Benjamin Dolbear, of Boston, a number of Medical works.

Dr. Miles Whitworth, Book of Sanson's Maps.

1765. Rev. Joseph Sewall, D. D., many books, valued at £ 20 sterling. 1771. Benjamin Franklin, LL. D., Baskerville's Virgil, Maseres's Mathematical Treatises, Hoovegeen de Particulis, a French Translation of Franklin's Philosophical Works, and many other valuable books, at different times.

1774. Andrew Eliot, Rousseau upon Education.

John Ryland, Scheme of Infidelity ruined for ever.
Joseph Greenleaf, Burn's Justice of the Peace.

Rev. Dr. Byles, his Sermons.

Rev. Mr. Stevens, Gravesande's Philosophy. 2 vols. 8vo.
Samuel Winthrop, 5 vols. of Political Disquisitions.

The General Court, a curious synagogue lamp, a Jewish priest's
cap, and many valuable books in the Hebrew and Portuguese
languages.

1778. John Wyeth, Esq., Melancthon's Loci Communes, 1 vol. 8vo.,
Ainsworth on the Pentateuch, 1 vol. 4to, and Symson's Lexicon,

1 vol. fol.

The General Court, many books, from sequestered libraries of the
Royalists.

James Winthrop, History of George the Third.

John Cuming, Esq., curious present of a representation of Moses,
the Jewish Lawgiver, in a coffin, which some years since was
brought from Rome, and of a Dutch Testament.

Elias Parkman, Capt., valuable present of the Universal History of
Arts and Sciences, 2 vols. 4to.

Rev. Ebenezer Turell, legacy, received of Dr. Tufts, his executor,
Dr. Colman's Parable of the Ten Virgins, with the Author's Life
by Mr. Turell, 8vo., a large Magnet cased with silver, and a brush
of spun glass.

1779. Hon. Theodore Atkinson, of New Hampshire, for the purchase of
books, most useful in the study of the Civil, Statute, and Commer-
cial Law of England,
£100 0 0
Thomas Cushing, Esq., a copperplate copy of the first sample of
printing in Holland.

Professor Wigglesworth, a number of Pamphlets, published by the
late Rev. Professor Wigglesworth, D. D.

Samuel Barrett, Esq., a copy of a Declaration of Rights, and form
of Constitution, as reported by the Committee of Convention, with

a list of the names of the Committee.

John Bartlett, student, a copy of Lord Chesterfield's Letters.

APPENDIX,

No. XXV.

Donations

to the College in the eighteenth century,

and before 1780.

APPENDIX,

No. XXV.

Donations to the College in the eighteenth century,

and before 1780.

Names of Donors, preserved in Flynt's Alphabetical List of Benefactors, the date of whose donations do not appear on the College books.

Rev. Richard Baxter, many books.

Rev. James Peirce, of Exon, Newton's Optics.
Rev. Benjamin Colman, D. D., a number of books.
Joseph Hill, many books.

Rev. Increase Mather, D. D., many books.

Rev. Mr. Morris, Morris's Sermons.

Rev. Mr. Cornthwaite, Cornthwaite's Treatise on the Lord's Day.
Henry Newman, Esq., gave a number of books and procured more.

Thomas Bannister, a number of books.

Mr. Hollister, of London, a number of valuable books.

William Wooley, of Hackney, Barrow's Works, 2 vols. folio.

P. Du Cane, Esq., a number of valuable books.

Benjamin Avery, LL. D., valuable books at different times.

Rd. Holmes, of London, Middleton's Free Inquiry, and Hermippus
Redivivus.

Dr. Mapletoft, two copies of Mapletoft's Principles.

Rev. Peter Bulkley, many books.

John Jekyll, Esq., of Boston, Clarendon's History, and other books.
Hugh Hall, Esq., books at different times.

Rev. Mr. Ward, of Wenham, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity.

3. Donations in Land.

1700. William Stoughton, Lieut.-Gov., for Stoughton Hall, £1,000 0 0 1702. William Stoughton, Lieut.-Gov., by legacy, 27 acres of land in Dorchester.

Hon. Thomas Danforth, by legacy, three leases of land in Framingham. 1715. The General Court freely gave all the Province lands within the bounds of Hopkinton to the Trustees of the legacy of Edward Hopkins, for the same good and pious ends for which that part of Hopkinton called Maguncog was purchased.

1718. Proprietors of Rutland, 250 acres of land in Rutland.

1719. General Court, 250 acres of land in Lunenburg.

General Court, 250 acres of land in Townsend.

1720. Col. Samuel Brown, by legacy, about 200 acres of land in Hopkinton.
1762. General Court, one sixty-fourth part of each of twelve townships
lying between the Penobscot and St. Croix.

General Court, one sixty-fourth part of a township between the great
Ossapee and the mountains above Pigwacket.

1764. General Court, one sixty-fourth part of six townships east of Saco

river.

1768. General Court, one eighty-third of a township northward of Andros

coggin river.

1770. General Court, one eighty-fourth part of a township at a place

called Eastern Bay.

No. XXV.

1771. General Court, one eighty-fourth part of each of five townships, east APPENDIX, of Saco river. 1774. General Court, two sixty-fourth parts of a tract of land containing Donations 11,000 acres, east of Saco river.

4. Donations in Specific Articles.

1700. Rev. Charles Morton, of Charlestown, mathematical instruments,

and curiosities.

1720. Col. Samuel Brown, by legacy, plate,

1726. Friend of Thomas Hollis, Hebrew and Greek types,

£60 0 0

39 0 0

1736. Hon. Mr. Stoughton, College plate, large bowl with a cover, 48 oz. William Vassall, Fellow Commoner, one tankard, 20 oz.

John Vassall, Fellow Commoner, one tankard, 20₫ oz.

1743. Henry Frankland, ring dial and spirit level.

1744. Colin Campbell, Esq., transit instrument.

quadrant at a large expense.

1747. Col. John Vassall, a reflecting telescope.

Also he repaired the

1748. Admiral Warren, fine large reflecting telescope, costing 16 guineas. Francis Archibald, human skeleton.

William Davis, the human veins and arteries filled with wax.

1755. Andrew Oliver, Jr., Esq., a pair of large globes.

1756. Christopher Kilby, Esq., spirit level, with telescopic sights and a curious apparatus proper for such an instrument.

1757. Sir Henry Frankland, Bart., small electrical apparatus, and a number of books.

1758. Hon. James Bowdoin, a valuable microscope.

1760. Ezekiel Goldthwait, Hadley's Octant.

Hon. Thomas Hancock, a fine reflecting telescope.

1762. Gilbert Harrison, of London, horizontal magnetic needle.

John Hancock, Esq., curious dipping needle.

1763. Hon. Jonathan Belcher, Lt.-Gov. of Nova Scotia, solar microscope,
and celestial and terrestrial globes.

Samuel Dean, A. M., Tutor, Stephen Sewall, A. B., and Andrew
Elliot, Jun., A. B., clock for the use of the Buttery, valued at £4.

1772. Hon. John Hancock, a curious Coralline on its natural bed.
1778. Rev. Mr. Fayerweather, to the Museum, pair of Indian moccasins
and Indian stockings, which belonged to Hendrick, head warrior
of the Western Indians, in alliance with the English; who fell in
a battle fought by Sir William Johnson, near Lake George, in the
year 1775.

Samuel Clap, articles for the Museum.

Brigadier Titcomb, of Newburyport, articles for the Museum. 1779. Mr. Peck, of Boston, curious crystallizations of marine salts. Dr. Josiah Otis, of Bridgewater, a number of curious animals for the Museum.

Jonathan Tufts, articles for the Museum.

to the College in the eighteenth century, and before 1780.

APPENDIX,
No. XXVI.

Letters

from Pro-
fessors

Winthrop,
Wiggles-

worth, and
Sewall.

LETTERS FROM PROFESSORS WINTHROP, WIGGLESWORTH,
AND SEWALL, TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS,
STATING THEIR SERVICES AND PECUNIARY EMBARRASS-
MENTS.

"To Edward Sheaffe, Esq., chairman of a Committee of the Hon.
House of Representatives.

SIR,

"Cambridge, 28th December, 1764.

"I have received your letter, by favor of Joseph Lee, Esq., desiring an account of the services and perquisites attending my office, in consequence of a vote of the Honorable House of Representatives in their last session. In answer to which I beg leave to inform you and the other gentlemen of the committee,

"1. That, according to the statutes of my honored Founder, my province in the College is, to instruct the students in a system of Natural Philosophy, and a course of Experimental, in which is to be comprehended Pneumatics, Hydrostatics, Mechanics, Statics, Optics, &c.; in the elements of Geometry, together with the doctrines of Proportion; the principles of Algebra, Conic Sections, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, with general principles of Mensurations of Planes and Solids; in the principles of Astronomy and Geography, viz. the doctrine of the sphere, the use of the globes; the calculations of the motions and phenomena of the heavenly bodies according to the different hypotheses of Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, and Copernicus, with the general principles of Dialling; the division of the world into various kingdoms, with the use of the maps, and sea charts; and the arts of Navigation and Surveying. That my services are, to read once a week (times of vacation excepted) publicly in the chapel to all the students on such topics, relating to the science of Mathematics, Natural or Experimental Philosophy, as I judge most necessary and useful, but always distinct or different from my private lectures; and to read my private lectures on the several parts of the Mathematics, Natural and Experimental Philosophy, two days in the week, so as to go through the whole circle of these sciences in two years. But the course of Philosophical Experiments is to be repeated at least once a year. (And I may observe, that this course takes up near thirty lectures, over and above the public and private lectures of every week.) I am also to be

No. XXVI.

from Pro

fessors Winthrop, Wigglesworth, and

Sewall.

ready to endeavour to clear, at any time, by conversation with my APPENDIX, pupils, such difficulties as lie upon their minds, relating to the several parts of the Mathematics, Natural and Experimental Philosophy. Letters These are the services required of me by my founder, who has restrained me from following other business, that would interfere with this; and obliges me, on the day of inauguration, in the presence of the Reverend the President and Fellows of the College, and the Honorable and Reverend Overseers thereof, publicly to promise to discharge the trust reposed in me with diligence and fidelity, and to the advantage of the students, and to consult the good of the College, in every other respect, to promote and encourage true piety and godliness, and religiously to observe the statutes of my founder. All which things I have endeavoured to perform with integrity and good conscience for the space of twenty-six years; the whole of my time being devoted to these services.

"2. As to the second head of inquiry, there are no perquisites attending my office. It is true, that the pious founder of this Professorship appointed a salary for it; which proving insufficient for a maintenance, the government of the College have, from time to time,* done what they could for my support and encouragement, but this notwithstanding for several years, together with what the General Court were pleased to allow me, which I thankfully acknowledge, my income was so scanty, that I was obliged to contract considerable debts for the necessary support of my family. And, in truth, the whole that I have ever received for my office, both from the College and the government, though managed with the strictest economy I was capable of, has not been adequate to the expense of a growing family. Upon a proper representation of these things to the Honorable House, which I hope the committee will be so good to me as to do in such manner as they shall think best, I persuade myself the House will see the necessity of continuing their grant to me; without which I see not how my family can be subsisted in my present business; being assured that the College is not able to do any thing further for me.

"With great respect to the gentlemen of the committee, I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

"JOHN WINTHROP,"

"The last settlement made my salary, including Mr. Hollis's, to be £97, 14s. 10d."