"Out of Smalle Beginings...": An Economic History of Harvard College in the Puritan Period (1636 to 1712)

Harvard College in the seventeenth century was one of America's largest and most continuous economic enterprises. Its financing is a record of resourceful extemporization. This is the first recorded notice of the institution which was to become Harvard University, and significantly, Margery Somers Foster comments, "it is a notice concerned with finance."