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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1110 (March 20, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Discussion of the Pennsylvania lottery and announcement of prize amounts. Section reserved for announcing the indentured...

GLC06670.136

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1111 (March 27, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. News of a book burning in Vienna due to the unfavorable portrayal of Bohemian history and the empress queen herself. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4....

GLC06670.137

to Richard W. Hutson

Mentions that W. Douglas, a Presbyterian minister, intends to become the Chaplain of their church. Charles worries about his family's safety, because of the reported brutality of the Union soldiers. Comments that the Union is determined to...

GLC08165.70

[Slavery]

Negro woman "Jane" seeks a writ of "Homine Replegiando" (asking the Court to return to freedom) against Edward Worrall.

GLC08356

[Words and music for the song "John Brown's Body"]

Transcription of the verses and the chorus for the song "John Brown's Body," with music. Also lists three Civil War regiments in which Jenkins served. One of these, the Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, was the unit that invented the song....

GLC02484.01

Daily chronicle & sentinel. [Vol. 27, no. 355 (December 6, 1863)]

Yankee Estimates of Battle of Chattanooga, Siege of Knoxville.
A detailed letter from Atlanta describes the recent mayoral election. An editorial implores the Confederate Congress to improve the currency situation through taxation. An article details...

GLC05959.07.04

to Alexander M. Ross

Encloses "one of the Commissions issued to my Father's men. I know of the existence of only two of them. These were brought back by my brother Owen," who wishes they be returned once Ross has made copies of them. One commission was signed by John...

GLC03007.05

to Alexander M. Ross

Discussing newspaper articles related to her father, John Brown, and others' opinions of him. "I find now, since all the men who had any knowledge of his affairs, have written recollections and confessions, that he told me more of his plans than he...

GLC03007.18

to Alexander M. Ross

Thanks him for offering to help her daughters attend college. Says Bertha is too ill to go, but hopes Vivian, her eldest, may be able to attend, and awaits Vivian's reply. Second half of letter, dated 25 December, states that Vivian cannot attend...

GLC03007.28

to Alexander M. Ross

Discusses her financial struggles and John Brown. Her husband "has not earned a dollar for more than a year" since their is no work to be found, and her crops fared poorly. May try to write articles about her father for money, though "so many...

GLC03007.35