1. This thread will explore little known origin of Harvard University as well as the introduction of the printing press to British North America. Lets start by looking at the first headmaster of Harvard. Reverend Nathaniel Eaton.

2. Right off the bat we see something appears tremendously wrong with the Eaton family. Nathaniel Eaton was charged (albeit not in normal court) with severely beating Harvard students and his wife, Anne, was charged lacing the student’s food with livestock feces!

3. Looking into the Eaton family we see the early coordination between education (Rev. Eaton) and government his brother Theophilus Eaton the first Governor of the New Haven Colony who instituted Connecticut’s Blue Laws which are heavily Mosaic.

4. Theophilus Eaton’s wife, Ann Lloyd, also married Thomas Yale, whose descendant would go on to fund Yale. This aristocratic pattern of marriage for power is also present with Rev. Eaton’s wife Anne Graves who also married Rev. William Cotton & Rev. Francis Doughty.

5. Harvard’s feces smeared reputation was likely papered-over by the acquisition of a printing press. The first printing press in the New World was set up in Mexico in 1539, 99 years later by Joseph Glover brought the first printing press to British North America.

6. Joseph Glover aka Josse, Jose (odd for an Englishman) left England after he was “deprived of his position in the church.” Glover then died at sea (age ~38) on his way to America, leaving the printing press to his wife Elizabeth Dunster & the craft to his servant Stephen Daye.

7. Around 1639 Stephen Daye and his son, Matthew, began printing “The Freeman’s Oath” and the “Bay Psalm Book.” Both printings seem like a cultish propaganda; one document bound all members together and the other was a rewriting of earlier religious texts.

8. Information was tightly controlled by the Puritan hierarchy. The lone printing press only distributed approved materials making Daye a very wealthy man. Furthermore, there was only one distributer (Hezikiah Usher) who sold the printed materials.

9. In 1640 Rev. Richard Mather 1 of the 4 authors of the Bay Psalm Book (And Grandfather of the Witch Trials, Cotton Mather) sponsored Henry Dunster to be relocated to the New World to head the struggling college, Harvard.

10. Henry Dunster studied at both Cambridge and Magdalene earning a reputation as a distinctive Hebrew scholar. Dunster then began his teaching career at England’s Bury Grammar School before being recruited as Harvard’s new headmaster.

11. Upon arrival in Mass, the widowed Elizabeth and her printing press presented an attractive combo for Henry Dunster and the two quickly married in 1641. Elizabeth died shortly thereafter in 1643 and the Press was now in the complete control of Henry Dunster.

12. The press was now in control of Dunster, Dunster was in charge of Harvard; which meant Harvard now controlled the only printing press within thousands of miles. Access to this singular printing press was extremely limited and accordingly conferred great authority.

13. In retrospect the relocation of Glover and his subsequent death at sea certainly was a boon for The Daye family as well as Elizabeth Dunster.

Likewise Elizabeth’s death was a huge benefit to both Henry and Harvard. It all seems too conveniently suspicious. But I digress.

14. Henry led Harvard (and its printing monopoly) for over a decade until in 1653-4 when his refusal to baptize his son lead to controversy. Believing he represented a threat to the Colony he exiled himself to Plymouth setting up the first church in Scituate Mass.

15. Getting back to the Printing Press… we see the earliest forms of widespread Colonial censorship through the alteration of Psalms as well as through the limited range of printed materials available to the colonists.

16. The information control continued in the iron grip of Harvard as they acquired a second printing press in 1659. The Harvard power structure then passed a law that no printing could be done outside of Cambridge.

17. In 1665 the colonists finally received an alternative publisher when Marmaduke Johnson acquired his own printing press and set up shop in Cambridge printing 20 books between 1665 and 1674.

18. Looking into the genealogies of all of these Colonists I noticed a disproportionate number of old testament names like Enoch, Judith, Hezikiah, etc. This discovery spurred my interest as to what religion these Colonists were actually following.

19. Apparently the Separatist Puritans, were almost exclusively adhering to the Old Testament. Not only were the names of the Puritan people & places influenced by the Old Testament; they believed that the moral guidance for all legal decision should come from the Old Testament.

20. Furthermore, some of these fanatical colonists also believed themselves to be the “elect of God” whom could communicate directly with Hebrew profits and even went as far as visualizing their enemies in the Revolutionary War as Amelikites!

21. These religious zealots believed the word of God from the Hebrew scriptures was the preeminent law of the land. Failure to adhere to these arcane texts resulted in fines and whipping. Mathers even proposed the death penalty for Sabbath violations!

22. Mosaic Law was prevalent throughout the Connecticut Code of 1650 and the Massachusetts Code of 1660. The 1655 New Haven Code had 50% of the statutes citing the old Testament and just 3% citing the new Testament.

23. Upon retrospect the puritan colonies seem like a cult and Harvard looks more like a mind control operation.

I will be looking into all of this more but please feel free to add links and thoughts to this thread.