It was not until 200 hundred years later in 1836 that President Josiah Quincy rediscovered those records while preparing for Harvard’s bicentennial celebrations.
The reason is that Duster discarded the meeting records among a pile of files after the meeting. Other people also dismissed the matter from their minds.
As the politically turbulent and violent events of this year have illustrated, we live in unpredictable times, but on this point our centennial may be instructive and I think encouraging.