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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On July 20, 1774, Harvard College in Cambridge conferred Bachelor of Arts degrees on numerous candidates via a general diploma, signed by officials including Nathanael Appleton, John Winthrop, and John Hancock. The list includes graduates from various years, such as Daniel Adams, Fisher Ames, and others.
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We hear from Cambridge that Yesterday the Degrees were conferred on the Candidates by a general Diploma; of which the following is an exemplification, viz.
SENATUS Academiae Cantabrigienis in Nova Anglia, omnibus in Christo fidelibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint, salutem in Domino sempiternam.
Notum facimus, quod Nos (consentientibus Honorandis ac Reverendis Academiae nostrae Inspectoribus) per praesentes admittimus Dominos.
Daniel Adams, Thomas Loring, Josephum Allen, Benjamin Lovell, Jonathan Allen, Nathan Morey, Fisher Ames, Benjamin Muzzy, Edwardum Barnard, Brinley Sylvester Oliver,
Franciscum Borland, Daniel Parker, Johannem Bradford, Benjamin Putnam, Jabez Chickering, Jacobum Putnam, Johannem Clarke, Johannem Rice, Josephum Crocker, Thomam Rindge
Rogers, Isaiah Doane, Jacobum Sheaffe, Ricardum Roevel Eliot, Josiam Smith, Josephum Emerson, Mosem Taft, Sam'l Emery,
Johannem Thaxter. Abel Fisk, Nat'l Thomas, Gulielmum Fogg, Benjamin Thurston, Timotheum Dwight, Oneiphorum Tilestone, Gulielmum Gallison, Johannem Tucker, Asahel
Goodenow, Jacobum Welsh, Josephum Hall, Laban Wheaton, Josephum Haven, Bela Whipple, Gulielmum Hobart,
Thomam Rice Willard, Gulielmum Jennison, Timotheum Trumbull, Samuel Jennison
Robertum Junkins, Jacobum Ivers.
Antedictae Academiae Alumnos, ad Primum Gradum in Artibus.
Dominos etiam Abiel Smith, admissum ad Baccalaureatum,
Anno 1764,
Ephraim Wales, Anno 1768.
Thomam Kaft, Anno 1769.
et Johannem Winthrop, Anno 1770.
Samuel-Hunt Sparhawk, Josephum Avery, Jacobum Bowdoin, Johannem Frothingham, Andream Bradford, Michael
Joy, Samuel Paine, David Osgood, Gulielmum Vassall, Johannem
Warren, Samuel Phillips, Crocker Sampson, Daniel Murray,
Samuel Nye, Daniel Rogers, Gulielmum Scott, Josephum
Emerson, Abraham Watson, Johannem Alford Mason,
Thomas Edwards, David Parsons, Perez Morton, Walter
Hastings, Jonathan Norwood, Jacobum Bacon, Melzas
Turner Oakman, Mosem Hale, Israel Keith, David Toppan,
Nathaniel Dickinson, Samuel Plummer, Johannem Noyes,
Johannem White, Gad Stebbins, Josephum Pearce Palmer,
Mosem Everett, Gulielmum Cheever, Mosem Adams, Green-
leaf Dole, Samuel Wheeler, Zedekiah Sanger, Benjamin
Curtis, Isaac Bangs, Jonathan French, Johannem Tracy,
Gulielmum Scales, Josuam Dodge, Benjamin Hardy, Daniel
Tyler.
Alumnos quoque Academiae antedictae ad Secundum Gradum
in Artibus, dantes et concedentes iis omnia insignia, Jura, privilegia, dignitates ac honores ad Gradus nos spectantia.
In cujus rei testimonium, communi hujusce Universitatis Sigillo Litetris hic appenso, Chirographa apposuimus, Die, vicesimo Julii, Anno, Salutis Millesimo Septingentesimo septuagesimo
quarto.
NATHANAEL APPLETON,
JOHANNES WINTHROP,
ANDREAS ELLIOT.
Socii.
SAMUEL COOPER,
JOHANNES WADSWORTH,
JOHANNES HANCOCK, Thesaurarius.
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Cambridge
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July 20, 1774
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degrees conferred on numerous candidates for bachelor of arts and higher degrees.
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The Senate of Harvard College in Cambridge, New England, admitted listed individuals to the first and second degrees in arts via a general diploma dated July 20, 1774.