A true copy of the last will and testament of the late Reverend Daniel Williams, D.D.
Series: Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Collections of the Harvard University Archives
Publisher: printed for R. Burleigh ...
Published: 1717
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Will; Funds and scholarships; Endowments; Benefactors; Harvard University
Notes: First edition.

Advertisements: [3] p. at end.

Cuts: title vignette, initial, headand tailpieces.

Daniel Williams (c. 1643-1716) was an influential Welsh Presbyterian theologian. Williams held ministries in Ireland and England, and became an influential Dissenter in London. He was often involved in sectarian controversy, and published a number of religious treatises. Upon his death in 1716, much of Williams's estate was divided among charitable and educational institutions, including Harvard College. Williams stipulated that his bequest to Harvard should be used to “manage the blessed work of Converting the poor Indians there.”