Hollingworth Family Papers
Collection Number: 6694
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Hollingworth Family Papers,
1812-1837
Collection Number:
6694
Creator:
Hollingworth Family
Quantity:
0.2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, records (documents) .
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence mostly received by William Rawcliff, largley
written by the Joseph Hollingworth, along with his father George and brother Jabez,
John, and James.
Language:
Collection material in English
Jabez Hollingworth, a young English laborer, left Huddersfield in October, 1826,
bound for New York. He was soon joined by his brothers and a sister, his father, an
aunt and uncle, and several cousins and acquaintances. Often separated, the family
kept in touch by letter. The family settled first in Leicester, Mass. and worked at
Leicester Manufacturing Company, a maker of woolen cloth. By 1830 some were living
in Southbridge, Mass. and working at Hamilton Woolen Company. About the same time
others moved to Woodstock, Conn., where they took a three-year lease on the Muddy
Brook-Pond Factory. They apparently did not buy the factory and later letters find
the family dispersed to various places.
Letters are from Jabez Hollingworth, John Hollingworth, John P. Barnett, J.
Wadsworth, Joseph Hollingworth, George Hollingworth, James Hollingworth, Tiffany,
Sayles and Hitchcock, Boston, Mass., Bradley Clay, and Joseph Haigh. Correspondence
is addressed to William Rawcliff, Tiffany, Sayles and Hitchcock, S.A. Hitchcock, and
Hamilton Woolen Company. The letters provide a view of the immigrant labor force in
America and record both personal and business activities. These letters were
published in 1969 by Thomas W. Leavitt, former director of the Merrimack Valley
Textile Museum.
PROVENANCE:
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Nancy W. Bender.
American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of Nancy W. Bender.
Names:
Hollingworth family.
Hollingworth, George.
Hollingworth, James.
Hollingworth, John.
Hollingworth, Joseph.
Hollingworth, Jabez
Hamilton Woolen Company.
Leicester Manufacturing Company (Leicester,
Mass.)
Muddy Brook-Pond Factory (Woodstock, Conn.)
Tiffany, Sayles and Hitchcock (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects:
Commercial agents
Immigrants
Industries
Manufacturers' agents
Textile industry
Textile workers
Unemployment
Wool industry
Woolen and worsted manufacture
Geographic Subjects:
Huddersfield (England)
Woodstock (Conn.)
Form and Genre Terms:
Correspondence
Records (documents)
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Hollingworth Family Papers #6694. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1812 | |
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November 15, 1812
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1812 | |
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December 26, 1812
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1814 | |
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July 5, 1814
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1826 | |
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October 9, 1826
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| Box 1 | Folder 4A | 1826 | |
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November 8, 1826. Photocopy of a transcription of a letter.
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1827 | |
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April 1, 1827
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1827 | |
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August 11, 1827
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 | ||
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Circa 1828.
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 | 1828 | |
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March 7, 1828
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 | 1828 | |
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May 20, 1828
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 | 1828 | |
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June 28, 1828
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 | 1828 | |
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September 21, 1828
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 | 1828 | |
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December 7, 1828(?). The year is not certain, but the context indicates that
it is 1828.
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 | 1829 | |
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February 8, 1829, with a postscript poem written March 4, 1829.
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 | 1829 | |
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September 6, 1829
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 | 1829 | |
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October 21, 1829
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 | 1829 | |
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November 7, 1829
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 | 1830 | |
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Three separate letters written on the same paper, all to William Rawcliff.
Jabez Hollingworth's is dated January 15, 1830. George Hollingworth's is
dated January 17, 1830. Joseph Hollingworth's is also dated January 17,
1830.
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 | 1830 | |
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January 21, 1830
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 | 1830 | |
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Two separate letters on one sheet, both to William Rawcliff. Joseph
Hollingworth's is dated March 13, 1830. Jabez Hollingworth's is dated March
14, 1830.
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 | 1830 | |
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April 15, 1830. Includes undated fragment. Photocopies only.
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 | 1830 | |
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April 16, 1830. Photocopy only.
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 | 1830 | |
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April 18, 1830. Includes addition dated May 23, 1830.
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 | 1830 | |
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July 4, 1830
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 | 1830 | |
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July 18, 1830
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 | 1830 | |
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September 5, 1830.
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 | 1830 | |
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June 15, 1830 and September 7, 1830
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 | 1830 | |
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November 2, 1830
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 | 1831 | |
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February 27, 1831
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| Box 1 | Folder 29 | 1831 | |
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July 17, 1831
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 | 1831 | |
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August 1, 1831
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 | 1831 | |
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October 10, 1831. Photocopy only.
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| Box 1 | Folder 32 | 1831 | |
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December 20, 1831
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| Box 1 | Folder 33 | 1832 | |
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October 7, 1832
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| Box 1 | Folder 34 | 1835 | |
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October 29, 1835
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| Box 1 | Folder 35 | 1837 | |
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May 2, 1837. Photocopy only
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