Re: Quarterman Dates

[DaneBowen@aol.com]

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.