Papers, 1664-1814.

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Papers, 1664-1814.

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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.

1 box and 1 oversize folder.

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Adams, John, 1735-1826

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Cushing, John, 1695-1778

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Indian Church (Mashpee, Mass.)

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Cushing, Charles, 1734-1810.

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Cushing family.

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First Parish (Norwell, Mass.)

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Cushing, William, 1732-1810

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Jurist. From the description of William Cushing correspondence, 1783. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 152569144 Cushing was chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1777-1788), and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1789-1810). George Simpson was cashier of the Bank of the United States. From the description of Letters to George Simpson, 1798, 1805. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338688 ...

Nantucket County (Mass.). Grand Jury.

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Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780

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Governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Certification, 1752. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960172 At this time, Hutchinson was judge of probate in Suffolk County (1749-1766); later he was royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1771-1774) From the description of A Brief State of that Part of Massachusetts Bay which is situated East of the Province of Main (sic) with reasons for erecting it into a separate & distinct Province : manuscript...

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Eels, Nathaniel, 1677-1750.

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Massachusetts. Militia. Plymouth County Regiment, 2nd.

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Hawley, Gideon, 1727-1807

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Congregational clergyman and Yale graduate who served as a missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, 1752-1754; among the Iroquois on the New York frontier, 1754-1756; and to the Mashpee Indians, 1758-1807. From the description of Letters : Mashpee, Mass., 1770-1775. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 37849057 Missionary, minister; born, 1737; graduated from Yale University; served as a Congregational minister and as a missionary to the various Indian tribes in Massachuset...

Cushing, John, 1662-1737.

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