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The daily richmond enquirer. [Vol. 36, no. 96 (March 24, 1864)]

Proclamation of Jefferson Davis for a day of fasting and prayer. Article on the reorganization of the Maryland Line. Article titled "Charleston Impregnable from the Sea Approaches," which states "Charleston will not be taken from the sea approaches...

GLC05959.80.07

Indictment against Benjamin Wallace for rape (signed on verso only)

Signed endorsement as attorney on verso. (Clerical signature on the front.) Indictment against Benjamin Wallace who, "not having the fear of God before his eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil," committed rape.

GLC06000

to unknown

Moton, President of the Tuskegee Institute, reports on "[t]he lynching record for 1921," based on the research of Monroe N. Work, in charge of the Department of Records and Research at the Institute. States that in 1921, "...there were 72 instances...

GLC06068

20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people."...

GLC06135.05

Minutes of meeting of Vice Regal War Junta and Ministry of Treasury (in Spanish).

Includes a 32 point report by Serra on missionaries and soldiers of Ancillary presidios. Discusses discipline, temptations of flesh, criminal activities, supplies and attempts to separate military and religious aspects of the order in California.

GLC06295

to Aaron Hobart

Asks Hobart to verify in the next letter whether it is true or not true that Albert Smith has stolen $20,000 from the public.

GLC06313.04.034

to Aaron Hobart

Albert Smith has sent the papers by Albert (his son) with his signature and would like Hobart to finish them and mail "them in a neat package" by Monday. The papers were in regard to Smith being replaced as a "collector," probably of taxes. He...

GLC06313.04.035

to Aaron Hobart

Shares his views with Hobart on "the nomination of my [Albert Smith] successor as Collector," Mr. Cary. Asks Hobart to inform his successor, whoever it ends up being, of the Revenue Department's instructions and everything else that pertains to...

GLC06313.04.036

to Aaron Hobart

Explains that "his fate is hard indeed." Notes that R. Eells has Hobart's account and that "the money for the sales of the stamps" has been received. Smith was being replaced as a "collector," probably of taxes. He was earlier accused of stealing...

GLC06313.04.037

to Aaron Hobart

Discusses a legal case against him. Mentions that there has been "unfair impression & representation" cast upon him and thus, asks Hobart for several favors, such as to have a conference with K. Whitman, to have permission to visit his family, to...

GLC06313.04.041

to Aaron Hobart

Discusses the bankruptcy law being considered by Congress. States that his opinion is at odds with Hobart's. Holmes contends that it was a "universal understanding of the people at the time of the ratifying of the Constitution" that a clause...

GLC06313.04.132

to Charles C. Duryee re: preventing crime

"We ought to do much more than is now done towards the abolition of the conditions that tend to breed crime." On "Outlook" stationery, with 6 words added by T.R. on p. 2.

GLC06463

An Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family

Printed by Samuel H. Smith. Jefferson's separately printed appendix to his Notes on Virginia, containing the evidence upon which he charged Capt. Cresap with the murder of Logan's family and other peaceful Indians. The appendix was printed to...

GLC05706

to Clara M. Miller

Says he was on a "prospecting tour." Says she wouldn't recognize him with bronzed hands, two weeks' beard, etc. Prices & problems making money: "I feel very much disheartened and discouraged and if things do not turn out better I don't know what we...

GLC05755.010

to Clara M. Miller

re: Dog injuries. Robberies. Skating people. Making caps (with drawings). Detailed weather report. And says "The past 4 or 5 days have been very beautiful indeed and the atmosphere is very clean and bracing it puts new life in one and makes your...

GLC05755.023

to the Presidency and High Council of Weber Stake

[Author from related document.] Lists five reasons disputing charges that he attacked P. B. Peterson with a hatchet and using abusive language on August 2nd and again on Aug. 16th.

GLC05756.115

to the Presidency and High Council of Weber Stake

Charges against Cyrus Rawson for using abusive language and attacking him with a hatchet on August 2nd and August 16th. The numbers 1, 2, 3 are written in the margins near each of the charges.

GLC05756.116

to the Presidency and High Council of Weber Stake

Changing his statement regarding the case between Cyrus Rawson and P. B. Peterson. He now states that there was 15 feet between the two men when Cyrus picked up the hatchet.

GLC05756.127

[General orders no. 101 regarding the trial of a free African American man]

Isaac Kirk, referred to as "a free man of color" and "a resident and citizen of the United States," is charged with, convicted of, and sentenced to hang for the rape of Maria Antonias Gallegas, a Mexican woman. Duplicate of GLC00911.02.

GLC06366.02

to unknown

State inferred from content. General Ashby reports, "Mr. Duke who has been arrested as a spy and upon his own evidence has done acts that will establish beyond doubt his felony... He is a dangerous person..." A pencil note at the bottom of the page...

GLC02461.01

Warrant for arrest of Moses Bishop

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.10

to Daniel Hale

Asks Secretary of State Hale to prepare a pardon for Jacobus J. Low. Low had been convicted in Ulster County of receiving two barrels of stolen flour, and sentenced to pay a $50 fine and serve 4 months in jail. Written by Jay as Governor of New...

GLC02482

[Sentence of court martial on Captain Eliphalet Thorp]

Thorp was tried for "abusing and plundering Margaret Weyman" and found not guilty of abuse but guilty of theft. The theft was made because Thorp had property stolen from him by Margaret's husband, who was "a vile Tory." Thorp was admonished....

GLC02499.19

[The Petition of Michael Theyser of the City of New York, Innkeeper]

Deposition accusing Joseph Northrop and several others of an assault on Theyser while attempting to unlawfully search his inn for a runaway (possibly an enslaved person).

GLC02503.12

to unknown

Informs that he has read Mr. Edson's affidavit concerning the pardon of a man named Cummings. Discusses the pardon case.

GLC02505.28