Series II. Wade Family Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters by both Nathaniel Wade Sr. and Jr., as well as limited amounts of correspondence from disparate family members. This series includes two letters from George Washington to Colonel Wade dated September 25, and 26, 1780; also included in the same folder are photocopies made at a later date.

Series II. Wade Family Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters by both Nathaniel Wade Sr. and Jr., as well as limited amounts of correspondence from disparate family members. This series includes two letters from George Washington to Colonel Wade dated September 25, and 26, 1780; also included in the same folder are photocopies made at a later date.

Series II. Wade Family Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters by both Nathaniel Wade Sr. and Jr., as well as limited amounts of correspondence from disparate family members. This series includes two letters from George Washington to Colonel Wade dated September 25, and 26, 1780; also included in the same folder are photocopies made at a later date.

Series III. Miscellaneous Wade Family Papers contains materials reflecting an array of the family’s activities over the late 18th and the 19th centuries including rental agreements and receipts, deeds of will, a hand-written account of the family’s genealogy beginning in the early 19th century, newspaper clippings, material related to the family’s involvement in the Ipswich Historical Society, and business papers of Nathaniel Treadwell 3rd.

Series III. Miscellaneous Wade Family Papers contains materials reflecting an array of the family’s activities over the late 18th and the 19th centuries including rental agreements and receipts, deeds of will, a hand-written account of the family’s genealogy beginning in the early 19th century, newspaper clippings, material related to the family’s involvement in the Ipswich Historical Society, and business papers of Nathaniel Treadwell 3rd.

Series III. Miscellaneous Wade Family Papers contains materials reflecting an array of the family’s activities over the late 18th and the 19th centuries including rental agreements and receipts, deeds of will, a hand-written account of the family’s genealogy beginning in the early 19th century, newspaper clippings, material related to the family’s involvement in the Ipswich Historical Society, and business papers of Nathaniel Treadwell 3rd.

Series V. Joseph Hodgkins Military and Family Papers contains a roll of the Ipswich Minutemen, family legal records, including a contract relating to church pew use, nineteenth century historical society publications, an orderly book, and various military papers. The legal records speak to the debt of Hodgkins at the end of his life.

Series V. Joseph Hodgkins Military and Family Papers contains a roll of the Ipswich Minutemen, family legal records, including a contract relating to church pew use, nineteenth century historical society publications, an orderly book, and various military papers. The legal records speak to the debt of Hodgkins at the end of his life.

Subseries B. Orderly Books contains three orderly books documenting camp life, including court martial proceedings.

Subseries A. Joseph Hodgkins to Sarah Hodgkins includes a substantial number of letters from Hodgkins to his second wife Sarah throughout the course of the war, from 1775, to 1779, including a letter from the Battle of Harlem Heights and three from Valley Forge.