APPENDIX, a fresh application from the Professors of the University, who are No. XXIII. in great distress for want of the pay they should have received Extract from a letter of Treasurer Storer to cock. twelve months ago, and for which they are now paying interest, and their wants cannot be supplied from the College treasury. "You will easily conceive, Sir, the great disappointment to the John Han- University from the usual grants being withheld, and the distress the officers must suffer on that account, being obliged to borrow money for the support of their families; you will therefore, I doubt not, relieve them, by paying the interest of your bond, and, if you will add a part of the principal too, you will lay a fresh obligation on the University." - Boston, April 4th, 1791. Extract from the Will of No. XXIV. - See p. 213. AN EXTRACT FROM THE WILL OF EZEKIEL HERSEY, LATE (Proved 12th December, 1770.) "Also I give, devise, and bequeath to the Corporation of Harvard College, in Cambridge, and to their successors, to be paid to them by my executors, hereafter named, in two years after my decease, one thousand pounds, lawful money, the interest thereof to be by them appropriated towards the support of a Professor of Anatomy and Physic, and for that use only." "At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, November 9th, 1772. "Mrs. Derby, lately the relict of Ezekiel Hersey, Esq., of Hingham, physician, and Executrix of his last Will and Testament, having this day paid into the College treasury one thousand pounds, bequeathed by him to the Corporation of Harvard College, and to their successors, the interest thereof to be by them appropriated towards the support of a Professor of Anatomy and Physic, and for that use only'; "The Corporation take this occasion to express their grateful sense of the regard Dr. Hersey hath showed to the interests of learning, in this generous bequest towards an institution long wished for in this society, and the great importance of which, from his eminent knowledge, and large experience in his profession, he thoroughly understood; an institution which will do honor to his memory in all future generations. No. XXIV. They beg leave to assure the executrix, and the particular APPENDIX, friends of the founder, that no care shall be wanting on their part to discharge the trust reposed in them, in a manner the most honorary to their most worthy benefactor, and conducive to the benevolent ends he had in view. "At the same time they return their sincere thanks to Mrs. Derby for the obliging manner in which she hath fulfilled the Will of the deceased; and desire that she would favor them with the loan of Dr. Hersey's portrait, that a copy may be taken, at the expense of the College, and be placed in the Philosophy Chamber, with the portraits of the founders of the other professorships. "Voted, That the money now received be immediately put out to interest, on good security, and that the interest be from time to time added to the principal, until by such addition, or the generosity of others, a sufficient fund shall be established for the maintenance of a Professor." Extract from the Ezekiel DONATIONS TO THE COLLEGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CEN- These donations were in money, land, books, or specific articles. Donations to the College in the century, and before HOLLIS. The donations of the family of Hollis, from their number and eighteenth value, deserve to be separately exhibited. The benefactions of the first Thomas Hollis began in 1719, and, in 1726, amounted, in money, to 1780. £4,840 0 0 This sum embraces foundations for a Professorship of Divinity, and another of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, with a salary of £80 for each Professor; for ten scholarships, of £10 each; and for a salary of £ 10 for the Treasurer of the College. In 1728, he presented the College with a complete apparatus for experimental philosophy, amounting to £126 10s. sterling 168 13 4 Amount, £ 5,008 13 4 * All previous donations will be found in Appendix of Vol. I., No. I. and No. XXIII. For these, see above, No. XI. APPENDIX, Besides which he gave, in 1722, "an elegant edition of Mil No. XXV. Donations to the College in the eighteenth century, and before 1780. ton's Poetical Works"; in 1724, two large packets of valuable books; in 1725, many other valuable books; and, in 1726, he sent another box of books, and three boxes of Greek and Hebrew types, a present from a friend, at his suggestion. In 1724, John Hollis, brother of the above, gave books to the value of £ 64 sterling. In 1731-2, Nathaniel Hollis, another brother, gave, for the In 1734 he gave also a box of books. £ 100 sterling. £200 sterling. In 1732, Thomas Hollis, son of Nathaniel Hollis, gave In 1758-9, Thomas Hollis of Lincoln's Inn, son of the last- In 1764, he presented sixty-four volumes of valuable books, For the other benefactions of this Thomas Hollis, made in The donations of the other benefactors were as follows. 1. Donations in money. 1698. Eliakim Hutchinson, £10 annually, from 1698 to 1717, 100 0 0 *1715. Major William Brown, of Salem, by legacy, *1717. Rev. William Brattle, of Cambridge, by legacy, *1720. Col. Samuel Brown, General Court, Massachusetts Hall, *1722. Rev. Henry Gibbs, of Watertown, by legacy, Madam Mary Saltonstall, 250 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 * The income of those marked with an asterisk is appropriated for scholars of need and merit, in some instances with a preference founded on relationship or local circumstances. 1,000 0 1726. Richard Sprague, by legacy, given in 1703, received 1727. Rev. Thomas Cotton, of London, for President's salary, 100 *1730. Madam Mary Saltonstall, by legacy *1733. Madam Dorothy Saltonstall, widow of John Frizzle, Esq., 16 0 0 1739. Hon. Thomas Hutchinson, by legacy, 1740. Col. Goffe, by legacy, (not paid) Daniel Henchman, 100 ounces of silver, the income to be for the Hollisian Professor of Divinity. 1743. Rev. Edward Holyoke, (President,) 300 0 0 200 0 0 1744. Mrs. Holden and her two daughters, Holden Chapel, 1747. Daniel Henchman, for the Hollisian Professorship of Divinity, 113 6 8 400 0 0 (old tenor) 250 0 0 1750. Hon. Paul Dudley, by a legacy for an annual Lecture, 133 6 8 Henry Flynt, Esq., by legacy, income for four Tutors, 93 6 8 Henry Flynt, 50 dollars, 15 10 0 Henry Sherburne, of Portsmouth, N. H., (old tenor) 100 0 0 1758. Daniel Henchman, Esq., merchant, the income to be for the use of the Hollisian Professor of Mathematics, 66 13 4 1762. Stephen Sewall, A. B., the income for the Professor of 1764. Thomas Hancock, Esq., of Boston, for a Professorship of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, . 1766. Edward Kitchen, by legacy, 1770. Rev. John Barnard, of Marblehead, by legacy, APPENDIX, No. XXV. 1771. Nicholas Boylston, Esq., for the Professorship of Rhet oric and Oratory, by legacy, £1,500 0 0 1716. General Nicholson, Stanhope's Paraphrase and Comment 1724. Samuel Gerrish, books valued at Dr. Isaac Watts, a number of books. Rev. Joseph Hussey, a valuable donation in books. 1725. John Guyse, D. D., his own works, and several other volumes. and Gronovius, 28 vols. folio. 1726. Dr. Richard Mead, Thuanus's History, 5 vols. folio. D. James, Esq., a handsome copy of Thucydides. Drs. Watts and Guyse, History of Popery, 2 vols. 4to. 1736. Rev. Samuel Mather, Dr. Franckius's works. 1743. Chambers Russell, Esq., Chambers's Cyclopædia. 1747. Judge Dudley, a 4to Bible. 100 0 0 1748. Society for propagating the Gospel, large donation of valuable books. William Vassall, Esq., Albinus's Twelve Tables of the Human Capt. Le Gallais, Grove's Moral Philosophy. 1752. William James, Esq., of Jamaica, Medical books, worth 25 0 0 Capt. Francis Wells, Pemberton's View of Newton's Philosophy. 1756. Rev. Joseph Stennet, 4 vols. of Sermons by his late father, and one volume of his own Sermons. 1757. Sir Henry Frankland, Bart., several books. 1758. Rev. John Barnard, of Marblehead, 2 vols. of his Sermons. Rev. Dr. Hales, and Rev. Dr. Thomas Wilson, 29 copies of Dr. Hales's Lectures, and 50 copies of Wilson's Instruction for the Indians, and 100 sets of Leland's View of Deistical Writers. 1759. His Exc. Gov. Pownall, Leland's View of Deistical Writers. 1761. Lieut.-Gov. Dummer, by legacy for books, £50 sterling. 1763. Hon. Jonathan Belcher, Lieut.-Gov. of Nova Scotia, two folio vols. |