and took the degree of Master of Arts in 1635. The fruit of Mr Savage's researches will be found in Massachusetts Hist. Coll., Third Series, Vol. VIII. pp. 247, 249. The family of Harvard still exists in England. A letter to the author of this volume, from the Rev. John Harvard, a respectable clergyman of the Wesleyan church, may be found in Hon. S. A. Eliot's "History of Harvard College,” Appendix, p. 134. This gentleman is descended from the brother of our distinguished benefactor; but the traditions of the family in England do not go so far back as the accounts which have been preserved or collected on this side of the water. NOTE C, p. 175. The following is the list of the first class of Harvard College, as it stands in the catalogue: 1642. Benjamin Woodbridge, Mr. et Oxon. 1648, S. T. D. *1684 GEORGIUS DOWNING, Eques 1660, Baronettus 1663, Oliv. Crom. Henricus Saltonstall, M. D. Patav. 1649 et Oxon. 1652, Socius Nathaniel Brewster, Th. Bac. Dublin. *1690 Of these graduates at Harvard College, of the first class, Woodbridge was settled in the ministry at Newbury, in Berkshire, England. Curious particulars of Sir George Downing* are given in Hutchinson, Vol. I. p. 107, but particularly in Savage's edition of Winthrop's Journal, Vol. II. pp. 241, 242. A descendant of Sir George Downing, of the same name, founded Downing College, at Cambridge, in England, on a more liberal foundation than any other college in that university. Bulkley was settled as a clergyman at Fordham, in England, and, after his ejectment as a nonconformist, practised physic with success in London. He was the son of the eminent divine of the same name, the founder of Concord, in Middlesex county. Hubbard was the minister of Ipswich, the famous historian of New England and of the Indian wars. Wilson was minister of Dorchester, and is, with several others of this class, among whom are Barnard and Brewster, — particularly commemorated by Johnson, in the "WonderWorking Providence." * He has recently been made the subject of two very learned and interesting lectures, delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society, by Mr Charles W. Upham, of Salem, APPENDIX. ON the 6th of September, 1827, a few gentlemen, graduates of Harvard University, happened to be assembled at the house of Dr George Parkman in Boston. Some conversation took place on the propriety of erecting a monument to the memory of JOHN HARVARD, the founder of the University at Cambridge. The proposal met with the hearty concurrence of the gentlemen present, and was believed to be one which would prove acceptable to the graduates at large. In order to carry it into effect, without unnecessary delay, it was determined to proceed immediately to the adoption of the steps necessary to be taken to bring the subject before the alumni of the college. The meeting was accordingly organized, and, in pursuance to the resolutions adopted by it, the following Circular was issued: "A meeting of a few individuals who have received their education at Harvard College was held in Boston, on the 6th instant. The Hon. F. C. Gray was called to the chair, and Mr E. Everett appointed secretary. "The object of the meeting was stated to be, to consider the propriety of paying a tribute of respect to the memory of John Harvard, founder of the University at Cambridge, by erecting a suitable monument in the graveyard at Charlestown, where he lies buried: and, on motion, it was “Resolved, That the chairman and secretary of this meeting be requested to prepare a statement on this subject, to be submitted to the graduates of Harvard College, inviting a subscription of one dollar each, for the object proposed. "Resolved, That the Hon. P. O. Thatcher be requested to act as treasurer of the fund to be raised; and that the chairman, secretary and treasurer adopt the requisite measures for the erection of the monument. The meeting was then dissolved. "Copy from the record, "Attest, EDWARD EVERETT, Secretary" In pursuance of the foregoing resolutions, the undersigned beg leave to submit the following statement to the graduates of Harvard College :— VOL. I. 24 (185) John Harvard was educated at Emmanuel College, in the University of Cambridge, in England, and, having received the degree of Master of Arts was settled as a minister in that country. He came over to America, as is supposed, in 1637, having been admitted a freeman of the colony on the 2d of November in that year. After his arrival in this country, he preached a short time at Charlestown, but was laboring under consumption, and died September 14, 1638. By his will, he left the half of his estate (which amounted in the whole to £1559 14s. 4d.) as an endowment of the college, which the General Court, two years before, had determined to establish; and which, in honor of this singular liberality, was, by order of the court, thenceforward called by his name. These few facts are all which our histories have preserved to us, relative to this ever-honored name. The previous life of the stranger, who, in the short space of a year passed in a state of declining health, was able to lay this great foundation of good for remote posterity, is unknown. Of his brief ministry in Charlestown nothing is recorded. We are unacquainted even with the age at which he died; and no memorial exists to point out the spot where his ashes rest, upon the burying hill in Charlestown. In our ancient and venerable University, a most illustrious, and, we trust, imperishable monument has been reared to his memory. But it has appeared to many of the children of our alma mater, that common respect towards the name of a public benefactor suggests the propriety of marking out, by a suitable memorial, the spot where his mortal remains are deposited. It seems unbecoming that the stranger, who inquires for such a memorial of the earliest benefactor of the cause of education in the country, should be told that none such has been raised. Under the influence of these feelings, the undersigned have been directed to submit to the consideration of those who have received their education at Harvard College the propriety of erecting a simple and suitable monument to the memory of its founder, on the burying hill in Charlestown. It is proposed that it should be a plain, substantial, permanent work, of moderate cost, to be executed in hewn granite. With a view to unite in this dutiful act as many of the sons of Harvard as approve the object, it has been thought proper to limit the proposed subscription to one dollar from each individual. Although it is only to the sons of Harvard that the undersigned have thought themselves authorized directly to address this invitation, yet, as the college at Cambridge may be regarded as the parent stock of nearly all the New England seminaries, we shall cordially welcome the coöperation of those among us, who, although not educated at Cambridge, share with us in our respect for the memory of the first benefactor of American Letters. As soon as the requisite arrangements can take place, personal application will be made to the alumni of the college resident in Boston and other large towns, with a view of receiving the subscriptions, to the amount of one dollar from each individual, of those who may be inclined to unite in this act of dutiful commemoration. Gentlemen to whom, from their remote and dispersed places of residence, it may not be practicable to make this personal application, are invited to transmit their subscription by letter, addressed to the secretary. A list of the subscribers, with a memorandum of the proceedings towards effecting the object proposed, will be deposited in the archives of Harvard College. The suitable steps for erecting the work will be taken without unnecessary delay. Meantime it is requested, as this statement is not addressed to the public, that it may not find its way into the newspapers. BOSTON, September 14, 1827. F. C. GRAY, Chairman. EDWARD EVERETT, Secretary. In consequence of this invitation, a considerable number of the graduates of the college subscribed the sum proposed towards the erection of the monument. In the summer of 1828, the committee of arrangements found themselves enabled to proceed to the execution of their trust. They applied to the selectmen of Charlestown for permission to erect the monument on the burying hill in that town, which request was promptly granted. A contract was then entered into, between the treasurer of the fund and Mr Solomon Willard, architect, for the immediate execution of the work. In pursuance of this contract, the monument was hewn, by permission, from the quarry of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, at Quincy. Mr Almoran Holmes was employed by the architect to transport it from the quarry to the burying hill For this purpose nineteen yoke of oxen were employed. Its weight is between twelve and thirteen tons. It was raised to its position on the hill by Mr Holmes, on the 26th of the month, by the application of a powerful apparatus, by which the mass was held suspended freely in the air, till, at a signal given, it was lowered to its destined place. The monument is a solid obelisk, fifteen feet in height, four feet square at the larger extremity, and two at the smaller, and rises from a substantial foundation, without a base, from the surface of the ground. On the eastern face is inscribed the name of Harvard, in large letters and in high relief the first experiment, it is believed, of this kind in working the granite of this country. Beneath this name is an English inscription, and on the opposite face an inscription in Latin, wrought in white marble tablets by Mr A. Carey, and attached to the shaft. The monument is enclosed in a simple iron railing, surrounding a space nine feet square, and stands on a beautiful and commanding position on the top of the burying hill in Charlestown. The 26th day of September, being the anniversary of the decease of Harvard,* was fixed upon for the erection of the monument, of which notice was given in the public papers the day before. The corporation and faculty of Harvard College, the president of the United States, the Rev. Dr Kirkland, the committee appointed by the citizens of Charlestown on the subject of the monument, Hon. T. H. Perkins, president of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and S. Willard, Esq., architect of the monument, had been invited by the committee of arrangements to attend on this occasion. A large company of spectators, students of the university, and citizens at large, were also present. At eleven o'clock precisely the Rev Dr Walker, pastor of the Second Congregational Church in * See the concluding paragraph of note A, p. 183. Charlestown, introduced the ceremonial by a prayer, and the monument was then lowered to its permanent position. The president of the United States, having been obliged to return to Washington, and being thereby prevented from attending on this occasion, had addressed the following letter to Dr Parkman, a member of the committee of arrangements, which was now read: DEAR SIR: WASHINGTON, September 21, 1828. Among the many privations incident to my sudden but necessary departure from home, to return to my family here, was that of the pleasure which I had indulged the hope of enjoying, by personal participation in that act of filial reverence to the memory of our common benefactor, "one Mr Harvard," in which you are so worthily engaged. In compliance with your request, I had, I believe, rashly promised to address a few remarks to the spectators who may be assembled to witness the erection of this tardy monument —a monument creditable to the feelings of those by whom it is now raised, but which can add little to the renown of him whom it is intended to honor. The name of Harvard is not one of those towards which his own age or their posterity can be chargeable with ingratitude. From the very interesting printed paper enclosed in your letter, it appears that from the first institution of the college it received his name — an honor far beyond the reach of brass, marble, or granite. A single act of posthumous benevolence has enrolled him among the benefactors of mankind; and of the thousands who in the lapse of two centuries have drank from the fountain of living waters opened in the rock of the desert at the touch of his staff, what soul so insensible has there been among them, as not to cherish the memory of him, to whose bounty they have been indebted for so much of their intellectual cultivation and of their moral refinement! His name, identified from the first with the University which he founded, shares in all the honors of all her sons; and his bequest, the amount of which must be measured by the spirit with which it was bestowed, has erected to his honor a monument in the heart of every pupil admitted within her walls, which, renewed from year to year, and multiplied from age to age, will endure long after granite, brass, and marble shall have crumbled into dust. I do not think it surprising that the contemporary memorials of the person and character of Mr Harvard are so scanty. Your "New England's First Fruits" mention him with honor as a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning: but these were qualities very common among the first settlers of New England. All the principal founders both of the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies were persons of family, education, and high intellectual refinement. Neither trading, speculation, nor romantic adventure, had any share in the motives of their emigration. There might be, and doubtless was, some mixture of worldly ambition interwoven with the purposes of individuals among them; but in the annals of the world New England stands alone as emphatically the colony of conscience. Mr Harvard was not one of the original settlers. He came eight or ten years after them, when provision had been amply made for the first wants of nature and of society. Food, raiment, |