- unitid
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{"value"=>"1283", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1283", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1818/1874", "value"=>"1818-1874"}
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1818
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1874
- keydate
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1818
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1818
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1874
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Hale family papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 linear foot (3 boxes, 1 oversize folder)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Collection consists of correspondence and other papers of the Hale family of Newburyport, Mass. Includes letters, chiefly to relatives, from Benjamin Hale, Sr. (1797-1863), president of Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., and from Benjamin Hale, Jr.; copies of lectures given at Geneva, N.Y. by Benjamin Hale, Sr.; correspondence, 1825-1847, of the Reverend John March; letters to Josiah Little Hale (1803-1875) and Thomas Hale (1800-1854), insurance company executives in Brooklyn, N.Y., relating to their business and charitable affairs; papers pertaining to the receivership of the Merchants Marine Insurance Company and to other insurance firms; and papers, 1844-1845, concerning the building of the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N.Y."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Hale family papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Hale family", "type"=>"famname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Hale family was a Newburyport, Massachusetts, family of ten siblings, among whom were Benjamin, Josiah Little, Thomas, Joshua, Ebenezer, Moses Little, and Alice.</p> <p>Benjamin Hale, Sr. (1797-1863), was a prominent 19th-century educator who taught at the Saco Academy, Bowdoin College, the Gardiner Lyceum, and Dartmouth College, and became the third president of Hobart College (then Geneva College). He had two children, Benjamin Hale, Jr., and Sarah Hale.</p> <p>Josiah Little Hale and Thomas Hale were active in the insurance business in New York City, Josiah as vice-president of Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company and Thomas as third vice-president of that firm, president of the Merchants Marine Insurance Company, and secretary of the Pacific Mutual Insurance Company. These two brothers were also founding members of the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York.</p> <p>Moses Little Hale was the secretary of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company in Boston. Alice Hale married John C. March, who became a minister in Newburyport following his studies for the ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary. Joshua and Ebenezer also lived in Newburyport.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Hale Family Papers span the years 1818 to 1874 and consist of handwritten and printed documents including letters, legal papers, accounts, actuarial charts, leaflets, and architectural prints. They are organized into six subgroups and eleven series, given on the container list.</p> <p>Most of Benjamin Hale's letters in the collection are to family members and are of a personal nature. His lectures given at Geneva College are on religious topics.</p> <p>Josiah Little Hale's letters received mainly pertain to business. His papers as chairman of the Building Committee, Church of the Pilgrims, include accounts and contracts. There is also a lithographed church ground plan with pew prices - and penciled-in family names - as well as a lithograph by Nathaniel Currier's shop of the plan of pews for the Bleecker Street Presbyterian Church in New York. Thomas's papers as treasurer of the Church of the Pilgrims are mostly receipts.</p> <p>The letters and letters received of the Reverend John C. March discuss religious as well as personal matters. His fellow seminarian Jacob Stone is a prominent correspondent.</p> <p>The largest series is the Hale family's insurance company papers, which are the business papers of Josiah Little, Thomas, and Moses Little Hale, as well as insurance policies held by other family members. They are organized by the name of the insurance firm. The series contains some interesting printed ephemera; as do other series. An example filed with the Merchants Marine Insurance Company papers is an 1841 leaflet of the. Sailor's Home on Cherry Street, erected by the American Seamen's Friend Society.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Hale family papers are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1283#c1037943'>Benjamin Hale Sr</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1283#c1037946'>Josiah Little Hale</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1283#c1037950'>Thomas Hale</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1283#c1037952'>Thomas, Joshua, Ebenezer, and Moses Little Hale and Unidentified Family Members</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1283#c1037954'>Rev. John C. March</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1283#c1037957'>Hale Family</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Received from Gift</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Accessioned by CF, January 20, 1989</p>"}
- extent_statement
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1 linear foot (3 boxes, 1 oversize folder)