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to unknown re: ordering Saratoga water

The recipient's name is illegible. With a note on verso regarding son Smith (?).

GLC04675.12

to William L. Macy re: speech of John C. Calhoun

GLC06780

to John Branch

Letter of introduction of Mr. Groves of New York to Secretary of the Navy Branch. Written as Secretary of State.

GLC00496.241

[Pardon of William Field for violations of maritime law]

Countersigned by Secretary of State John Forsyth. Field, master of the schooner Boston, was convicted of illegally landing a seaman and for omitting to deposit his register at the U.S. Commercial Agency at the port of Aux Cayes in Haiti. Since he...

GLC00068.05

[Presidential authority to affix the seal to the release of George Gausman]

Authority given to Secretary of State John Forsyth.

GLC00076.02

to William C. Bouck

Advises Bouck to make a speedy decision one way or the other to resolve a scandal in Albany involving the state's printing. Remarks that it would be far worse to delay a decision. Discusses at length how to conduct the executive branch of the...

GLC00097

[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Charles Green, slave of Ann Seddon, Stafford County, Virginia].

GLC00153

to the Senate of the United States

Instructions for complying with the act of July 1, 1836 concerning a bequest made by James Smithson to the United States government. Asks Congress to attend to properly fulfilling the object of the bequest. Informs that last July the Secretary of...

GLC00198

[Last page of 1838 message to Congress]

"Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to the expediency of vesting such a power in the Judiciary in a system of Government constituted like that of the United States, all must agree that these disparaging discrepancies in the law and in the...

GLC03994

to Francisco Pacon

Written by Van Buren as Secretary of State. Acknowledges Pacon's letter of 11 April 1829 which provided "a List of all the Grants of Land, purporting to have been made in the Floridas, by the Government of His Catholic Majesty." This diplomatic...

GLC04058

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Confederated Tribes of Sac & Fox Indians

GLC04099.06

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Ioway Tribe of Indians

GLC04099.07

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Creek Tribe of Indians

GLC04099.08

[Orders for transport of the Amistad captives]

Countersigned by John Forsyth as Secretary of State. President Van Buren writes to Norris Wilcox, Marshal of the District of Connecticut. States: "The Marshal of the United States for the District of Connecticut will deliver over to Lieutenant John...

GLC05636.01

to William L. Marcy

Describes his resentment at the Senate's failure, for political reasons, to confirm him for a diplomatic post, and his reluctant agreement to stand for election as candidate for Jackson's Vice-President, despite his "strong aversion" to doing so and...

GLC06689

Pardon of George Anderson (c/s John Forsyth)

Convicted of an assault and battery on Captain Hilliard of Ship Draper

GLC06868.02

to A. C. Paige

Discusses slavery and the Union in relationship to politics. States, in part: "Whilst we cling to the Union we must yield to our sister states all that was intended to be secured to them by the Constitution." Also discusses publication of the letter...

GLC00529.04

to Henry D. Gilpin

The letter discusses electoral politics. Written from Martin Van Buren's estate, Lindenwald, in Kinderhook, New York.

GLC00655.05

Pardon of Mary Scott, convicted of stealing

GLC07766

to Nicholas Biddle

Writes to Nicholas Biddle, the President of the Bank of the United States, and encloses President Andrew Jackson's commissions of four directors of the Bank. The new directors include George M. Dallas, Benjamin W. Richards, Benjamin Bailey, and John...

GLC04619.01

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to seizures or search of American vessels, & c.

House doc. no. 115. Pertains to "Search or seizure of American vessels on coast of Africa, & c."

GLC05163

to J. & W. Gelsey & Co.

Business letter discussing farm produce from his estate, Lindenwald. Written from Lindenwald on blue paper.

GLC00089.02

to Cornelius Miller

Planning for upcoming elections in New York State politics. "You must defeat them at all hazards. I doubt the policy of the course you pursue...they will as they did here & in Troy bring up any thing that wears hair without relation to politics or...

GLC08969

to unidentified General [possibly Lewis Cass]

"We have been actively opposed to each other in the last political contest and ... will probably be so for the rest of our lives. I want you once for all to understand that differences of that character between men whom I otherwise respect does not...

GLC09110

to Dolley Madison

Invites Dolly Madison to dinner with him, judges from the Supreme Court, and some of her friends.

GLC02793.021

to Judge Aaron Van Der Poel re: New York politics and matrimony

Written as President. Van Buren says he is lonely and worried about being exposed "to that greatest of dangers matrimony."

GLC02793.022