John Harvard and his times . ble under Harvards will. Nor, itseems, did the General Court lack at least theintention of requiting Mr. Allens some old records in England is pre-served an extract from the minutes of theBoston General Court, which states that onMay 22nd, 1668, the court granted to five hundred acres in regard of gift. It is true that no confirma-279 JOHN HARVARD AND HIS TIMES tion of this gift is to be found in the ColonialRecords, but the existence of the copy of theminute surely proves that the matter must havebeen before the General Court. M
John Harvard and his times . ble under Harvards will. Nor, itseems, did the General Court lack at least theintention of requiting Mr. Allens some old records in England is pre-served an extract from the minutes of theBoston General Court, which states that onMay 22nd, 1668, the court granted to five hundred acres in regard of gift. It is true that no confirma-279 JOHN HARVARD AND HIS TIMES tion of this gift is to be found in the ColonialRecords, but the existence of the copy of theminute surely proves that the matter must havebeen before the General Court. Mr. Allenhad returned to England sixteen years pre-viously, and although he had long completedhis services in connection with Harvards leg-acy, it is evident that their value had not beenforgotten. Or, rather, perhaps this intendedgrant of land witnesses to the fact that thethirty years which had elapsed since Harvardsdeath had revealed to a new generation thereal value of his generous gift. 280 VIIITHE PRAISE OF JOHN HARVARD. THE HARVARD MONUMENT AT CHARLESTOVvN ON THE SUPPOSED SITE OF HISGRAVE IN THE PHIPPS STREET BURYING GROUND. —Paje 283. CHAPTER VIII THE PRAISE OF JOHN HARVARD HAD the gift of perspective beengranted in greater measure to theearly historians of New England,we should not have to deplore the paucity ofcontemporary references to John in the space of those fourteen monthswhich were all that were allotted to him onAmerican soil, he must have made the ac-quaintance of at least the leading ministers,if not the principal laymen, of the the former were many who, likeHarvard himself, were the sons of EmmanuelCollege, and that fact alone, in a strange land,would provide a strong bond of union. Cottonhad been a fellow of Emmanuel, and as he wasrelated to Anthony Tuckney by marriage, andhad been associated with him in ministerialwork in Old Boston, it is quite likely thatHarvard bore a letter of introduction from283 JOHN HARVARD AND HIS TIMES
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