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Clarke, Joseph O. Deed of Joseph Clarke to Samuel Clarke, 1809 Mar. 07.

Title: Deed of Joseph Clarke to Samuel Clarke, 1809 Mar. 07.

Deed of Joseph Clarke to Samuel Clarke for the late Joseph Hawley homestead, Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Stevens, Wayne Edson, 1892-1959,. Manuscripts and research relating to the fur trade, [undated], 1765-1816, 1926, 1934.

Title: Manuscripts and research relating to the fur trade, [undated], 1765-1816, 1926, 1934.

Manuscripts (typewritten copies) of books and articles written by Wayne E. Stevens and photographic copies of research materials, primarily relating to the British fur trade in Canada and the United States from the 1760s to about 1816.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313834727 View

Williams, Israel, 1709-1788. Papers, 1728-1785.

Title: Papers, 1728-1785.

Papers of Israel Williams of Hatfield, Mass. contain materials related to his career as a soldier and commander of a Hampshire County regiment responsible for the defense of western Mass. during King George's and the French and Indian Wars, in particular correspondence, orders, lists of soldiers, muster rolls, and other military papers. Mass. civic and political issues are also represented heavily in the collection as documentation of Williams's role as a selectman in Hatfield, a state legislator, a Hampshire County judge, and as a member of the Governor's Council from 1761-67. (Cont'd) Also included are military papers of Israel's cousin, Ephraim Williams, while in command of forts and posts along the Mass. and N.Y. border, including muster rolls; papers related to the founding of a free school (later Williams College) in Williamstown, Mass. as a result of his will, for which Israel was executor; and papers related to Israel's loyalty to Thomas Hutchinson and Loyalist actions prior to and during the Revolution. Among the places documented are Hampshire County, Mass., Fort Massachusetts (Mass.), and Fort William Henry (N.Y.). Among the correspondents are William Shirley, Oliver Partridge, John Worthington, Spencer Phips, Thomas Hutchinson, Andrew Oliver, Joseph Hawley, Thomas Pownall, and William Williams, Israel's nephew.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 oversize box.

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Bancker, Gerard, 1740-1799. [New York and Massachusetts boundary papers], 1773-1787.

Title: [New York and Massachusetts boundary papers], 1773-1787.

Field book, legislative acts, contemporary copies of official correspondence, and a legal representation, pertaining to the disputed boundary between New York and Massachusetts, 1773-1787, and undated.

ArchivalResource: 32 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58771680 View

Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788. [Papers] / Joseph Hawley and Joseph Hawley Clarke.

Title: [Papers] / Joseph Hawley and Joseph Hawley Clarke. 1746-1824.

Scrapbook containing papers, receipts, and statements for bills and services, many of Joseph Hawley and Joseph Hawley Clarke of Northampton, Massachusetts. Some documents relate to Hampshire County, Massachusetts and other towns in that county. Also included are miscellaneous newspaper clippings from the 1850's.

ArchivalResource: ca. 98 items ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39884010 View

Joseph Hawley papers, 1653-1789

Title: Joseph Hawley papers 1653-1789

Letters to and from Joseph Hawley, and letters and documents relating to him or to his family, 1653-1789, dealing with public and private affairs, especially the colonial wars and the American Revolution, and including papers of the Northampton committee of safety

ArchivalResource: .6 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1360 View

Ashley, Jonathan, 1712-1780. Manuscripts, 1753-1780 [microform]

Title: Manuscripts, 1753-1780 [microform]

ArchivalResource: 66 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30854876 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01965/catalog View

Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788. Joseph Hawley papers, 1653-1789.

Title: Joseph Hawley papers, 1653-1789.

Letters to and from Joseph Hawley, and letters and documents relating to him or to his family, 1653-1789, dealing with public and private affairs, especially the colonial wars and the American Revolution, and including papers of the Northampton committee of safety.

ArchivalResource: .6 linear foot (2 boxes)

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Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788. Letter to the Senate of Massachusetts, 1780 Oct. 05.

Title: Letter to the Senate of Massachusetts, 1780 Oct. 05.

Letter regarding the requirement to take an oath of Christianity before serving in the Senate.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70978961 View

Marsh, Moses. Moses Marsh power of attorney, 1753 May 07.

Title: Moses Marsh power of attorney, 1753 May 07.

Power of attorney of Moses Marsh given to Joseph Hawley, of Northampton, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70979094 View

Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814. Elbridge Gerry papers II, 1770-1848.

Title: Elbridge Gerry papers II, 1770-1848.

Papers of statesman Elbridge Gerry. Correspondence concerns food, clothing, and other supplies for the American forces in the Revolutionary War; the conduct and promotion of Continental Army officers; debates on the Constitution; the war with France and Gerry's diplomatic mission to France; and Massachusetts and national politics. Reference is also made to Gen. Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, the conditions of Revolutionary War hospitals, and the Louisiana Purchase. Correspondents include John Adams, Samuel Adams, Gerry's wife Ann Thompson Gerry, Joseph Hawley, James Lovell, James Sullivan, Joseph Trumbull, James Warren, and John Wendell. Letters of Mercy Otis Warren refer to her historical researches and writings, and to personal matters.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 oversize container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18093369 View

Hancock, John, 1737-1793. Letter to John Watts, 1773 May 14.

Title: Letter to John Watts, 1773 May 14.

In this letter from Massachusetts commisioners Hancock, Brattle and Hawley, they attempt to draw up an agreement with New York commissioners Watts, Smith, Livingston, and Nicholls over the Massachusetts/New York property boundaries for the Massachusetts Bay.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves) + 1 engraving.

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Bancroft, George, 1800-1891,. George Bancroft collection, 1606-1887.

Title: George Bancroft collection, 1606-1887.

Collection consists of transcripts (and some originals) of letters, dispatches, statistical data, journals, minutes of proceedings, and other papers culled from American, British and European sources by George Bancroft in the course of research for his historical works.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet (432 v. and 15 boxes).

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Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Collection of documents concerning the American Revolution, 1740-1866

Title: Jared Sparks collection of documents concerning the American Revolution, 1740-1866 .

Documents copied or collected by American historian and president of Harvard Jared Sparks.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00303/catalog View

Autograph File, H

Title: Autograph File, H

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear feet (22 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01431/catalog View

Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788. Autograph letter signed : Northampton [Mass.], to Moses Bliss at Springfield, 1766 Apr. 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Northampton [Mass.], to Moses Bliss at Springfield, 1766 Apr. 11.

Concerning a legal judgement.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270471283 View

Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788. Will of Joseph Hawley, 1775, 1778.

Title: Will of Joseph Hawley, 1775, 1778.

Last will and testiment of Joseph Hawley (1775? May 17). Probated (1788? May 6) with bequests to Joseph O. Clarke.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70979256 View

Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788. Memorandum of indebtedness, 1769 Feb. 18.

Title: Memorandum of indebtedness, 1769 Feb. 18.

Memorandum reflecting the indebtedness of Samuel Baker, John Worthington, and Simon Strong, of Northampton, Mass., to Joseph Mitchel, of Deerfield.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814. Letter to [James Warren] and portrait, 1776 June 15.

Title: Letter to [James Warren] and portrait, 1776 June 15.

Gerry discusses the failure of the Canadian expedition in medical terms: "Congress are determined to search ye Wound & probe it to ye Bottom." He places the blame on Congress, alluding to a quote from the "Aeneid" in which a patient worsened under a doctor's care, enumerates the necessary enquiries and asserts that the future of the army depends on the answers. Gerry continues with the announcement that loan offices and commissioners will be appointed. One office will be in Massachusetts and the commissioners will be paid 1/8% on money borrowed. He hopes their friend Mr. A[dams] will receive the appointment. In a series of postscripts Gerry approves of members of Congress not holding a seat in the Massachusetts legislature; warns against sending military stores out of the colony with the exception of saltpeter about which Major [Joseph] Hawley should be notified; and questions the wisdom of allowing supplies to remain on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. An portrait of Gerry accompanies the letter.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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United States Revolution collection, 1754-1928.

Title: United States Revolution collection, 1754-1928.

This collection consists of an eclectic group of records pertaining to the American Revolution. Gathered from diverse sources, it includes correspondence, reports, returns, orders, rolls, military court records, copies of town meeting minutes, petitions, oaths, depositions, and receipts. There is material relating to the early resistance of colonists to British efforts to tighten administration of the American colonies. Such events as the Stamp Act and its consequent resistance, colonial non-importation agreements, opposition to the Tea Act and other unpopular measures, are all illuminated by documents in this collection, as well as the activities of Committees of Correspondence and town meetings. There are some especially interesting documents pertaining to the actions of the convention of committees of correspondence of Worcester County in the period 1774 to 1776. Several items refer to the participation of the French in the American Revolution, including a few letters of Roderigue Hortalez & Co. which was an operation through which Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was able secretly to channel French aid to the American cause. Several documents written in French pertain to military organization and training. There are also several documents dealing with charges against and imprisonment of American Loyalists as well as confiscation of Loyalist estates. A series of interesting documents relate to the transport and detention of Loyalists from New York State in Worcester; a group of later documents reveals efforts by Worcester officials to obtain funds from New York to pay for the detention of New York Loyalists in Worcester. The collection contains a large number of official military documents including returns (for troops, provisions, arms, etc.), lists of prisoners, hospitial patients, etc., guard reports, and documents pertaining to courts-martial and courts of inquiry. One such case for which there are many documents is that of the trial of Worcester militia captain Ebenezer Lovel (1730-1817). Included also is a document written in Old German script pertaining to the quarterly meeting of the German Society of the City of New York, 3 January 1785, with a list of its members, including Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben (1730-1794). There are a series of town resolutions enacted by Massachusetts towns and concerning the propriety of forming a new state government. There is also an interesting group of letters from Henry Marble ( -1841) to Breck Parkman (1749-1825), some correspondence of William White ( - ) of Boston, and several documents of George Webb (1740-1825). Among the more notable individual documents in the collection are those with accounts of battles. Two Ethan Allen (1738-1789) letters relate to the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, while another by Joseph Hawley (1723-1788) of Northampton stresses its strategic importance. There are several accounts of the action at Lexington and Concord and an excellent report of the Battle of Bunker Hill attributed to Peter Thacher (1752-1802). Other documents describe the siege of Boston, the campaigns which culminated in the Battle of Saratoga, the Battle of Trenton, and other actions. The collection also includes _four_uncataloged_folio_volumes_, one cataloged folio volume, and _four_uncataloged_octavo_volumes_. The four uncataloged folio volumes and three of the uncataloged octavo volumes contain records of the Continental Army. Folio volume 1 contains, for the most part, weekly strength returns for the period 4 September 1779 to 16 June 1781 for the Third Massachusetts Brigade of Foot (consisting of the 1st, 5th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 14th Massachusetts Regiments, and, for a time, the 1st New York Regiment). The brigade was stationed at various times at West Point, Peekskill, Steenropie(?), Orangetown, and Camp Totowa. This volume also contains returns for the period 9 July 1781 to 27 October 1781 for the First Massachusetts Brigade of Foot (consisting of the 1st, 4th, and 7th Massachusetts Regiments). This brigade was stationed at Peekskill. Folio volume 2, a continuation of folio volume 1, contains, for the most part, weekly strength returns for the period 3 November 1781 to 25 October 1783 for the First Massachusetts Brigade of Foot (consisting of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 7th Massachusetts Regiments). The brigade was stationed at various times at York Hutts, West Point, Camp Verplancks, and New Windsor. Folio volume 3 is a record book of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment for the period 1777 to 1783. There are lists of field, staff, and commissioned officers, descriptive lists of non-commissioned officers and privates (noting age, physical characteristics, occupation, residence, birthplace, term and date of enlistment), records of courts-martial proceedings, lists of the dead and deserters, and registers of furloughs and discharges. This regiment was also stationed in the West Point area in the early 1780s toward the close of the war. Folio volume 4 is the Record of the Committee to Settle Pay of Soldiers, 1779-1782, with Extracts of Massachusetts Laws, 1782-1784. It contains resolves of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the minutes of the Committee appointed by the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Army, concerning the army's request for an adjustment in and settlement of the pay of the officers and soldiers because of currency depreciation. Also included are suggested means of obtaining the adjustment (e.g., by determining current prices of beef, corn, wool, and leather), a list of the committee's appointees and their duties, methods of raising taxes to cover the adjustment, and a series of Resolves and Committee Remonstrances over a controversy concerning the House's insistence on deducting from the proposed payment the original bounties given those who enlisted. The Extracts of Massachusetts Laws include the Confession Act of 1782, Marriage and Divorce, Larceny, and Executions. Folio volume 5, a _cataloged_folio_folder_, contains copies of letters of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, 29 April 1775 - 25 June 1775, including circular letters to Massachusetts towns calling for military preparedness in response to a possible British march from Boston, letters containing proposals for the seizure of Fort Ticonderoga, as well as those ordering supplies for Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) during the Ticonderoga expedition. Many letters reflect emergency efforts to raise troops from neighboring colonies, the unrest in the new army (including differences over appointments of officers and poor behavior of troops), and the Committee's refusal to seek cessation in hostilities. All the items in this folder are cited on the catalog card as "U.S. Rev. Coll. Letterbook." Octavo volume 1 contains the same records as folio volume 4, in different handwriting, concerning the Report of the Committee to adjust salaries of officers and soldiers, although the folio volume includes additional memorials. Octavo volume 2 is an orderly book, 1782-1783, kept by Joseph Russell (1757-1837) for Captain Benjamin Heywood's (1746-1816) 5th Company, 6th Massachusetts Regiment. Included are lists of "stipulated prices" for work performed by tailors, shoemakers, and washerwomen; weekly and provision returns; rosters; inspection returns; and a copy of orders issued by Major-General Robert Howe (1732-1786), 17 November 1782, concerning the need to "restrain the marauding" spirit among the soldiers towards the inhabitants. Several provision returns mention women and children as drawing specific amounts of supplies. Octavo volume 3 contains extracts from several Congressional Resolutions (e.g., proclamation of peace, 1783); provisions to be distributed among wounded officers, 1776; salary scales, 1782; duties of the quartermaster-general and his subordinates. The volume includes examples of forms to be followed for recording returns and subsistence-allowance. Also copied into the volume is the Constitution of the Society of the Cincinnati (a fraternal organization of veteran officers), 1783, as well as a list of officers at the New Windsor Cantonment, 1783. This volume may have been kept by Lt. Col. Thomas Cogswell (1746-1810). Octavo volume 4 is the receipt book, 1781, of Capt. Abraham Tuckerman ( - ), Quartermaster of the 1st Massachusetts Brigade. The volume contains receipts for specific supplies sent to regiments at West Point and Peekskill, New York, and Philipsburg, Pa. There are also a few provision returns for Capt. Tuckerman, carpenters, blacksmiths, and others.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes.1 box ; oversize.5 v. ; folio.4 v. ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259824 View

Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788. Papers, 1779-1783.

Title: Papers, 1779-1783.

Writs of information, warrants, and bail recognizance memoranda of Joseph Hawley, Justice of the Peace for Hampshire County, Mass. Among the complaints for which Hawley issued arrest warrants were concealing Continental Army deserters, assaulting an officer in search of a deserter, and unlawfully freeing a man from prison. One warrant charges Elihu Chilson of Northampton, Mass., with swearing loyalty to the British crown.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16912123 View

Hawley, Joseph, 1723-1788. Survey of land belonging to Major Hawley, 1773 Apr.

Title: Survey of land belonging to Major Hawley, 1773 Apr.

Survey of land in Northampton, Mass., owned by Major Joseph Hawley, purchased from Eliphaz Clapp.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70978950 View

Davis, Mary, b. ca. 1774. Mary Davis article of indenture, 1781 July 21.

Title: Mary Davis article of indenture, 1781 July 21.

Article of indenture for Mary Davis, signed by the Overseers of the Poor of Northampton, Mass. (Caleb Strong), certified by Joseph Hawley and Robert Breck, justices of the peace.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70979099 View

Bartlett, Simeon. Contract, 1783 Aug. 06.

Title: Contract, 1783 Aug. 06.

Contract to build a fence: Simeon Bartlett to Maj. Joseph Hawley.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70978951 View

George Bancroft collection, 1606-1887

Title: George Bancroft collection

George Bancroft (1800-1891) was an American historian, diplomat and public official who wrote the ten-volume History of the United States. Bancroft's positions included Collector of the Port of Boston, Secretary of the Navy under Polk, Minister to Great Britain from 1846 to 1849, and Minister to Germany from 1867 to 1874. In addition to History of the United States, Bancroft wrote other historical studies and biographies. Collection consists of transcripts (and some originals) of letters, dispatches, statistical data, journals, minutes of proceedings, and other papers culled from American, British and European sources by George Bancroft in the course of research for his historical works. Bulk of the collection reflects the economic, political, military, and diplomatic relations between Great Britain and its North American colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly the period leading up to the American Revolution of 1775-1783, the war itself, and the immediate aftermath of the war culminating in the writing and adoption of the U.S. Constitution. There are materials on the presidencies of George Washington and James K. Polk, and the 1872 dispute between Great Britain and U.S. over the water boundary between the U.S. and British Columbia. Also, records dealing with relations in the 18th century between the U.S. and continental European countries, and various European countries with each other (especially Prussia, Austria, France, Spain, and Great Britain).

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet (432 v. and 15 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/195 View

Porter, Elisha, 1742-1796. Elisha Porter papers, 1762-1822.

Title: Elisha Porter papers, 1762-1822.

Army officer. Correspondence, commissions, returns, regimental lists, orders and reports relating to Porter's military service (1775-82) with the 4th Hampshire County Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia in the Revolution and Shays' Rebellion, the war effort (1775-76) in the Hadley, Mass., area, and Porter's duties as sheriff and justice of the peace of Hampshire County, Mass. Correspondents include Benedict Arnold, Elbridge Gerry, Joseph Hawley, Samuel Hopkins, Samuel Osgood, Col. Joseph Reed, Gen. Philip Schuyler, Gen. William Shepard, John Trumbull (1756-1843), Israel Williams, Baron Frederick de Woedtke, and David Wooster.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16782014 View