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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 953 (March 16, 1747)]

Signed by A. Petes. Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Discusses a skirmish between American troops and French Canadians on Île-Saint-Jean. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved...

GLC06670.093

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 994 (December 29, 1747)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 1 through 4. Letter regarding the government sanctioned fast. Extracts from "London Magazine" discussing self-examination and the...

GLC06670.124

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

to her sister

Addressed to "My Dearly Loved Sister," probably referring to one of John Brown's daughters at North Elba. Expresses sadness at the death of Martha Evelyn Brewster Brown, Oliver Brown's wife, and remembers Oliver's love for her. Sends her condolences...

GLC06348.02

to Mary Moore Kelly

Comments on the difficulty of raising children. Mentions an accident in which a horse kicked their slave boy in the jaw. Moore is the wife of Robert E. Moore, John Moore's brother.

GLC04195.57

to Anson Rood

Discusses the controversy that developed after Harret Beecher Stowe cited Parker as a pro-slavery preacher in her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Parker, claiming his statements were misrepresented, threatened to sue for libel, and a scandal began. Two...

GLC08965.01

to his father Tobias Gibson

Randall describes a prisoner exchange between Grant and Cheatham. He comments that Grant "had somewhat the appearance of a gentlemen but the rest seemed to me impudent upstarts--some made confidence in the 'on to New Orleans' intention and all of...

GLC04501.013

To the hands employed or expect to be employed on Mr. Gibson's plantations

Letter from the office of the Provost Marshall orders the hands on the three plantations to go to work whether or not they have an agreement. Accompanied by a U.S. Military telegraph envelope addressed to Tobias Gibson with a docket date of October...

GLC04501.035

to her brother Tobias Gibson

A somber letter in which Martha describes her family's recent destitution. Their entire estate, houses, slaves, crops, etc., have been confiscated by the bank and Dr. Nebett. The property will be auctioned off the first of April.

GLC04501.052

[to Tobias Gibson]

The date is inferred from the election years in which the politicians mentioned ran for office. Discusses various political figures such as William Seward, Francis P. Blair (former Free Soiler), Lewis Kossuth, James Buchanan, Daniel Webster and...

GLC04501.063

to Randall Lee Gibson

Writes about plantation business. He hopes Randall and Preston will write to him from New Orleans.

GLC04501.074

Information regarding slavers, received from the master of the "Jupiter" captured by Her M S "Antelope"

Clerical copy of a deposition taken by Lt. John W. Pike, captain of the HMS "Antelope," from the master of the "Jupiter," an illegal slaver captured by the "Antelope" in June of 1857. The statement describes the operation of an illegal slave ship...

GLC05832.05

to David P. Harmon

Informs Harmon that William W. Brown will be attending a meeting in Haverhill. Asks that Harmon publicize Mr. Brown's appearance and find a suitable place for him to give his lecture.

GLC06143.08

[to David P. Harmon]

Asks Harmon to assist him in coordinating a meeting for Mr. Watson and himself. Stearns writes that he has sent a notice to J.G. Whittier (the poet) but does not know if he will give a lecture as he is not a disunionist.

GLC06143.16

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

to Miss Lena

Thanks Lena, a young girl, for a potholder (GLC07731.02). Apparently Lena had read Douglass's narrative, and he thanks her for reading and thinking kindly of his life and history. Writes "Please accept my best thanks for 'Any holder but a...

GLC07731.01