The Hawley family papers consist of letters, certificates and receipts of Anne and Asa Hawley of Union City, Michigan. The letters, from relatives in Ohio and New York, primarily discuss family matters. Also included are land deeds granting government lands in New York to Lewis Hawley (1839), a lightning insurance policy for Asa Hawley's house (1857), and various receipts.

This collection consists of two deeds for land in Michigan owned by the Hawley family. One is a certificate for register for public lands in Ionia, purchased by Don Hawley and David B. Webster. The second is a quitclaim deed for the transfer of property in Crystal Township, Montcalm County from Lucius Hawley to his wife, Elizabeth C. Hawley.