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The Colonel and the Quaker or the Return of the Forefathers

Fictional story of a colonel and a Quaker who return from colonial times to view the world as it was in the early 1900s. The colonel is Alexander Anderson and the book mentions his French and Indian War and Revolutionary War commissions (GLC01450...

GLC01450.007.04

Extract of a letter from Pennyslvania received by the pacquet, that came last from thence

Gives a report on the situation in America. Mentions Quakers and people who "also seem to think their ale is at stake." States that "Col. Washington is gone to New York..." possibly involved in the attack at Fort DuQuesne. Gilt edges. Watermarked...

GLC09054.15

An act to Compleat the New Jersey Regiment to Six Hundred and Sixty Six effective volunteers, Officers included.

Document aims to raise additional men for the French & Indian War, with inducements including pardons. Details provisions for recruiting minors, slaves, and Indians. Additionally, allows Quakers to affirm, rather than swear, an oath. Signed by Hardy...

GLC00903

to Samuel Joseph May

Greenleaf invites May to the quarterly meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Lynn, Massachusetts. He indicates that "Stanton, Garrison, Loring, Sewall, everybody wishes thee to be with us on the occasion." Mentions a Missouri statement...

GLC00979

to John Wayles Eppes

Written as Vice-President to his son-in-law. Jefferson discusses the Logan incident, in which George Logan, a Philadelphia Quaker, attempted to negotiate differences between the United States and the French Directory on his own initiative (the Logan...

GLC00148