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Creator
Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788
Call number
MssCol 23227
Physical description
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Preferred Citation

Joseph Hawley correspondence and documents, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Sponsor
Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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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.

Digital Assets

40 Images

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Donated by Clara E. Hudson, 1931 and 1962.

Processing information

Compiled by Susan P. Waide, 2015

Materials were previously filed with the Joseph Hawley papers, MssCol 1360.

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328

Alternative form available

Available on microfilm as part of the Joseph Hawley papers, *ZL-326