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  Henry Dunster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Dunster (November 26, 1609 – February 27, 1659) was an English-American Puritan clergyman and educator.
Dunster House, one of the twelve residential houses of Harvard University, is named after Henry Dunster.
Dunster had at least two wives: Elizabeth (Harris) Glover, the widow of Josse Glover, whom he married on June 21, 1641, but who died without issue in 1643; and Elizabeth Atkinson (1627–1690) whom he married in 1644 and bore to him five children.
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 Dunster House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dunster House was built in 1930, and is one of the first two Harvard University dormitories constructed under President Abbott Lawrence Lowell's House Plan, and one of the seven Houses given to Harvard by Edward Harkness.
The House was named in honor of Henry Dunster, a "learned, conscionable and industrious man," who became the first President of Harvard University, and was appointed to the Harvard presidency at the age of thirty-one, immediately after his arrival in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1640.
Dunster's mascot is the moose, inspired by the three golden elk on the Dunster family crest.
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 Henry Dunster - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
When Master Nathaniel Eaton was dismissed as leader of the recently-established Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dunster was appointed as his successor.
In 1651, Dunster refused to have his child baptized, confessing himself an antipaedobaptist.
For this heterodoxy, he was forced to resign from Harvard, although it was with much regret that he was sent away, since he was universally well-respected there.
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 Family of Barbara L. Sherman - pafg53 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henry Dunster was born in 1560 and died on 16 Jan 1610.
Henry Dunster was born in 1504 in Tottington, Lancaster, England.
Henry Dunster was born in 1530 and died on 11 Apr 1592.
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 Henry Dunster Biography / Biography of Henry Dunster Biography Biography
Henry Dunster was born in Bury, Lancashire, England, the fifth child of a yeoman farmer.
Dunster and Thomas Shepard, the eminent Puritan and theologian, petitioned the New England Confederation for contributions from the inhabitants, obtaining £250 in gifts of wheat by 1653.
Dunster advocated 4 years residence for the bachelor of arts degree, and although protesting students refused to pay commencement fees, he successfully instituted the change.
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 Britannia Castles: Dunster Castle, Somerset
Some would attribute to this William, the building in stone of the shell-keep of Dunster and the earliest stone walls of the lower ward, but their date, since they have almost entirely disappeared, is very problematical.
Dunster, like most other West Country and Welsh castles, had its times of trouble in the great Civil War, but came through them more easily than most of its equals.
Though Dunster did not belong to a "Malignant," it was put into the general list of fortresses to be "slighted" but the order was carried out without little zeal.
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 Meridian Magazine : : Extraordinary Stories : : Harvard's First President
Dunster made it clear that what education was about was teaching the priceless gift of character to the young men.
To Dunster the pursuit of life was the pursuit of truth.
In early 1654, the magistrates sent a letter to the ministers of the area requesting their thorough examination of President Dunster's position, for he "hath by his practice and opinions against infant baptism rendered himself offensive to this government." A conference of ministers and elders was held for two days to examine Dunster.
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 PG log truckers stop hauling - Robson Valley Times
Dan Henry, the president of the Prince George Loggers Association, said that their rates have not followed the increase in cost of operating trucks.
Henry said that in spite of a shortage of truckers in the Prince George area they continue to be underpaid because of the system that the mill uses to determine trucking rates.
Henry said the truckers were also asking the provincial government to remove provincial sales tax from their fuel costs, and exempt them from PST on new trucks and truck parts.
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 Henry Dunster -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
(For a discussion of Dunster's choice of the title "president" see (Click link for more info and facts about President, history of the term) President, history of the term.) He modeled Harvard's educational system on that of the English universities.
In 1651, Dunster refused to have his child baptized, confessing himself an (Click link for more info and facts about antipaedobaptist) antipaedobaptist.
For this (The quality of being unorthodox) heterodoxy, he was forced to resign from Harvard, although it was with much regret that he was sent away, since he was universally well-respected there.
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 History - Dunster House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dunster House is one of the first two dormitories constructed under President Lowell's House Plan, and one of the seven Houses given to Harvard by Edward Stephen Harkness.
The House was named in honor of Henry Dunster, a "learned, conscionable and industrious man," who became the first President of Harvard College, and was appointed to the Harvard presidency at the age of thirty-one, immediately after his arrival in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1640.
The House was completed in 1930 and began operations in the fall of that year under the leadership of Master Chester N. Greenough ('98), English Professor and former Dean of Harvard College.
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 bbrown.info: Formal Writings > Essays > Dunster's Rebellion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Henry Dunster was an unusual choice: he had less education than Eaton, had not written on weighty theological issues as Eaton had, and lacked the distinguished air of Eaton.
Dunster, remembering with affinity his college days at the University of Cambridge, sought to have the "…Students brought up in a more Collegiate Way of Living.'38 For Dunster as well as for the English, it was not just book learning that gave a student his education.
Dunster complained that the fellows "being so unsetled and so often changed, that ever and anon all the work committed unto them falleth agen on my shoulders."43 Also, the fellows were ostensibly engaged in teaching or researching, though only two of the five were so doing in 1653.
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 wbne0301 - pafg303 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henry DUNSTER Sr was born about 1580 in, Bury, Lancs, England.
Henry married Joan ORPE on 4 Dec 1644.
Rev Henry DUNSTER Jr [Parents] was christened on 26 Nov 1609 in St. Mary, Bury, Lancs, England.
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 Wright, Literary Culture in Early New England, 1620-1730. Ch. I
Thomas Shepard, John Norton, Abraham Pierson, John Harvard, Henry Dunster, and Roger Williams may be mentioned among the contemporaries of Milton and Jeremy Taylor, and of these Williams was, at a later period at least, a personal friend of Milton’s.
Henry Dunster was an Oriental scholar of reputation, as is shown by his correspondence with Ravius.
Henry Dunster was appointed in his place, and under him the first class of nine completed its course in 1642.
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 Ancestry Message Boards - Message [ Dunster ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Henry and Elizabeth both died in 1878 a day apart from eachother in London.
She died from complications of TB and giving birth to Henry Martin DUNSTER, her seventh child; Henry died the day before the birth of his seventh son.
Henry Martin DUNSTER was born in England in 1878.
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 Lizweb Family History
Sarah worked as a cook/domestic servant at The Luttrell Arms Hotel in Dunster High Street, the census records show she was a resident servant there for the 1881 and 1891 censuses.
She also received donations from the Dunster Clothing and Shoe Club., and had one of the highest allocations of coal in the village, probably because of the size of their family.
Mary (b.2.6.1882), William Henry (b.2.12.1886), Robert James (b.2.2.1888), John (b.19.3.1889), Sarah Margaret (b.11.4.1890), Emily (b.15.10.1891), Richard (bap.15.4.1893), Ambrose (bap.12.10.1895), Alice (bap.12.10.1895), Samuel (bap.23.1.1897), Edwin (bap.4.6.1898), Herbert (bap.7.10.1899), Ethel Maud (bap.15.1.1902) and Alma Lucy (b.19.7.1903).
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 The Table Is Set
The Dunster Tankard (far right) was once said to have belonged to Harvard's first president, Henry Dunster, a chronological impossibility as it was made by Ephraim Cobb in Massachusetts circa 1740 and Dunster met his maker in 1659.
The Holyoke Cup (second from right), also by Coney, was a domestic utensil called a caudle cup after the warm drink of ale or wine mixed with sugar, spices, eggs, or bread and generally served to the peaked, but it came to be used on ceremonial occasions such as baptisms.
When salt was costly and prized, one container of it sat at the head of the table before the most important person dining.
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 Family of Barbara L. Sherman - pafg52 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Mary Maria Jobo was born in 1617 and died on 26 Aug 1655.
Henry Dunster [Parents] was born in 1560 in Bury, Lancaster, England.
Henry Dunster was born on 30 Apr 1592 and died on 16 Sep 1646.
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 Stone in Oxney churchyard M.I.'s
Agnes Hannah daughter of William and Lucy DUNSTER (of East Guldeford) died 23 September 1895 aged 32.
Philadelphia wife of Charles DUNSTER of this parish died 26 June 1849 aged 56.
Dunster 5 6 7 9 10 12 13 15
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 The First Baptist Churches in Massachusetts
Dunster's withdrawal from Congregational fellowship, and his acceptance of Baptist principles, startled the adherents of the standing order, and greatly encouraged the few struggling representatives of the Baptist cause.
Dunster accepted this statement and sent in his resignation as President of the College, June 10, 1654.
It was in this manner that Henry Dunster, the President of Harvard College, became a Baptist.
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Dunster’s requests for funding his Indian education project were well timed: his financial campaign in 1650 roughly coincided with the uneasy end of Connecticut’s
Dunster’s efforts were successful and by 1653 the trustees of the missionary fund accumulated by Dunster ordered an Indian college built on Harvard’s premises.
The college was duly built, but while Dunster deceptively reported on the great progress of his Indian students to benefactors in England, no Indian students entered Harvard until 1660.
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 Dunster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dunster was a much sleepier place in those days, of course, and a small group of us were led around part of the castle.
The Dunster Village is a beautiful village situated on Bristol Bay in Somerset, England.
We have a small booklet with a history of Dunster village and would be pleased to purchase another copy this summer and mail it to you, if you wish.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The 500 acres for Dunster was 400 "to his own person" the other 100 acres for Harvard College.
Dunster, Gookin, and Collins are the three largest grants.
further…to Mr Henry Dunster and Edward Collins: have their small farms at Shawshine, and to be considered in their quantity more than others in regard of their work and place." April 1649 "Mr Henry Dunster, President of Harvard College, should have 500 acres" "Mr Daniell Googine 500 acres…Mr Edw.
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 Story of the Baptists: Henry Dunster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Henry Dunster was born in 1612 in England.
After careful study Henry refused to have his child baptized and thereby set off a controversy.
Henry Dunster served with great distinction at Harvard and was only removed because of the bigotry against the Bible.
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 harvard.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1643, Henry Dunster (1609-1658/9), who had succeeded to Harvard's presidency, wrote his own appeal for funds, a pamphlet entitled New England's First Fruits which, like similar efforts of the period, was directed at wealthy and benevolent Puritans who had remained in England.
The General Court celebrated the beginning of Dunster's presidency by granting Harvard the revenues of the Boston-Charlestown ferry (which it continued to receive until the construction of a bridge across the Charles River in 1785).
One of Dunster's most important actions was to obtain for Harvard a formal charter of incorporation.
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 My Family
Children were: Dorothy DUNSTER, David DUNSTER, Henry DUNSTER, Jonathan DUNSTER, Elizabeth DUNSTER.
Children were: Katherine DUNSTER, Robert DUNSTER, Henry DUNSTER.
Children were: Jony DUNSTER, Elizabeth DUNSTER, Henry DUNSTER.
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 Biographies of the Baptized Believers-- 21tnt
Henry Dunster was born in England probably in 1612.
He united in himself the character of both patron and president; for, poor as he was, he contributed at a time of the utmost need one hundred acres of land towards its support, besides rendering it for a succession of years a series of official services well directed, unwearied, and altogether inestimable.
Henry presented him with a work on rhetoric and Ward's "Oratory," which are heir-looms and family.
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 AllRefer.com - Henry Dunster (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Henry Dunster (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Henry Dunster c.1612–1659, first president of Harvard, b.
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 Page Ancestors
Her parents were Robert and Alice (Fletcher) Dunster of Bury, Lancashire, England.
Faith’s uncle Henry Dunster had emigrated to New England in 1640.
Of their children, six were born in Wales (including our ancestor Henry, born 1634), and four were born in New England.
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 History of the First Baptist Church of Boston - Since 1665
Gould and Henry Dunster (Dunster was the first President of Harvard College) had refused to have their babies baptized.
Henry Dunster (1609 - 1659) was forced by the General Court to resign his Harvard position because of his refusal.
Tablet to Henry Dunster: Given to the Church in 1907 by Dunster's descendants.
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