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Rev. Gideon Hawley Journal and letterbook, 1754-1756

 Item — Box: 26
Scope and Contents NOTE : THIS IS A REPRODUCTION - ORIGINAL IS HELD AT Congregational Library and Archives, BOSTON, MA The first volume chronicles Rev. Hawley's time as a missionary traveling through "the Country of the Six Nations" — what is now western New York and Pennsylvania, that were still largely populated by Native American tribes. Rev. Hawley kept track of the villages he visited, people he interacted with, and the Bible passages on which he preached.Includes handwritten...
Dates: 1754-1806

Rev. Gideon Hawley Journal and letterbook, circa 1753-1795

 Item — Box: 26
Scope and Contents NOTE : THIS IS A REPRODUCTION - ORIGINAL IS HELD AT Congregational Library and Archives, BOSTON, MARev. Hawley's second volume contains copies of correspondence referred to in vol. 1, financial records, and a continuation of his travelogue from "the Country of the Six Nations". His movements were often hampered by early battles in the French and Indian War, which he also describes.The first few pages in this book contain a later 19th-century letter to a genealogist...
Dates: 1754-1806

Journals, 1752-1757, of Gideon Hawley and certain letters

 Item — Box: 26
Scope and Contents NOTE : THIS IS A REPRODUCTIONCover reads : "Journals, 1752-1757, of Guideon [sic] Hawley and certain letters. Transcribed by Foster Disinger 1950-1960 from the originals. Microfilmed by J.T. Newcomb, Feb.1962"Includes [at back] pp.50-74 from "Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the year M,DCC,XCV" : "A letter from Rev. Gideon Hawley of Marshpee, containing and account of his servicesamong the Indians of Massachusetts and New-York, and a narrative...
Dates: 1754-1806