degree. Sibley, i. 556.

138 Gershom Bulkeley, of Concord, A.B. 1655, A.M. 1658, probably Fellow and Tutor, 1658–61.

139 Probably a Bay Psalm Book.

140 Crossed out in the original.

141 Probably Nathaniel Utie, Class of 1655, but took no degree; son of Captain John Utie, of “Utimaria,” York County, Virginia, and stepson of Governor Richard Bennett of Virginia. He came to college from his parents’ new home on the Severn near Annapolis, Maryland. From 1658 to his death in 1675, Colonel Nathaniel Utie, as he was called from his rank in the militia, was a Burgess or Councillor of Maryland. He was owner of the plantation “Utielsy” on the Sassafras River, and of the Manor of Spesutia Island, near Havre de Grace. Sibley (i. 557) misread the name “Blye.” S. E. Morison, in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2 ser., xiii. 6–8.

142 Probably John Fownall, of Charlestown or Cambridge, Class of 1655, who died April 1, 1654, aged 18. Sibley, i. 557.

143 Crossed out in the original.

144 Crossed out in the original.

145 The new building, generally called “Goffe College.” Fownall seems to have been the first student occupant; all the others moved into Goffe in the quarter ending June 11, 1652.

146 Figures changed to zeros in the original.

147 Crossed out in the original.

148 John Hooke, of New Haven, Class of 1655. He took no degree at Harvard, but matriculated at Oxford from Magdalen College in 1652 and took a B.A. in 1654; he became rector of Broomshott, chaplain of the Savoy, and minister of Basingstoke. Sibley, i. 557–558; Notes and Queries, 10th ser., ix. 421–422; Matthews, Calamy Revised, pp. 273–274. His brother Walter’s accounts, mentioned on the debit side, are on p. [143].

149 Probably John Chickering, son of Henry Chickering, of Dedham, died July 28, 1676. Sibley, i. 558. Probably Class of 1655, although he entered a year earlier than most of his classmates.

150 Son of John and Ann Glover, of Dorchester, born 1637, died March 29, 1692; Class of 1655, but did not graduate.

151 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

152 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

153 Overflow debits, entered by Chesholme on the credit page.

154 Sibley (i. 559) did not succeed in identifying this member of the Class of 1655. He may have been a younger brother of Abraham Walver, A.B. 1647, who was probably sent out to Harvard from England; but the nature and variety of payments suggest that he was a local boy.

155 Crossed out in the original.

156 A William Ware, shoemaker of Dorchester and Boston, died in 1658.

157 Crossed out in the original.

158 Doubtless lockram, a kind of coarse cloth.

159 Doubtless William Woodward, of Dedham, “a young and powerful preacher,” who died there June 26, 1669. Sibley, i. 559. Class of 1655, but did not graduate.

160 William Brinsmead, of Dorchester, a member of the Class of 1655 who did not take a degree. He was ordained minister of Marlborough, October 3, 1666, and died there, unmarried, July 3, 1701. Sibley, i. 560; 2 Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc, iv. 298.

161 Crossed out in the original, and the figures in the credit column changed to zeros.

162 Crossed out in the original, and the figures in the credit column changed to zeros.

163 Probably John Gore, of Roxbury, born May 23, 1634, died June 26, 1705. Sibley, i. 560. Class of 1655, but did not graduate.

164 Ichabod Wiswall (note his first name under debits of March 11, 1652/53), of Dorchester, born about 1637, ordained minister of Duxbury in 1676, and sent to England in 1689 to obtain a charter for the Plymouth Colony; died July 23, 1700. Sibley, i. 560. Class of 1655, but did not graduate.

165 This heading refers to the Reverend Marmaduke Matthews, of Malden (M.A. Oxford 1627), father of the two brothers, Mordecai and Manasseh Matthews, whose accounts are on these pages. Mordecai was one of the two members of the Class of 1655 who took a degree. Manasseh may well be the “cler. fil.” who matriculated in the University of Oxford from Jesus College, August 9, 1658, and was afterward rector of Port Eynore and vicar of Swansea, whither Marmaduke Matthews had returned about 1654. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses.

166 Apparently intended to be crossed out in the original.

167 Eleazar Mather, the future minister of Northampton, and Increase Mather, the future president of the college. The date of their admission here recorded, in the quarter ending June 11, 1652, is at variance with Increase Mather’s statement in his autobiography, which places the date “in y^e latter end of y^e year 1651.” Nor do these pages include the accounts of Increase when he returned to college, after boarding for two or three years with the Reverend John Norton, to take his first degree.

168 Robert Paine, of Ipswich, A.B. 1656, A.M. 1659.

169 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

170 Overflow debits, entered by Chesholme on the credit page.

171 Overflow debits, entered by Chesholme on the credit page.

172 Shubael Dummer, of Newbury, A.B. 1656.

173 John Haynes, of Hartford, A.B. 1656. In the MS. Admission Book of Pembroke College, Cambridge, we find under date November 14, 1657: “Johannes Haynes Johannis Armigeri Filius natu tertius Cantabrigiæ; apud Nov–Anglos natus et ibidem in Academiâ educatus, et ad gradu Baccalaureatum promotus, huc translatus est, et admissus sub tutore M^ro Clifford.” On December 16, 1657, he was admitted “iisdem annis, gradu & ordine apud nos Cantabrigienses quibus est apud suos Cantabrigienses in Nov–Angliā” (Camb. Univ. Registry, MS. Supplicats, 1657–62); and in 1660 he proceeded M.A. He was chosen a Fellow of Pembroke College in 1658, and “Logick Lecturer” in 1660; but was forced to resign after the restoration of Charles II, on August 28, 1661. He appears to have enjoyed an ecclesiastical living at Hemmington, Suffolk, since 1658, and to have conformed and retained it in 1662; and to have exchanged it for a better one in 1668. He died April 25, 1671. Sibley, i. 475–476; Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses; Diary and Correspondence of John Worthington, pp. 101–102; MS. accounts of Fellows of Pembroke, designated “Η” and “Θ”; MS. Order Book, and MS. Register, iii “B. β. 3” in Pembroke College Muniments. The Roger and Joseph mentioned in his accounts were his brothers of the Class of 1658; see below, pp. [188] and [190].

174 Crossed out in the original.

175 John Eliot, A.B. 1656, A.M. 1659, eldest son of the “Apostle” Eliot, of Roxbury, of whom the Steward was probably thinking when he added the “Mr.” to the name. If the student had been a fellow-commoner, Chesholme would not have called him “sir Eliote” in July, 1659.

176 John Sasamon, a Massachusetts Indian from Ponkapoag, a protégé of the “Apostle” Eliot, later a teacher at Natick, and intermittently, from 1662, scribe and counsellor to King Philip, the Wampanoag chieftain. He reverted to his heathen gods, but later had a change of heart, and was “Murthered . . . after a most Barbarous Manner” by his fellows in 1675, after giving information on Philip’s war plans to the Governor of Plymouth. “The Present State of New-England with respect to the Indian War, . . . Faithfully composed by a Merchant of Boston” (London, 1675) begins by describing Sasamon as “About five or six Years since . . . brought up (amongst others) . . . in the Colledg at Cambridg.” Francis Baylies’s An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth (Boston, 1866, 11, part iii, p. 26) states that Sasamon had “formerly been at the college.” This entry under Eliot’s debits is the only direct evidence of Sasamon’s being an alumnus. As the date is prior to the erection of the Indian College, and as the debit is not heavy, it would seem that he merely spent a few weeks at Harvard College in the latter part of 1653.

177 Overflow debits, entered by Chesholme on the credit page.

178 Thomas Graves, of Charlestown, A.B. 1656, A.M. 1659, Fellow and Tutor, 1666–71.

179 Canvas.

180 Figures changed to zeros in the original.

181 Figures changed to zeros in the original.

182 Crossed out in the original.

183 A continuation of the account on p. [139], inserted here out of its original order.

184 Crossed out in the original.

185 This student has not been identified. He evidently remained in college but a few months. Sibley (i. 563) says, “Perhaps from Rowley,” since Joseph Jewett resided there in 1652.

186 P. [142] contains, after Brigham’s debits, a continuation of the accounts of John Glover, A.B. 1651. This portion of the page has been inserted after p. [46].

187 Walter Hooke, of New Haven, younger brother of John, of the Class of 1655. Late in 1654 or early in 1655, the MS. Admission Book of Pembroke College, Cambridge, records: “Gualterus Hooke Gulielmi Presbyteri filius natu tertius Axmouth in Agro Devoniensi in luce editus in Academiâ primô novanglicanâ educatus unde tertio post admissionè currente anno huc se contulit et admissus est ad eundē annū quo [?] ut apud suos Novanglicanos in ordinē sizatoru sub tutore M^ro Moses.” He did not matriculate in the university until 1656, received his B.A. in 1656/57 (his petition is in MS. Supplicats, 1657–62, Camb. Univ. Registry), and was placed 25th in the Ordo Senioritatis (Hist. Register of the Univ. of Cambridge, 1917, p. 408). In 1668, he was chaplain to the East India Company’s factory at Masulipatam, where he died in 1670. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses.

188 Doubtless a son of George Larremore, miller, of New Haven, the last payment being also recorded under the credits of Jeremiah Peck on p. [173]. Larremore was of the Class of 1656, but took no degree. Sibley (i. 563) misread the name “Sarremore” or “Seymour.”

189 Unidentified; Class of 1656, but did not graduate.

190 Samuel Megapolensis, Class of 1656, son of the Reverend John Megapolensis, pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at New Amsterdam. He left Harvard before graduating and matriculated at the University of Utrecht as a theological student in 1656 (Album Studiosorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae, Leyden, 1575–1875, pp. 51, 57), and then followed the medical course at the University of Leyden, matriculating November 14, 1661 (Album Studiosorum Academiae Lugduno Batavae, p. 494). For his later career, see Sibley, i. 564.

191 Samuel Torrey, of Weymouth, Class of 1656. He left Harvard without taking a degree, and was ordained minister of Weymouth. One of the most eminent and beloved ministers in New England, he was in 1682 elected president of Harvard College, but declined. Sibley, i. 564–567.

192 John Emerson, of Ipswich, A.B. 1656, A.M. 1659.

193 A continuation of the account on p. [154], inserted here out of its original order. The corresponding credit page, [181], is missing.

194 Zechariah Symmes, of Charlestown, A.B. 1657, A.M. 1660, Fellow and Tutor from 1657 to about 1663.

195 Zechariah Walker, Class of 1657, but did not graduate; minister successively at Jamaica, Long Island, Stratford and Woodbury, Connecticut. Sibley, i. 567.

196 Zechariah Brigden, of Charlestown, A.B. 1657, A.M. 1660, Fellow and Tutor from about 1657 to about 1660.

197 Entry cancelled, and the figures changed to zeros.

198 Crossed out in the original.

199 John Hale, A.B. 1657, A.M. 1660.

200 Goldin Moore, of Cambridge (1609–1698).

201 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

202 Crossed out in the original.

203 Probably Samuel Symonds, of Ipswich, who made a will on November 22, 1653, and presumably died shortly thereafter. Sibley, i. 568.

204 Elisha Cooke, of Boston, A.B. 1657, A.M. 1660.

205 John Cotton, of Boston, A.B. 1657, A.M. 1660. He graduated four places higher in the class than this.

206 John Whiting, of Lynn, A.B. 1657, a younger brother of Samuel Whiting, A.B. August 10, 1653. The MS. Supplicat Book at the University of Cambridge Registry records: “Placeat vobis ut Johannes Whiting eisdem sit hic apud nos Cantabrigienses ordine & gradu quibus eat apud suos Harvardinenses in Novâ Angliâ. Lect. et concess. 2 Julij. 1669.” He took his M.A. from Queens’ College a few days later, and was placed ninety-fourth in the Masters’ Ordo Senioritatis that year (Camb. Univ. Registry, Grace Book Z). Already ordained priest, August 22, 1662, he was rector successively of Butterwick and of Leverton, Lincs. He was buried October 4, 1689. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, iv. 394.

207 Probably Jonathan Eire or Ayer, of Watertown, born March 27, 1637; Class of 1657, but did not graduate. Sibley, i. 568.

208 Jeremiah Peck, of Boston, Class of 1657. He left college before graduation, and was married on November 12, 1656. He was schoolmaster at Guilford, Connecticut, and at New Haven; subsequently minister of Saybrook, Connecticut, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and Greenwich and Waterbury, Connecticut. Sibley, i. 569–570.

209 See p. [145].

210 Pp. [174–175], containing Peck’s debits and Gouge’s credits, are missing.

211 Possibly belonging to one of the numerous English nonconformist families named Gouge (cf. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, ii. 231–233); but more probably James Gooch, of Wells, Maine. See our Publications, vi. 90. “Gouge” was of the Class of 1657, but did not graduate.

212 George Constipell, as is ascertained by comparing the last credit with Samuel Shepard’s debits on p. [204]. The payment by Thomas Lake points to New Haven, where one Constable is mentioned in the list of landowners in 1641, together with Thomas Kimberley and George Larremore, who sent sons to Harvard. Constipell was in the Class of 1657, but did not graduate.

213 Pp. [178–181] are missing. They included Constipell’s debits and probably the accounts of Barnabas Chauncy, A.B. 1657, who is the last of the class in the Catalogue of Graduates. P. [182], containing a continuation of the accounts of John Emerson, A.B. 1656, has been inserted after p. [154].

214 Probably Jonathan Gatliffe, son of Thomas Gatliffe, miller, of Braintree and Dorchester (Sibley, i. 171). He may have been a late-comer in 1657, instead of head of the Class of 1658; but the dates of his first accounts correspond with those of the latter class.

215 Joseph Eliot, of Roxbury, A.B. 1658, A.M. 1661; “junior” because he had an elder brother in the Class of 1656.

216 Pp. [186–187], containing Eliot’s debits and Haynes’s credits, are missing.

217 Roger Haynes, of Hartford, Class of 1658, younger brother of John Haynes, A.B. 1656, and elder brother of Joseph Haynes, A.B. 1658 (see pp. [135] and [191]). “He sailed for England, and died early, perhaps on the voyage.” Sibley, i. 571.

218 This member of the Class of 1658 is unidentified. Although the nature of his payments suggests a local residence, no trace can be found of a Mutice or Meautys in New England.

219 Crossed out in the original.

220 Of Hartford, A.B. 1658, younger brother of his classmate Roger, and of John Haynes, A.B. 1656.

221 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

222 John, son of Major-General Daniel Denison, of Ipswich; Class of 1658, but did not graduate. He married Martha, daughter of Deputy-Governor Symonds, served as colleague minister at Ipswich, and died January 9 (N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., xxiii. 335), or in May (id., ix. 45–46), 1671. He was the father of John Denison, A.B. 1684.

223 Eleazar Bulkeley, of Concord, Class of 1658, but did not graduate; “junior” because a younger brother of Gershom Bulkeley, A.B. 1655; born about 1638. Sibley, i. 572, and MS. Bulkeley pedigree worked out by our associate Albert Matthews.

224 Crossed out in the original.

225 Benjamin Bunker, of Charlestown, A.B. 1658, A.M. 1661.

226 Pp. [198–201], containing Bunker’s debits, Barsham’s credits, and probably the accounts of Jonah Fordham, A.B. 1658, are missing.

227 John Barsham, of Watertown, A.B. 1658.

228 Samuel Shepard, of Cambridge, A.B. 1658, A.M. 1661; born 1641, son of the Reverend Thomas Shepard and half-brother of Thomas Shepard, A.B. August 9, 1653, and of Jeremiah Shepard, A.B. 1669. Fellow and Tutor, probably from about 1660 to 1663, and minister of Rowley from 1665 to his death, April 7, 1668. His place relative to Talcott’s was reversed at graduation. Samuel Shepard, A.B. 1685, was his son.

229 Samuel Talcott, of Hartford, A.B. 1658.

230 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

231 Chesholme’s pagination jumps from 206 to 257, the latter being the reverse side of the former. P. [257], containing the continuation of the accounts of Samuel Eaton, A.B. 1649, has been inserted after p. [9]. Pp. [258–261] are missing.

232 Probably Richard Bennett, Jr., son of the Cromwellian governor of Virginia, and of Mary Anne, widow of Captain John Utie. Note that in the first entry “Mr. Bennete” pays the debts of “vtye.” Nathaniel Utie, whom we have identified with “Vtye” of the Class of 1655, p. [107], was half-brother of Richard Bennett, Jr. The latter resided on the Severn in Maryland, served as Burgess from Ann Arundel County, married Henrietta Maria Neale, namesake of the Queen, and died in 1667. S. E. Morison, in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2 ser., xiii. 8–11.

233 Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Ipswich, A.B. 1659, eldest son of Richard Saltonstall, Esq., who had been a fellow-commoner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, grandson of Sir Richard Saltonstall, an alumnus of Clare College, Cambridge. Settled at Haverhill, he was local magistrate, colonel of militia, Assistant of the Bay Colony, Councillor of the Dominion of New England, and member of the Council of Safety in 1689. Appointed to the witchcraft tribunal of 1692, he resigned in disgust. He died May 21, 1707. He was the father of Gurdon Saltonstall, A.B. 1684, Governor of Connecticut, and of Richard and Nathaniel, both A.B. 1695. Sibley (ii. 8) concludes his account of Nathaniel Saltonstall by noting the members of this family in eight successive generations, all in the male line, who had graduated from Harvard. To this list, our associate Leverett Saltonstall, A.B. 1914, makes a ninth.

234 Vashti Bradish, who sold “comfortable penniworths” of beer at the westerly corner of Holyoke Street, opposite the College Yard. President Dunster’s amusing letter on her behalf is printed in S. E. Morison, Builders of the Bay Colony, pp. 203–204.

235 Samuel Alcock, of Roxbury, A.B. 1659, son of George Alcock, an alumnus of St. John’s College, Oxford, and half-brother of John Alcock, A.B. 1646.

236 Abijah or (as the Steward calls him) Habiell Savage, of Boston, A.B. 1659. Some accounts of his brother Ephraim, A.B. 1662, are also on this page.

237 Crossed out in the original, and the figures changed to zeros.

238 Samuel Willard, of Concord, A.B. 1659, A.M. at some time between 1682 and 1698 (our Publications, xxviii. 14, note 5); Fellow, 1692–1700, and vice-president of the college, 1700–1707.

239 Unidentified; Class of 1659, but did not graduate. Sibley (i. 574) notes that the nature of his payments suggests a relationship to Evan Thomas, of Boston, vintner.

240 Thomas Parish, of Cambridge, A.B. 1659. In the MS. Supplicats, 1657–62, at the University of Cambridge Registry, is this entry: “[Placeat] vobis ut Thomas Parrish in [artibus B]accalaureus sit hîc apud nos iisdem [annis, gr]adu & ordine quibus est apud suos [Cantab]rigienses in Nov Angliâ. Lect. et concess. 13 Aprilis 1660.” This proves that he was incorporated B.A. in the University of Cambridge.

241 John Hagborne, of Roxbury, Class of 1659, but took no degree. Sibley, i. 574.

242 Pp. [276–279], containing Hagborne’s debits, Rogers’s credits, and probably the accounts of Samuel Cheever, A.B. 1659, are missing.

243 Of Ipswich, A.B. 1659.

244 Samuel Belcher, of Ipswich, A.B. 1659. In the Salutatory Oration at Commencement, 1662, the orator comments on the fact that no candidates for the A.M. have presented themselves, since rural ministers who have obtained parishes when scarcely fledged do not think it worth while to take a second degree. Our Publications, xxviii. 14, 23.

245 Samuel Seabury, of Boston, Class of 1659, but did not graduate. Sibley, i. 574.

246 Of Charlestown, son of Captain John Alline, a shipowner. Sibley, i. 574. Possibly at the foot of 1659, but the date of his entrance points to the Class of 1660.

247 Nathaniel Collins, of Cambridge, A.B. 1660, A.M. 1663. His place was interchanged with that of Bradstreet at graduation.

248 Simon Bradstreet, of Ipswich, A.B. 1660, A.M. 1663.

249 Bradstreet’s credits were entered on p. [329], which is inserted immediately below, out of its original order. More debits were probably on p. [330], which is missing.

250 Crossed out in the original.

251 Samuel Eliot, of Roxbury, A.B. 1660, A.M. 1663, Fellow and Tutor, 1663–64. Called “terses” (tertius) elsewhere in his accounts because his elder brothers John (1656) and Joseph (1658) were still in college.

252 Jonathan Curwin, of Salem, Class of 1660, but did not graduate. Sibley, i. 575.

253 The N.E.D. gives “satinisco,” also called mock-velvet, an inferior variety of satin.

254 The students’ accounts of the Class of 1660 are here interrupted by Steward Chesholme’s own accounts with the college.

255 Chives, and tops of other herbs? See N.E.D., “sive,” and “top,” sb^I5.

256 For the remainder of his own accounts with the college, Chesholme reversed his usual order of credits and debits pages.

257 Probably Nathaniel Duncan (often spelled “Duncum”), of Dorchester, merchant and accountant.

258 Probably Faithful Rouse, of Charlestown, who left a legacy of £2 10s to the college in 1664, and a person named Cleves or Clews.

259 The latter half of this page is crossed out with a large X.

260 The steward’s version of “Haynes.”

261 Seabury.

262 Sylvanus Walderne, son of Richard Waldern or Waldren, of Dover, N. H., probably of the Class of 1661; died in college. See our Publications, xxviii. 3, 307–308.

263 Colonel William Crowne, Proprietor of Nova Scotia, father of John Crowne, Class of 1661. Sibley, i. 577.

264 Pewter.

265 Figures in the original changed to zeros.

266 Manasseh Armitage, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, A.B. 1660. While in college, he forged a deed of gift of lands from his father, who advertised the fact. Sibley, ii. 68; N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., lv. 299.

267 Joseph Cooke, of Boston, A.B. 1660, younger brother of Elisha Cooke, A.B. 1657.

268 Unidentified; Class of 1660, but did not graduate.

269 Of Woburn, A.B. 1660, son of Thomas Carter (M.A. Cambridge), minister of Woburn, who appears from the son’s accounts to have raised pigs on the side.

270 Shoat.

271 Crossed out in the original.

272 Of Boston, Class of 1660, but did not graduate. Sibley, i. 576.

273 Peter Bulkeley, of Marshfield, A.B. 1660, A.M. 1663, Fellow and Tutor, 1663–66. Sibley (ii. 68) is entirely incorrect with regard to his birth and parentage. He was born at Concord, January 3, 1640/41, the son of Edward Bulkeley, who in 1642 became minister of Marshfield, and grandson of Peter Bulkeley (1583–1659), M.A. Cambridge 1608, the pioneer minister of Concord. Information from Albert Matthews.

274 Crossed out in the original.

275 This page combines the accounts of two brothers, James and Moses Noyes, A.B. 1659. The probable explanation of their position here is that they entered together in June, 1656, and were promoted to the Sophomore class. They graduated at the foot of their class, the usual fate of newcomers.

276 The entries under this heading are overflow debits, entered by Chesholme on the credit page.

277 Richard and William Whittingham, two brothers from Ipswich. Richard did not graduate; William took his A.B. with the Class of 1660, and in a much higher seniority than is his here.

278 This student, apparently at the end of the Class of 1660, did not graduate, and has not been identified.

279 The first part of this page, containing a continuation of the accounts of Thomas Graves, A.B. 1656, has been inserted after p. [139].

280 John Crowne, probably head of the Class of 1661, but did not graduate; later he became a typical Restoration dramatist. See Dictionary of National Biography.

281 Pp. [324–327] are missing. They contained Crowne’s debits, Brigden’s and Meare’s credits, and, as Chesholme’s index shows, the accounts of John Bellingham, A.B. 1661, and those of one “Simes,” possibly a continuation of the accounts of Zechariah Symmes, A.B. 1657.

282 Zechariah Brigden, A.B. 1657.

283 Probably John Meares, of Boston, Class of 1661, but did not graduate. Sibley, i. 577.

284 P. [329], containing the continuation of the credits of Simon Bradstreet, A.B. 1660, has been inserted after p. [289]. P. [330], probably containing additional Bradstreet debits, and p. [331], containing Weld’s and Stoddard’s credits, are missing.

285 Daniel Weld, of Roxbury, A.B. 1661, and Solomon Stoddard, of Boston, A.B. 1662. As Sibley explains (ii. 89), these two were put on the same page because Stoddard’s father, Anthony, married for second wife Weld’s widowed mother.

286 Joseph Cooke, of Cambridge says Sibley (ii. 91), A.B. 1661; not a brother of the other Cookes in these accounts.

287 Crossed out in the original.

288 Of Lynn, A.B. 1661, A.M. 1664, Fellow and Tutor for about two years; a younger brother of Samuel Whiting, A.B. August 10, 1653, and of John Whiting, A.B. 1657.

289 Caleb Watson, of Roxbury, A.B. 1661, A.M. 1664.

290 Of Cambridge, A.B. 1661.

291 A.B. 1661.

292 Of Watertown, A.B. 1661.

293 Of Boston, Class of 1661, but did not graduate. The entries signed “Charles Chauncy” are in the president’s hand. Sibley, i. 578.

294 Ensign John Sherman, who succeeded Chesholme as steward. Our Publications, xv. clxi.

295 Eleazar Kimberly, of New Haven, Class of 1661, but did not graduate; later Secretary of Connecticut Colony. Sibley, i. 579.

296 Wait Still Winthrop, fellow-commoner and head of the Class of 1662, but not a graduate. Born in Boston, February 27, 1641/42, son of John Winthrop, Jr., later Governor of Connecticut, and Elizabeth Reade; grandson of Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts. In 6 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., iii. 424–426, is a letter from Tutor Thomas Dudley (A.B. 1651) in Cambridge to John Winthrop at “Pequot” (New London) about preparing Wait and his younger brother Fitz-John for college. The latter, apparently, never entered. Wait Winthrop became a merchant in Boston; Councillor of the Province from 1691 to his death, November 7, 1718; also Chief Justice of the Province and Major-General of Militia. He was the father of John Winthrop, F.R.S. (A.B. 1700).

297 Of Hartford, Class of 1662, but did not graduate. Sibley, i. 579–580.

298 Pp. [352–355] are missing. In addition to the remainder of Stone’s and Tompson’s accounts, they doubtless included those of John Holyoke, A.B. 1662.

299 Benjamin Tompson, of Braintree, A.B. 1662. The accounts of Solomon Stoddard, who was next in seniority, are on p. [332].

300 Of Concord, Class of 1662, but did not graduate.

301 John Fleming, of Watertown, Class of 1662, but did not graduate.

302 Of Boston, son of John Oliver (d 1646); baptized April 21, 1644; Class of 1662, but did not graduate.

303 Pp. [362–363] are missing.

304 Perhaps of Fairfield, Connecticut, 1640–1698; not a graduate. Sibley, ii. 581.

305 Of Cambridge, born 1639; Class of 1662, but did not graduate. President Chauncy, in “A Faithful Relation” of some moneys entrusted to him for Indian education (MS. owned by Mrs. Francis Stoddard), says: “I made agreements with two scholars & their Parents, & payed them to the value of eight pounds per annum, one of them also was maintained three yeares by myselfe in the Colledge (that is Mr. Holmes now Minister at Duxbury). . . .” He died there in office in 1675. Cf. our Publications, xxii. 70.

306 Isaac Addington, Jr., of Boston, born January 22, 1645; Class of 1662, but took no degree. Speaker of the House, Assistant, Secretary of the Colony and of the Province, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the Province. Sibley, i. 581–582; Sewall’s Diary.

307 Moses Fiske, of Chelmsford, A.B. 1662, A.M. 1665. The “Mr.” doubtless refers to his father, the Reverend John Fiske. The two entries on the credit side are not in Chesholme’s hand.

308 Class of 1662, unidentified. Ephraim Savage should follow, but his accounts are on p. [268], with those of his brother Abijah.

309 Of Cambridge, A.B. 1662, A.M. 1665.

310 Sibley (i. 582) supposes this to have been a continuation of the accounts of Peter Bulkeley, A.B. 1660. It is much more probably the account of Peter Bulkeley, of Concord, born August 12, 1643, when his father, the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, was an old man. Thus he was more than two years younger than his nephew Peter of the Class of 1660. “Little Peter” did not graduate. He lived until 1691. Information furnished by Albert Matthews.

311 Pp. [378–379] are missing.

312 Samuel Cobbet, of Ipswich, A.B. 1663.

313 John Rayner, of Plymouth, A.B. 1663, A.M. 1666. Note his witty tripos verses in Sibley, ii. 133–134, translated in New England Quarterly, vi. 537–538.

314 Benjamin Blakeman, of Guilford, Connecticut, A.B. 1663.

315 Pp. [384–387] are missing.

316 Thomas Mighill, of Rowley, A.B. 1663, A.M. 1666.

317 Nathaniel Cutler, of Charlestown, A.B. 1663.

318 P. [391] is blank; pp. [392–395] are missing; pp. [396–399] are blank; pp. [400–401] are missing.

319 As distinct from the “Visible Stock or Treasury of the Colledge,” for which the Steward was required by the Orders of 1650 (our Publications, xv. 32) to make annual accounting, this “Cuntrey Stock” is an account of receipts from the “college corn” contributions recommended by the New England Confederation in 1644, together with the Newgate annuity, and a few miscellaneous receipts. The credit side shows the disbursement of these contributions, which are also summarized in the Corporation Records (our Publications, xv. 180).

320 P. [404] is blank, and the few leaves that followed are missing.

321 In Louis Franklin Snow, The College Curriculum in the United States (Teachers College, Columbia University, 1907), pp. 22–30. Dr. Snow’s Latin text is faulty, and his translation in places unintelligible. The document was presented to the university in 1871 by Samuel Dunster, of Attleboro, a descendant of President Dunster.

322 1 Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc, viii. 12.

323 The formula is simplified in later Triennials, and thus appears in the 1885 Quinquennial: “ad Secundum Gradum admissi fuere Anno 1655: Baccalaurei vero sequentes, 1656, ut moris est.”

324 Early Harvard Broadsides, pp. 17–18; reprinted from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s., xxiv. 264–304. Sibley (i. 358) seems to have been responsible for the mistake of regarding the two classes of 1653 as mere portions of the same class.

325 We have not the dates of entrance of this class in the Steward’s Book, since Steward Chesholme only purchased it in 1651; but under the names of six of the nine members the first entry is a “balance” dated March 1649/50, evidently carried over from an earlier book. Hence these men must have entered college in the summer or fall of 1649.

326 The first entries of accounts under the names of seven of the nine members of this class (including one who left college before graduating) are dated between June and December, 1650.

327 C. Mather, Magnalia (1702 ed.), Bk. iv. 135. Mather gives the number leaving as seventeen; the MS. Steward’s accounts show only fifteen members of the Class of 1655 who took no degrees. But, it may be asked, what of Joseph Rowlandson, recorded in the Catalogue of Graduates as graduating A.B. in 1652, and what of Philip Nelson, who constituted the graduating class of 1654? Rowlandson’s name does not appear in the Steward’s accounts, nor is there any blank or mutilated page where it might have been entered. Every other graduate of the period, save three Chauncys and one other who probably boarded with the president, is found in the Steward’s accounts. The inference is, then, that Rowlandson studied privately, and was given his degree in 1652 in order to make a bachelors’ Commencement that year. As for Nelson, his dates in the Steward’s accounts indicate that he entered with the Class of August 10, 1653; but, for some reason not recorded, he was required to reside an additional year before taking his A.B. (cf. rule 3 of the Overseers’ Orders of 1650 in our Publications, xv. 190–191). Of the two non-graduates mentioned by name in the Magnalia, one, William Brinsmead, was of the Class of 1655, the other, Samuel Torrey, was of 1656.

328 MS., American Antiquarian Society. The Steward’s Book shows, however, only six members of Mather’s class who did not take their degrees. Mather was writing in 1713, and either confused some of the “strikers” of 1655 with his own classmates, or relied for the figures on his son’s Magnalia. Cf. C. Mather, Parentator, p. 14.

329 Our Publications, xv. xx.

330 Of the seventeen accounts of members of this class in the Steward’s Book, twelve begin at some date between June and September, 1651; four begin earlier, and one in December, 1651. Another differentiation between this class and the preceding one in the Steward’s Book is the payment of an entrance fee of one shilling.

331 The Board of Overseers in 1653 and 1654 included among the lay members Simon Bradstreet and Daniel Denison, both Cambridge alumni. All the clerical members were Cambridge alumni, except Richard Mather, who had spent about a year at Oxford. The Fellows of the Corporation in 1654 (excepting Thomas Danforth, the treasurer) were recent Harvard graduates, who would probably not have needed so elaborate an argument to fall in line with their president.