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Letter by Ivory Hovey (1714-1803) from Manomet (Plymouth), Mass., to Anne Hovey (1754- ), 1770 December 10
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Advice to his daughter on coming of age.
Dates:
1770 December 10
Letter by Ivory Hovey (1714-1803) from Manomet (Plymouth), Mass., to Olive J. Hovey ( -1805), Rochester (Mattapoisett), Mass., 1775 July 17
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
explains necessity of being away from her, attends ministers’ meeting.
Dates:
1775 July 17
Letter by Samuel Hovey (1750- ) from Roxbury, Mass. to Ivory Hovey (1714-1803), Manomet (Plymouth), Mass., 1776 March 30
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
describes evacuation of Boston.
Dates:
1776 March 30
Letter by Samuel Hovey (1750- ) from New York, to Ivory Hovey (1714-1803), Manomet (Plymouth), Mass., 1776 July 10
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
describes reading of Declaration of Independence in Heath’s Brigade.
Dates:
1776 July 10
Letter by Dominicus Hovey (1740- ) from Harlem, N.Y., to Ivory Hovey (1714-1803), Manomet (Plymouth), Mass., 1776 October 7
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
describes evacuation of N.Y., marching, etc.
Dates:
1776 October 7
Letter by Ivory Hovey (1748- ) from Fort Miller, N.Y., to Ivory Hovey (1714-1803), Manomet (Plymouth), Mass., 1777 July 27
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
describes retreat from Fort Ticonderoga.
Dates:
1777 July 27
Letter by Olive H. Pope (1746- ) from Wells, Maine, to Ivory Hovey (1714-1803), Manomet (Plymouth), Mass., 1781 May 25
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
describes life on newly purchased farm.
Dates:
1781 May 25
Memoranda by Ivory Hovey (1714-1803) on charitable contributions made over the years, with letters to Mrs. Augusta R. Hovey and Rev. Alvah Hovey from Laura I. Curtis., 1748-1795, 1857
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Group:
The family material includes four letters from Ivory Hovey’s sons, Dominicus (b. 1740), Ivory III (b. 1748), and Samuel (b. 1750), who took part in or witnessed notable events of the Revolution. They described evacuation of New York (1783), Siege of Boston (1775-1776), the reading of the Declaration of Independence to the troops, and the American retreat from Ticonderoga. Ivory also received a letter in 1781 from his daughter, Olive (Hovey) Pope (b. 1746), living in Wells, Maine, that...
Dates:
1748-1795, 1857
Receipt by Ivory Hovey to William Hight for sundry notes (copy by Josiah Hubbard), 1782 April 2
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Dates:
1782 April 2
Receipt by Ivory Hovey to William Hight for sundry notes (copy by Josiah Hubbard), 1782 June 1
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Dates:
1782 June 1