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Date Created
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Autograph letter signed

to Lady Hesketh

circa 1773-1790

Cowper, William, 1731-1800

Declines recipient's offer to send salmon to Olney where the price is prohibitively expensive. Discusses local matters.

GLC00496.149
Collection Item
Document signed

[List of land sales]

circa 1777

Signed by Abraham Alexander, Hezekiah Alexander, David Reese, Eph. Brisard, William Wilson, Edward Giles and John M. Alexander. Records eleven deeds dated 1772-1777. Place of writ inferred from several co-signers' participation in the signing of...

GLC00496.208
Collection Item
Autograph document signed

[Bond owed to John Muir]

19 November 1774

Jenings, Daniel, fl. 1745-1774

Counter-signed by Robert H. Harrison and John Parke Custis.

GLC00496.179
Collection Item
Autograph note signed

Presentation page of a Richard Twiss document

circa 1850

Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870

Presentation page of "Travels through Portugal and Spain, in 1772 and 1773," by Richard Twiss, including signed note by William Gilmore Simms. Consists of first blank endpaper of the book which has apparently been torn out; includes an autograph...

GLC00496.225
Collection Item
Manuscript letter signed

to Committee of Correspondence of the County of Berks

April 18, 1775

Clymer, George, 1739-1813

Also signed by Joseph Reed, John Cadwalader, Thomas Mifflin, Jonathan B. Smith, John Benezet, James Mease, John Nixon, and Samuel Meredith. Circular to the committees of Pennsylvania encouraging the formation of military associations in each county...

GLC00496.022
Collection Item
Document signed

[Resolution to Colonel Anthony Wayne]

February 12, 1776

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Transcribed by Charles Thomson Secretary of the Continental Congress from 1774-1788. Resolve requesting all colonels of the Pennsylvania battalions to send a report detailing the number condition of the enlisted men as well as the places where they...

GLC00496.031
Collection Item
Autograph document signed

to The Honorable Council of Safety of North Carolina

10 July 1776

Rutherford, Griffith, 1721-1805

Describes Indian unrest in the frontier. Hopes to negotiate a treaty. Awaits instructions from the Council. Rutherford served as a general in the Revolution and in 1776 was successful in subduing the Cherokee Nation in North Carolina.

GLC00496.081
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Richard Varick

July 31, 1776

Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804

Written by General Schuyler as commander of Northern Department to Captain Varick as deputy muster master general of the Northern army. Schuyler says he only received Varick's letter on July 27, 1776 yesterday afternoon. If cannot get certain...

GLC00496.082
Collection Item
Manuscript document signed

Certified extract of the minutes of Congress re: committee to buy blankets

25 September 1776

United States. Continental Congress.

Appointing a committee to buy blankets &c for troops. Names of members at end

GLC00496.090
Collection Item
Manuscript letter signed

to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

October 23, 1776

Andre, fl. 1776

Requesting permission to ship twenty-five barrels of flour. Written to Jenifer while president of the Maryland Council of Safety. Andre was most likely a French merchant.

GLC00496.269

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