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Cushing, William 1732-1810

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Works: 32 works in 75 publications in 1 language and 1,448 library holdings
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Forwarding the court's opinion in the matter of the Complaint of the Governor of South Carolina that the Massachusetts judiciary had illegally interfered with the return of eight runaway slaves; the opinion states that the negroes had been unlawfully imprisoned but that that act in no wise constituted an infringement of the rights of either the U.S. or the State of South Carolina.
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Notes of cases taken by Judge William Cushing during his tenure on the Massachusetts superior and supreme courts. Transcribed from the original [HLS MS 4083].
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Two letters regarding Cushing's salary.
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Notes of cases taken by Judge William Cushing during his tenure on the Massachusetts superior and supreme courts.
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Personal and legal papers of the Cushing family of Hingham, Scituate and Boston, Mass., 1657-1835. Includes deeds, receipts, account books, and wills of John, Jeremiah, Nathaniel, Thomas and other members of the Cushing family, 1657-1750s; shipping records for the schooner Conclusion and sloop Charming kept by John Cushing, 1750-70; correspondence between John Cushing and his children Charles and William Cushing related to personal and business matters, 1761-90s, including a letter written by William to John, 1776, describing his case of smallpox in Boston; deeds for land in Scituate kept by Roland Cushing, 1780s; papers related to William Cushing's tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court, 1790s; and an appraisal of Charles Cushing's land, 1835.
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Judicial notebook kept by William Cushing, Chief Justice of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court, in 1783 regarding the case of the Commonwealth v. Jennison. The case, which involved a black slave Quock Walker, resulted in Cushing's ruling that slavery was inconsistent with the Mass. State Constitution of 1780.
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Scrapbook of William Cushing containing newspaper clippings from New York papers of the first "33 numbers of the Foederalist" cf., verso of front cover. Authorship for each essay is assigned in notes presumably by Cushing.
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Manuscripts collected by Charles Lowell regarding colonial New England, politics, and the Revolutionary War. In particular, the papers of politicians: Lowell's father John Lowell, Joshua Brackett, Joseph Whipple, William Whipple, and James Lovell. Topics discussed include relations of the colonies with England (1729); a plan of union for the colonies for their mutual defense and security; politics; and financial and other aspects of the Revolution, in particular New Hampshire's strained financial situation as a result of the war. Also, the Declaration of Independence, a state lottery in Pennsylvania to raise money for the cause, Shays's Rebellion, West Indian imports to the United States, and the U.S. court system. Correspondents include Thomas Dwight, Robert Traill, William Cushing, Theodore Sedgwick, Samuel Sewall, Jeremy Belknap, Robert Morris, Caleb Strong, and Jonathan Sewall.
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Forty-one letters to Cushing and his wife, Mehetable Dodge Cushing, of Pembroke, Mass., from Bathsheba Whitman (1777-1864), who operated a school with S. Clapp at which several of the Cushing children were educated, relating to the school, its students, teachers (some Quakers), curriculum, and other topics; other papers of the family; letters and papers of Charles, John, Thomas, and William Cushing; and papers of the family of Nathaniel Cushing (1768-1827), of Scituate, Mass. Includes letters from Thomas Cushing to John Hancock, papers of William Cushing relating to the estate of Andrew Oliver, and letters relating to transatlantic voyages.
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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.
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Charge to the Grand Jury of York County, District of Maine, in June 1780, from the chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, William Cushing.
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Scrapbook of Arthur Prentice Rugg containing pamphlets, letters, articles and addresses, and copies of manuscripts relating to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Cushing and the Cushing family. Included are ms. addresses by Grafton Dulaney Cushing and Harvey Hunter Pratt. Many of the items relate to the erection of a tablet to William Cushing in 1919 by the Scituate (Mass.) Historical Society.
 
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English (75)