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Cushing, William, 1732-1810. Notes of cases decided in the Superior and Supreme Judicial Courts of Massachusetts from 1772 to 1789; taken by the Hon. William Cushing, one of the judges during that period and most of the time Chief Justice.

Title: Notes of cases decided in the Superior and Supreme Judicial Courts of Massachusetts from 1772 to 1789; taken by the Hon. William Cushing, one of the judges during that period and most of the time Chief Justice.

Notes of cases taken by Judge William Cushing during his tenure on the Massachusetts superior and supreme courts.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 24.5 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81972193 View

Cushing, William, 1732-1810. Papers, 1664-1814.

Title: Papers, 1664-1814.

Letters, family papers, and legal papers of William Cushing, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Includes deeds and other documents of Cushing's father, Judge John Cushing, and grandfather, John Cushing, of Scituate, Mass. Among the correspondents are Nathaniel Eels, pastor of a Scituate Congregational church (now the Norwell First Parish), William's brother Charles, Thomas Hutchinson, Benjamin Lincoln, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Abigail Adams, George Washington, and Jared Ingersoll. Among Cushing's legal papers are a critique of the proposed U.S. Constitution, comments on a case in which a slave was declared free under the Massachusetts constitution, and John Cushing Jr.'s charges to the Grand Jury of Nantucket in the 1740's. (Con't) Also, an oversize volume containing Cushing family commissions, including judicial appointments and military appointments of John Cushing Jr. in the Plymouth County Militia.

ArchivalResource: 1 box and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16960964 View

Cushing, William, 1732-1810. Charge to Grand Jury, 1780.

Title: Charge to Grand Jury, 1780.

Charge to the Grand Jury of York County, District of Maine, in June 1780, from the chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, William Cushing.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16949731 View

Cushing, William, 1732-1810. Scrapbook, 1919.

Title: Scrapbook, 1919.

Scrapbook of Arthur Prentice Rugg containing pamphlets, letters, articles and addresses, and copies of manuscripts relating to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Cushing and the Cushing family. Included are ms. addresses by Grafton Dulaney Cushing and Harvey Hunter Pratt. Many of the items relate to the erection of a tablet to William Cushing in 1919 by the Scituate (Mass.) Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16912804 View

Cushing, John D., 1922-. Notes of cases decided in the Superior and Supreme Judicial Courts of Massachusetts from 1772 to 1789; taken by the Hon. William Cushing, one of the judges during that period and most of the time Chief Justice / transcribed by John D. Cushing (Librarian, Mass. Hist. Soc.), 1961.

Title: Notes of cases decided in the Superior and Supreme Judicial Courts of Massachusetts from 1772 to 1789; taken by the Hon. William Cushing, one of the judges during that period and most of the time Chief Justice / transcribed by John D. Cushing (Librarian, Mass. Hist. Soc.), 1961.

Notes of cases taken by Judge William Cushing during his tenure on the Massachusetts superior and supreme courts. Transcribed from the original [HLS MS 4083].

ArchivalResource: [1], 99 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237396674 View

Lowell, Charles, 1782-1861. Manuscripts, 1657-1853.

Title: Manuscripts, 1657-1853.

Manuscripts collected by Charles Lowell regarding colonial New England, politics, and the Revolutionary War. In particular, the papers of politicians: Lowell's father John Lowell, Joshua Brackett, Joseph Whipple, William Whipple, and James Lovell. Topics discussed include relations of the colonies with England (1729); a plan of union for the colonies for their mutual defense and security; politics; and financial and other aspects of the Revolution, in particular New Hampshire's strained financial situation as a result of the war. Also, the Declaration of Independence, a state lottery in Pennsylvania to raise money for the cause, Shays's Rebellion, West Indian imports to the United States, and the U.S. court system. Correspondents include Thomas Dwight, Robert Traill, William Cushing, Theodore Sedgwick, Samuel Sewall, Jeremy Belknap, Robert Morris, Caleb Strong, and Jonathan Sewall.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18727352 View

Cushing, Nathaniel, 1762-1827. Papers, 1776-1827.

Title: Papers, 1776-1827.

Forty-one letters to Cushing and his wife, Mehetable Dodge Cushing, of Pembroke, Mass., from Bathsheba Whitman (1777-1864), who operated a school with S. Clapp at which several of the Cushing children were educated, relating to the school, its students, teachers (some Quakers), curriculum, and other topics; other papers of the family; letters and papers of Charles, John, Thomas, and William Cushing; and papers of the family of Nathaniel Cushing (1768-1827), of Scituate, Mass. Includes letters from Thomas Cushing to John Hancock, papers of William Cushing relating to the estate of Andrew Oliver, and letters relating to transatlantic voyages.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17191346 View

Cushing, William, 1732-1810. Judicial notebook, 1783.

Title: Judicial notebook, 1783.

Judicial notebook kept by William Cushing, Chief Justice of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court, in 1783 regarding the case of the Commonwealth v. Jennison. The case, which involved a black slave Quock Walker, resulted in Cushing's ruling that slavery was inconsistent with the Mass. State Constitution of 1780.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. in a case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28196201 View

Cushing, William, 1732-1810. Letters to George Simpson, 1798, 1805.

Title: Letters to George Simpson, 1798, 1805.

Two letters regarding Cushing's salary.

ArchivalResource: 2 sheets (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234338688 View

Cushing, William, 1732-1810. William Cushing family papers, 1657-1840.

Title: William Cushing family papers, 1657-1840.

Personal and legal papers of the Cushing family of Hingham, Scituate and Boston, Mass., 1657-1835. Includes deeds, receipts, account books, and wills of John, Jeremiah, Nathaniel, Thomas and other members of the Cushing family, 1657-1750s; shipping records for the schooner Conclusion and sloop Charming kept by John Cushing, 1750-70; correspondence between John Cushing and his children Charles and William Cushing related to personal and business matters, 1761-90s, including a letter written by William to John, 1776, describing his case of smallpox in Boston; deeds for land in Scituate kept by Roland Cushing, 1780s; papers related to William Cushing's tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court, 1790s; and an appraisal of Charles Cushing's land, 1835. Collection also includes a manuscript copy of John Adams's political essay entitled Novanglus written in April 1775 (which was never published); Cushing family genealogical notes compiled in 1830; and a will for Mary Channing Gibbs of Boston, 1824, with an accompanying legal letter, 1840.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (and 1 box of photocopies)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50633935 View

Cushing, William, 1732-1810. Letter : Boston, to John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, 1783 Dec. 20.

Title: Letter : Boston, to John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, 1783 Dec. 20.

Forwarding the court's opinion in the matter of the Complaint of the Governor of South Carolina that the Massachusetts judiciary had illegally interfered with the return of eight runaway slaves; the opinion states that the negroes had been unlawfully imprisoned but that that act in no wise constituted an infringement of the rights of either the U.S. or the State of South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270537515 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Printed form filled out in Jefferson's hand : Washington, D.C., to Mr. and Mrs. Cushing, 1805 Feb. 2.

Title: Printed form filled out in Jefferson's hand : Washington, D.C., to Mr. and Mrs. Cushing, 1805 Feb. 2.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (oblong 12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270496306 View

Cushing, William, 1732-1810. William Cushing correspondence, 1783.

Title: William Cushing correspondence, 1783.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/152569144 View

Samuel Holten Papers, 1630-1843, (bulk 1744-1843)

Title: Samuel Holten Papers 1630-1843 (bulk 1744-1843)

Delegate to the United States Continental Congress from and United States representative of Massachusetts, jurist, and physician. Correspondence, account books, and bills and receipts relating primarily to Holten's public service career in Massachusetts, the federal government, and his medical practice.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items; 4 containers; 1.6 linear feet; 4 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007048 View

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806. Autograph letter signed : New York, to James Wilson, 1789 Sept. 27.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, to James Wilson, 1789 Sept. 27.

Regarding his nomination by the President as Second Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, alongside Chief Justice John Jay and his associates John Rutledge, James Wilson , Robert Harrison, William Cushing and John Blair, "the station is honorable and the salary of $3500 /ann. not contemptible altho neither comes up to my wishes for you, but you must accept, it is said here that Mr. Rutledge will not accept"; regarding Mr. Hopkins, appointed District Judge, who has enemies slandering him; expressing his hope that the Convention has positive results for Philadelphia; explaining that he has "laboured hard to bring Congress into the neighborhood of our city" but all depends on tomorrow in the House of Representatives.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p., with address panel) ; 22.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/603541745 View