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• catalog abstract "The records of the Harvard Butler document the activities of the Butler including managing Buttery accounts and purchasing supplies for the College. The collection is comprised of financial records from 1722-1795 including account books, receipts, correspondence, bills, statements, and scrap paper used to calculate sums. The Butler materials provide a record of Harvard students and their residential life. The Butler's purchases not only reveal the supplies needed to support the student body, but they also document the cost and availability of items in 18th century Massachusetts. The records reveal the Butler's interactions with members of the community and his role in Cambridge's commercial activity: he conducted business with local merchants and borrowed money from individuals outside of Harvard. The collection includes account books compiled by Butlers Thomas Adams (Harvard AB 1788) and Samuel Shapleigh (Harvard AB 1788), and quarterly account bills signed by Butlers William Harris (Harvard AB 1786) and John Pipon (Harvard AB 1792). There do not appear to be any Butlers specified by name in the Quarterly account book for 1722 through 1751. One of the account volumes also includes a personal accounting of expenses from February 1797 through January 1799 kept by Samuel Shapleigh during the time he was Harvard's Librarian.".
• catalog contributor b755907.
• catalog contributor b755908.
• catalog contributor b755909.
• catalog contributor b755910.
• catalog contributor b755911.
• catalog contributor b755912.
• catalog contributor b755913.
• catalog contributor b755914.
• catalog coverage "Cambridge (Mass.) History 18th century Sources.".
• catalog coverage "Massachusetts Commerce History 18th century Sources.".
• catalog coverage "New England Social life and customs.".
• catalog date "1722".
• catalog description "Detailed inventory available on paper in the Harvard University Archives or electronically: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua20010".
• catalog description "Harvard University. Butler. Records of the Butler, 1722-1799. UAI 90, Harvard University Archives.".
• catalog description "One of the account volumes also includes a personal accounting of expenses from February 1797 through January 1799 kept by Samuel Shapleigh during the time he was Harvard's Librarian.".
• catalog description "Outside of the Buttery, the Butler's duties included managing the College's candle supplies, directing fires to be made, ringing the morning and evening bells, and helping to ensure utensils were not stolen. Along with noting Buttery purchases, the Butler also tallied student absences, fines, and punishments. Occasionally, the Butler also served as the College's librarian. In return he received a salary, a specified dormitory space, and in later years up to a twenty percent profit from Buttery sales.".
• catalog description "The Butler materials provide a record of Harvard students and their residential life. The Butler's purchases not only reveal the supplies needed to support the student body, but they also document the cost and availability of items in 18th century Massachusetts. The records reveal the Butler's interactions with members of the community and his role in Cambridge's commercial activity: he conducted business with local merchants and borrowed money from individuals outside of Harvard.".
• catalog description "The College Butler, often an undergraduate, was appointed as an officer of the College to manage the Buttery and to maintain designated common rooms. Students selected as Butlers entered into a central role in college life. With the Corporation's authorization, the Butler operated the Buttery, akin to a student store, selling items including "Wines & other Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Sugar, Bisket, Pens, Ink & Paper, & other suitable articles for scholars." He was also permitted to sell the "Butler's cyder." Individuals did not pay for buttery items at the time of purchase, but instead kept personal accounts with the Butler. The Butler was responsible for providing students with weekly accounts of their sizing (food or drink ordered from the Buttery) bills, and to collect on their buttery debts. He provided quarterly reports to the Steward, and paid the money he collected to the Treasurer each year.".
• catalog description "The collection includes account books compiled by Butlers Thomas Adams (Harvard AB 1788) and Samuel Shapleigh (Harvard AB 1788), and quarterly account bills signed by Butlers William Harris (Harvard AB 1786) and John Pipon (Harvard AB 1792). There do not appear to be any Butlers specified by name in the Quarterly account book for 1722 through 1751.".
• catalog description "The records of the Harvard Butler document the activities of the Butler including managing Buttery accounts and purchasing supplies for the College. The collection is comprised of financial records from 1722-1795 including account books, receipts, correspondence, bills, statements, and scrap paper used to calculate sums.".
• catalog extent ".28 cubic feet (4 volumes and one document box)".
• catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. University records. hua".
• catalog isPartOf "Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. hua".
• catalog issued "1722".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog spatial "Cambridge (Mass.) History 18th century Sources.".
• catalog spatial "Massachusetts Cambridge".
• catalog spatial "Massachusetts Commerce History 18th century Sources.".
• catalog spatial "Massachusetts".
• catalog spatial "New England Social life and customs.".
• catalog spatial "New England".
• catalog subject "Adams, Thomas, 1764-1797.".
• catalog subject "College costs Massachusetts Cambridge 18th century.".
• catalog subject "College students Economic conditions 18th century.".
• catalog subject "Consumer credit Massachusetts 18th century.".
• catalog subject "Cost and standard of living New England 18th century sources.".
• catalog subject "Food History 18th century Sources.".
• catalog subject "Food industry and trade Massachusetts 18th century.".
• catalog subject "Food service Equipment and supplies 18th century.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University Finance.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University Food service.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University Students.".
• catalog subject "Harvard University. Butler.".
• catalog subject "Merchants Massachusetts Cambridge 18th century.".
• catalog subject "Student employment.".
• catalog title "Records of the Butler, 1722-1799.".
• catalog type "Account books. aat".
• catalog type "Bills (financial). ftamc".
• catalog type "Promissory notes. aat".
• catalog type "Receipts. aat".
• catalog type "collection".