Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University: In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Volume 2Charles William Sever, University Bookstore, 1881 Vol. 1 includes "an appendix, containing an abstract of the steward's accounts, and notices of non-graduates, from 1649-50 to 1659." |
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