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...William Stoughton, Class of 1650, was a "prominent, wealthy, and unpopular" leader in Massachusetts life during the latter half of the seventeenth century. His grandiloquent sermons and the leading role he played in the witchcraft trials led a contemporary to describe him as a "pudding-faced, sanctimonious, and unfeeling witch-hanger...
Like later 'malefactors of great wealth," Stoughton turned in his declining years to repairing the reputation he had earlier destroyed. The result was the donation in 1799 of 1,000 pounds to the College for the first edifice in Harvard history to be built through the gift of an alumnus. This sum did not completely cover construction cost, and it was necessary for the College to petition the Massachusetts General Court for the right to use brick from an Indian college that had fallen into decay. This right was granted, but only after the College agreed that Indians coming...
...evening wore on, the war-painted invaders organized a war dance to the throbbing of tom-toms and marched through the Yard, waving torches, chanting "ugh, ugh, ugh," and bearing signs reading "We Wampum Injun rights in Stoughton...
Their claims to rooms in Stoughton was based on the charter to the original building, which collapsed...
...Additional Building to Harvard Colledge. We do Hereby signifye to ye Corporation our Consent to their Proposal; Provided that in Case any Indians should. . . be sent to ye Colledge, they should enjoy their studies rent free in said building; This Dated in Boston, Sept. 19, 1695. Win. Stoughton Ch. Morton Wait Winthrop Gab Bernam Inc Mather...