Manuscript Group 358
MRS. JAMES LEWIS HOOK AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION
1752-1810
22 items
Mrs. James Lewis Hook was a collector
of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence.The collection has letters, accounts, legal papers and other documents collected for their autograph value dating between 1752-1810 by the following signers of the Declaration of Independence:
- Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire
- Samuel Chase of Maryland
- George Clymer, John Morton, Robert Morris, and George Ross of Pennsylvania
- John Hancock of Massachusetts
- Benjamin Harrison of Virginia
- Francis Hopkinson of New Jersey
- Thomas Heyward and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina
- Francis Lewis of New York
- George Reed and Thomas McKean of Delaware
- George Walton of Georgia.
Also included is a 1764 document by Rutledge's brother John Rutledge of South
Carolina.
- General Autograph Files, 1752-1810 (22 items) {#358m.1}
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