Joseph Hawley papers
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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. The Joseph Hawley papers, dating 1653 to 1804, comprise letters to and from Joseph Hawley and letters and documents relating to him or to his family dealing with public and private affairs, especially the colonial wars and the American Revolution, including papers of the Northampton Committee of Correspondence, 1653-1804 and undated; Joseph Hawley’s writings on religious, legal and political topics, circa 1740s-1783; and sermon notes 1724-1750 and undated, the earlier notes probably taken by Joseph Hawley's father, and by Joseph Hawley, including his own bible commentaries. Also present are Hawley's brief legal notes on a dispute between a Mr. French and Joseph Allen of Deerfield, [1750], and two undated texts in Latin, possibly from Hawley's student days.
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Date created: 1653