This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: … paper currency. As early as November, 17.11, he addressed a letter to the General Court, in which he stated that he had been invited to the cares and services of the office of President of the College, by the votes of that Court, and with a demand of devoting himself entirely to those cares and services,55 which he had done without any diversion; that the insufficiency of the salary was at the time of his appointment universally known and acknowledged, even by the General Court itself, who had declared that it must be and should be seasonably advanced ; that, relying on the justice and honor of the Court, and at the instance of well-wishers to the public as well as to himself, he was persuaded to accept the office without insisting on the insufficiency of the salary; that he had been four years President, and had found by experience that his salary had fallen far short of his maintenance. He therefore petitioned, that he might be indemnified for the loss he had sustained, for, unless this should be done,
the damage would prove insupportable, not to say irreparable. The urgency and justice of this petition drew nothing from the General Court except a resolve,
that the sum of thirty pounds be added to the allowance of the memorialist for the year next coming And a like sum, which sometimes was increased to forty, and once to fifty, pounds, was granted in subsequent years, in consideration of the extraordinary scarcity and dearness of provisions and other necessaries of housekeeping.55 In December, 1720, President Leverett addressed a supplicatory letter to the General Court, praying for an indemnification for the diminution of his subsistence by reason of the demolition of the President’s House, and the…