Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Adams, John, 1735-1826
2. Condy, Jeremiah, 1709-1768
3. Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788

Description

1. .1 linear foot (1 folder)

Summary

1. Joseph Hawley (1723-1788) of Northampton, Massachusetts, a lawyer, legislator and militia officer, was one of the foremost political leaders of the American revolutionary movement in Massachusetts. Correspondence consists of Joseph Hawley's draft of a letter concerning the death of his brother Elisha Hawley (1726-1755); a letter to him from Boston bookseller Jeremiah Condy, 1758 December 9; and the fragment of a letter from John Adams to Hawley [1774 June 27] regarding the importance of a colonial congress. Also present are Hawley's address to the militia of Northampton, circa 1775; a fragment of his confession of belief in Arminianism; and five deeds conveying property in Northampton, to Elisha Hawley in 1751, and to Joseph Hawley, 1760-1784.

Subject

1. Real property > Massachusetts > Northampton
2. Statesmen
3. Massachusetts > Religion > 18th century
4. Massachusetts > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
5. Massachusetts > Militia
6. Booksellers and bookselling > Massachusetts > Boston
7. United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
8. Deeds
9. Speeches (documents)
10. Hawley, Elisha, 1726-1755
11. Lawyers
12. Soldiers
13. Northampton (Mass.) > History

Genre/Form

1. Deeds.
2. Speeches (documents)

Call number

1. MssCol 23227

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
2. Surrogates must be used in lieu of originals.

Additional formats (note)

1. Available on microfilm as part of the Joseph Hawley papers;
2. Available as digital images.

Funding (note)

1. Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.

Source (note)

1. Donated by Clara E. Hudson, 1931 and 1962.

Author

1. Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788.

Title

1. Joseph Hawley correspondence and documents, 1751-1784.

Restricted access

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
2. Surrogates must be used in lieu of originals.

Additional formats

1. Available on microfilm as part of the Joseph Hawley papers; New York Public Library; *ZL-326
2. Available as digital images.

Funding

1. Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.

Finding aids

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Source

1. Donated by Clara E. Hudson, 1931 and 1962.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Collection guide and digital images

Occupation

1. Lawyers.
2. Soldiers.
3. Statesmen.

Added author

1. Adams, John, 1735-1826, Correspondent.
2. Condy, Jeremiah, 1709-1768, Correspondent.
3. Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788, Correspondent.

Research call number

1. MssCol 23227