In a message dated 9/13/2002 4:07:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jsq@quarterman.com writes:
1638: John Harvard d.,
[2]John Harvard, a 31-year-old clergyman from Charlestown,
Massachusetts died, leaving his library and half of his estate to a
local college. The young minister's bequest allowed the college to
firmly establish itself. In honor of its first benefactor, the school
adopted the name Harvard College
Harvard College was also greatly helped by having the concession for the Charles Town ferry.
Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Bacon, Carlton (Carleton), Luker, Sanders (Saunders), Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Maverick, Richey (Ritchie, Richie, Ritchey), Spence, Sumner, Way, and Wells families.