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New England Life in the Eighteenth Century: Representative Biographies from Sibley’s Harvard Graduates
Harvard University Press, 1995 Paper: 978-0-674-61251-8 Library of Congress Classification F3.S43 1995 Dewey Decimal Classification 974.020922
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In 1859 John Langdon Sibley projected and began a series of biographical sketches of all Harvard graduates; at his death in 1885 he had published three volumes, covering the Classes from 1642 through 1689. In 1930 the work was resumed by Clifford K. Shipton, who carried the series through Volume XII and the Class of 1750. This book offers a representative selection from the nine volumes of Shipton’s biographies. In these sketches there appear royal governors, counterfeiters, college presidents, bootleggers, Indian fighters, Revolutionary leaders, Loyalists, mariners, lawyers, drunkards, and clergymen of four persuasions. Together they form a cross-section of Colonial life in which the Harvard tie is often only incidental. See other books on: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Eighteenth Century | Harvard University | Morison, Samuel Eliot | New England See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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New England Life in the Eighteenth Century: Representative Biographies from Sibley’s Harvard Graduates
ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS
Harvard University Press, 1995
Paper: 978-0-674-61251-8
Paper: 978-0-674-61251-8
In 1859 John Langdon Sibley projected and began a series of biographical sketches of all Harvard graduates; at his death in 1885 he had published three volumes, covering the Classes from 1642 through 1689. In 1930 the work was resumed by Clifford K. Shipton, who carried the series through Volume XII and the Class of 1750. This book offers a representative selection from the nine volumes of Shipton’s biographies. In these sketches there appear royal governors, counterfeiters, college presidents, bootleggers, Indian fighters, Revolutionary leaders, Loyalists, mariners, lawyers, drunkards, and clergymen of four persuasions. Together they form a cross-section of Colonial life in which the Harvard tie is often only incidental.
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