1769 Fitchbury (Mass.) Town Rec. (1898) I. 60 Laid out a two Roade Rode begining at the Northwesterdly Corner of Cornet Thos Carters Land.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 223 A northwestwardly course.

1850 O. Turner Pioneer Hist. Holland Purchase Western N.Y. 62 Here the trail branched:—one branch taking a north-westwardly direction, re-crossed the creek below the village.

1857 R. Owen Key to Geol. of Globe 26 There appears to have been a successive national development, maturity, and decay, periodical in character, chiefly progressive in a north-westwardly direction.

1990 D. H. Dye & C. A. Cox Towns & Temples along Mississippi 196 When De Soto departed from Chickasaw, going in a northwestwardly direction, he came to Alibamu.

1752 Pennsylvania Gaz. 25 June A certain plantation at Beaver Creek..by the highway, 13 miles from York northwestwardly towards Carlisle.

1825 N. Amer. Rev. July 182 The country surrounding Lake Superior and extending north-westwardly to Lake Winnepeek.

1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 209/1 The country slopes north-westwardly from the mountains.

1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood xxvi Looking off, northwestwardly, across the head of the Pond.

1907 Science 19 July 82/2 It would obviously be necessary to..take a shorter route north-westwardly to the northern part of Lake of the Woods.

1940 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 20 475 Let us then in our mind's eye..stand in that part of the city known as the ‘Back Street’ and face north-westwardly.

1997 Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) (Nexis) 24 Aug. f5 All one has to do is stand outside the old courthouse and gaze northwestwardly to realize the aesthetic importance of the..restoration project.