- Title
- Commencement Day orations of Nathaniel Freeman, 1787, 1790 ; Hallow’d walls of reverend Harvard
- Freeman, Nathaniel, 1766-1800, creator
- Massachusetts
- Manuscript notebook contains two orations, delivered by Nathaniel Freeman at Harvard College Commencement on July 18, 1787, when he received his bachelors’ degree, and on July 21, 1790, when he received his master’s degree. Both orations are twelve pages in length and are written in Freeman’s handwriting. The 1787 oration considers the governmental crisis in America and the country’s new constitution. It is followed by three pages of writing addressed to “My Friends and Classmates.” The 1790 oration discusses civil and religious freedoms in America. Both speeches directly address the evils of slavery. The notebook’s cover is an engraved scene of Southampton, England, and the inside cover has glued to it the top right corner of a 1787 Harvard theses broadside.
- 0.03 cubic feet (1 pamphlet binder)
- English
- Books and documents
- Freeman, Nathaniel
Harvard University--Students
Education, Higher--Massachusetts--18th century
Education--New England--18th century
Cambridge (Mass.) - Open for research.
Purchased in September 2015.
Collections and items have been digitized with the generous support of The Polonsky Foundation.
The Harvard University Archives also holds the Commonplace book of Nathaniel Freeman, 1786-1787, HUM 41. - Nathaniel Freeman (1766-1800), politician and lawyer, was born on May 1, 1766 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He received his Harvard AB in 1787 and his Harvard AM in 1790. Freeman was admitted to the bar in 1791 and began practicing law in the Cape Cod district. He served as Brigade Major in the Massachusetts Militia for sixteen years, and became a justice of the peace in 1793. Freeman was also a United States Representative from Massachusetts; he was elected as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress and then elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifth Congress, serving from March 4, 1795 to March 3, 1799. Nathaniel Freeman died on August 22, 1800.
- Freeman, Nathaniel, 1766-1800. Commencement Day orations of Nathaniel Freeman, 1787, 1790. HUM 207, Harvard University Archives.
- Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Collections of the Harvard University Archives
Colonial North American Project at Harvard University - Harvard University Archives
- 990147247170203941
- Title
- Commencement Day orations of Nathaniel Freeman, 1787, 1790 ; Hallow’d walls of reverend Harvard
- Creator / Contributor
- Freeman, Nathaniel, 1766-1800, creator
- Place of Origin
- Massachusetts
- Description
- Manuscript notebook contains two orations, delivered by Nathaniel Freeman at Harvard College Commencement on July 18, 1787, when he received his bachelors’ degree, and on July 21, 1790, when he received his master’s degree. Both orations are twelve pages in length and are written in Freeman’s handwriting. The 1787 oration considers the governmental crisis in America and the country’s new constitution. It is followed by three pages of writing addressed to “My Friends and Classmates.” The 1790 oration discusses civil and religious freedoms in America. Both speeches directly address the evils of slavery. The notebook’s cover is an engraved scene of Southampton, England, and the inside cover has glued to it the top right corner of a 1787 Harvard theses broadside.
- Extent
- 0.03 cubic feet (1 pamphlet binder)
- Language
- English
- Digital Format
- Books and documents
- Subjects
- Freeman, Nathaniel
Harvard University--Students
Education, Higher--Massachusetts--18th century
Education--New England--18th century
Cambridge (Mass.) - Notes
- Open for research.
Purchased in September 2015.
Collections and items have been digitized with the generous support of The Polonsky Foundation.
The Harvard University Archives also holds the Commonplace book of Nathaniel Freeman, 1786-1787, HUM 41. - Biographical / Historical Note
- Nathaniel Freeman (1766-1800), politician and lawyer, was born on May 1, 1766 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He received his Harvard AB in 1787 and his Harvard AM in 1790. Freeman was admitted to the bar in 1791 and began practicing law in the Cape Cod district. He served as Brigade Major in the Massachusetts Militia for sixteen years, and became a justice of the peace in 1793. Freeman was also a United States Representative from Massachusetts; he was elected as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress and then elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifth Congress, serving from March 4, 1795 to March 3, 1799. Nathaniel Freeman died on August 22, 1800.
- Cite As
- Freeman, Nathaniel, 1766-1800. Commencement Day orations of Nathaniel Freeman, 1787, 1790. HUM 207, Harvard University Archives.
- Series
- Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Collections of the Harvard University Archives
Colonial North American Project at Harvard University - Repository
- Harvard University Archives
- Record ID
- 990147247170203941
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