Ivory Hovey papers
Dates
- 1732-1798
Creator
- Hovey, Ivory, 1714-1803 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
R. Stanton Avery Special Collections material is non-circulating, requires staff retrieval, and is available to NEHGS members (Research level and above) during normal library hours.
Biographical / Historical
Ivory Hovey, the son of Capt. Ivory Hovey and Anne Pingree, was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts on 3 July 1714, and died on 4 November 1803. The younger Ivory Hovey attended Harvard College with the class of 1735. After graduation, he taught school at Marlborough. He was the minister at the Second (West) Parish of Rochester (later the First Congregational Church of Mattapoisett) from 1740 to 1769. He then became the minister at the Second Church of Plymouth at Manomet in 1770, and remained there until his death. Three of his sons served in the Revolution, and a daughter settled with her husband on the Maine frontier. A second daughter married Abner Bartlett of Manomet, through whom the papers descended to the donor, Col. George G. Bartlett, Jr.
Ivory Hovey married Olive Jordan (1722-1805) in 1739. They had five children who lived to adulthood: Dominicus (1740- ); Olive (1746- ), who married Major Isaac Pope; Ivory (1748-1818); Samuel (1750- ); and Anne (1754-1810, who married Abner Bartlett.
Extent
28 item(s) (1 half archival box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Correspondence, sermons, ecclesiastical council decisions, church records, vital records, and other papers, relating to family affairs and Hovey's congregations. Includes letters from his sons, Dominicus (b. 1740), Ivory III (b. 1748), and Samuel (b. 1750), written from Massachusetts and New York during the Revolution, describing the evacuation of New York (1783), Siege of Boston (1775-1776), reading of the Declaration of Independence to troops in New York, and the American retreat from Ticonderoga; letter (1781) from his daughter, Olive (Hovey) Pope (b. 1746), of Wells, Me., detailing wilderness life; notations of marriages and baptisms performed by Hovey in Plymouth; and records and registers of First Congregational churches in Mattapoisett and New Bedford, Mass., Second Congregational Church in Plymouth, and United Church of Christ, Little Compton, R.I. Other persons represented include Othnaiel Campbell, Israel Cheever, Hovey's father, Ivory Hovey (1682-1759), Jonathan Moore, and Chandler Robbins.
Arrangement
- Sub-group I. Family papers (Arranged chronologically)
- Sub-group II. Church papers (Arranged chronologically)
- Series A. Letters and documents
- Series B. Records, sermons
- Sub-group III. Miscellaneous
Other Finding Aids
The finding aid for this collection is available online in American Ancestors Digital Collections; folder level control.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift; 1983 December 1; Col. George G. Bartlett; Accession #831201.
Additional Physical Form Available
Also available online in New England's Hidden Histories.
This resource is available both in print format at the NEHGS library and online as an NEHGS Database. To access the online database, please use the link in this catalog record.
Varying Form of Title
NEHGS database of marriages and baptisms has title: Plymouth, MA : Marriages and Baptisms of Rev. Ivory Hovey, 1775–1803
Processing Information
Processed December 14, 1983; Nathaniel N. Shipton.
Updated 2017 March; Sally Benny.
Creator
- Hovey, Ivory, 1714-1803 (Person)
- Author
- Nathaniel N. Shipton
- Date
- 1983 December 14
- Description rules
- Rda
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Repository
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