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Written in Washington Square, New York. Discusses his trunk, which has been detained. Hopes to be refunded for the expenses incurred by being unable to use the contents of the trunk. Includes an order for spikes (nails) to be sent to New Orleans....

GLC05339.09

to C. C. Morgan

Written on stationery of Pawnee Bill's Oklahoma Colonization Company. Informs Morgan of his plans to establish a settlement (possibly the colony which was later known as "Pawnee Bill's Old Town and Trading Post" in Oklahoma). Advises Morgan that a...

GLC05476

[American Colonization Society circular proposing steamship line between the United States and Africa]

Addressed to "His Excellency the Gov of NJ" (Daniel Haines). Signed by [Matthew St. Clair Clarke]. Copy of the memorial of Joseph Bryan, of Alabama, to Congress, proposing to establish a line of steam ships between the U.S. and Africa. Cites the...

GLC05492

to Andrew Johnson

Letter draft written in prison by the former commander the CSS "Alabama" to the President defending himself against all charges. Discusses the surrender agreement at Greensboro, the definition of treason, the United States Constitution, and his...

GLC05590

to William Evarts

Recounts a private conversation with the Secretary of State William H. Seward. Discusses presidential politics. Reports that Salmon P. Chase has withdrawn from the election. Remarks, "Mr. Lincoln has the people; there is no doubt of this; but he...

GLC05603.01.02

to Collector of Customs, Alexandria, Virginia

Orders that the Commanding Officer of the Brig Perry require all vessels to produce a certified list of their crew from the Custom house at Georgetown or Alexandria. This is to prevent parties from avoiding the pass system on the Potomac by claiming...

GLC05603.01.21

to Richard Rush

Recommends George Bass for a position in the Boston Port of Customs as a Boarding Officer. Addressed to Rush as the Secretary of the Treasury.

GLC05603.01.27

Opinion of Attorney General Bates on citizenship.

With original wrapper. First edition printed by the Government Printing Office. Inscribed on front cover to R. R. Hazard from Bates in 1863. This pamphlet is a printing of a letter from Bates to Salmon Portland Chase, Secretary of the Treasury...

GLC05775

to Rufus King

Written by Marshall as Secretary of State to King as American Minister to Britain. Includes extract of a letter from Fitzsimmons to Secretary of Navy Benjamin Stoddert, to give King an idea of recent conduct of British Admiralty Courts in America...

GLC05789

Journal of a cruise in the U.S.S. Portsmouth on the East India station, A. H. Foote Esqre commander, book II.

Calf cover.

Excerpts:
[11 April 1857] "Got underway at 8 A.M. Dipped colors to Commodore - Cleared down royals to English Admiral, he dipped his colors, we lowered ours. Got to sea by 'Lentoo Channel'

[4 May 1857] "…Heard of the case of the...

GLC05911.02.02

New Orleans daily crescent. [Vol. 13, no. 260 (January 3, 1861)]

Published at 70 Camp Street. In response to an article in the "Chicago Tribune," front page has an article mockingly titled "New Orleans Ruined!-Cotton Doomed!" that says the city's markets will survive if New Yorkers eliminate tolls on Erie Canal...

GLC05960.02.02

[Presidential pardon of Charles Anderson, who was covicted of selling liquor to Indians]

Anderson was pardoned by McKinley. Countersigned by James E. Bayard, acting Attorney General. includes seal.

GLC06105

[Validating invoice from Charles Tuling for importing merchandise]

Partially printed document signed by Chase as Secretary of the Treasury. Application to allow admittance of the merchandise being imported by Tuling from Matanzas, Cuba on the bark St. Mary's. Also signed by Hiram Barney, as Collector of Customs in...

GLC06452.03

to John Langdon

Written by Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, as a New Hampshire Congressman to Langdon as agent for Continental prizes in New Hampshire. First two pages are a letter from 4 December 1776 and is signed "W Whipple" and the third...

GLC06519

The American Museum: or repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, & c. prose and poetical. Volume IV.

Printed by Carey. Carey dedicates this volume to General George Washington. Includes a printing of Washington's farewell orders to the armies of the United States, issued 2 November 1783 from Rocky Hill, near Princeton, New Jersey (pages 240-242)....

GLC06565

to Alexander J. Dallas

Seeks clarification on negotiations with Spain concerning duties and the tonnage act.

GLC06576

Diary of Sarah Lydia Gilpin 1863

Pages numbered 1-190.
This volume introduces themes that recur throughout the diaries. The author corresponds with Henry A. Dupont (entry of January 24) and takes a lively interest in both finance and the important happenings of the day, as in the...

GLC06846.02

to Thomas Mifflin

Presidential circular letter in which Washington transmits to Mifflin "the duplicates of the two Acts - one to establish the Treasury Department - and one for registering and clearing Vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes."

GLC07116

[Importation certificate for the port of Marblehead, Massachusetts]

Partially printed document signed as collector and countersigned by J. Prentiss as Collector. Numbered 14976. Certifies that Thomas Meek imported one cask of wine.

GLC00307.04

to M. M. Hays

Glover, noted leader of the 14th Continental Regiment during the Revolutionary War, discusses a shipment of oil with Hays, a lawyer. He mentions Mr. Stilman, Mr. Secur, and the price of oil.

GLC00307.05

[Reciepts related to bonds]

Account entry 816, possibly clipped from a larger account book. Commodore Dale discusses the balance of his bond by the brig Pomona. Mentions a purchase of sugar 22 November 1793 aboard the ship Columbia. Verso contains partial receipt 820 for...

GLC00308.07

to M. Dumas

Written as American ambassador to France to Dutchman Charles William Frederic Dumas at the Hague, who had wanted to negotiate a commercial treaty for America. Dumas had been refused. Jefferson points out past history and present problems, including...

GLC00322

[An Act for permitting Tea to be exported to Ireland, and His Majesty's Plantations in America, without paying the Inland Duties...]

Records this tea law passed by Parliament on 10 November 1747 in its entirety. Baskett was the printer.

GLC00400

An act to encourage the importation of pig and bar iron...

GLC00401

An act to discontinue... shipping... within the Harbour, of Boston [Port Bill]

The Boston Port Act. Paginated 515-522 + unpaginated title page.
[one of the five "Intolerable Acts"]

GLC00402

Marche pour la forniture des ancres, fers, cloux et outils necessaires au service du Roi dans les colonies de l'Amerique [in French]

A nine year contract for providing goods to the American colonies. Lists the prices of over three hundred items, including implements for various artisans and farmers. Also contains two articles relating to labor. Signed well before any formal...

GLC00404

to Joseph Clay

Business letter that mentions procuring rice, the loss of a crop from "pink root," a lawsuit, and getting some Tenerife wine. This is an uncommon autograph.

GLC00489

Gen'l Stuart's return from Pennsylvania

Depicts a line of cavalrymen stopping to allow their horses to rest. The officer at the left of the picture blows a bugle as his horse drinks from a stream. The other horses, some of which have their tongues sticking out, appear tired and thirsty. As...

GLC00493.22

to Committee of Correspondence of the County of Berks

Also signed by Joseph Reed, John Cadwalader, Thomas Mifflin, Jonathan B. Smith, John Benezet, James Mease, John Nixon, and Samuel Meredith. Circular to the committees of Pennsylvania encouraging the formation of military associations in each county...

GLC00496.022

to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

Requesting permission to ship twenty-five barrels of flour. Written to Jenifer while president of the Maryland Council of Safety. Andre was most likely a French merchant.

GLC00496.269

to George Clinton

Greene, the Governor of Rhode Island, writes to Clinton, Governor of New York, to request that an embargo be lifted so that grain can be transported from New York to Rhode Island. Discusses the grain shortage because of British occupation of parts of...

GLC00585

to William Lee

Written to William Lee, who was serving as American consul at Bordeaux, France. Mentions that he arrived in Paris on June 20, 1805 after a 25 day trip and that he will soon proceed to London. He mentions the unsuccessful mission to Spain. In the...

GLC00655.02

The Secretary of Treasury respectfully reports.... [state debts report]

An appendix to Hamilton's Public Credit report on state debts. Proposes raising customs duties. Evans 23003, Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana 165

GLC01041

Lettres Patentes en Forme d'Edit (in French)

Rest of title: ", portant establissement d'une compagnie... " Printed decree granting Louisiana to the Compagnie d'occident. From this decree stemmed the foundation of New Orleans and French exploitation of Louisiana. Wroth, Acts of French Royal...

GLC01068

to Henry T. Clark

Polk writes to North Carolina Governor Clark about the recent act passed by the Confederate Congress authorizing the exportation of cotton across enemy lines in exchange for supplies.

GLC01078

[Collection of two James Madison letters]

GLC01096

to unknown

Letter probably sent to John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State by President Monroe. Letter believed to be a precursor to the Monroe Doctrine. Said he had to withdraw the nomination of John B. Prevost, Aaron Burr's nephew, as Charge d'Affaires to...

GLC01137

Legal documents relating to captured American privateers [Decimalized .01-.10]

Collection of legal documents dated 1776 to 1779. Consists of 10 documents relating to captured American vessels which contained enslaved people and cargo,

GLC01411

[Legal document of privateer from Court of Vice Admiralty of East Florida claiming enslaved people]

One document countersigned by Judge Robert Catherwood of the Court of Vice Admiralty of East Florida dated February 7, 1778. Signed with an "X" as the mark of Lieutenant Dominica Martinico. Document states that Martinico, the commander of the...

GLC01411.01

[Judicial order for the officers of "Beaufort" to be examined under oath]

Order signed by Judge Catherwood and sent to John Halsey, the Marshal of the Court of Admiralty of East Florida. After reading the petition of William Panton and another claimant and hearing from several witnesses, Catherwood tells Halsey to order...

GLC01411.05

[Judicial order concerning the ships "Polly and "White Queen"]

Judicial order of the Vice Admiralty Court of East Florida signed by Judge Catherwood. It was ordered that the cargo belonging to the vessel "Polly" be landed and an inventory be taken. Also orders that the "Polly" be used for "the purposes of...

GLC01411.06

[Oath sworn before the Vice Admiralty Court of East Florida]

Countersigned by Judge Robert Catherwood. Legal document affirming the statement made under oath by Richard Wallace, Master of the ship "Ichard"(?). Wallace was claiming that all the papers from the captured brig "Hope" are in the possession of the...

GLC01411.07

The Sloop Lucky Chance her Tackle and One Negro

One legal document in the Court of Vice Admiralty of East Florida given to Judge Robert Catherwood dated approximately 1779. Claims that the sloop "Lucky Chance" contained tackle and one enslaved person identified as "one Negro." The ship previously...

GLC01411.10

[Clerical document]

Documents the impressment of the Captain Edward Southwick's Sloop Warren by Captain James Wallace of the Rose, a man of war. Includes a list of unreturned materials, exceeding 50 pounds in value.

GLC01412.20

[Marriage certificate for officer and wife]

Partially printed marriage certificate signed by Wentworth as "Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief" over the Colony of New Hampshire. For the marriage of Colonel Jonathan Titcomb and Sarah Stedman. Numbered 335. The docket says they were...

GLC01412.33

[Custom's document]

Partially printed document signed by Colonel Goldthwait, who was the commanding officer at Fort Pownall in Maine, and countersigned by his future son-in-law, Francis Archbald, Jr., the clerk at Fort Pownall. Certifies Nathan Pendleton of the...

GLC01412.63.05

[Collection of letters related to wine trade in Portugal] [Decimalized .01-.08]

GLC01450.022

[Collection of items related to Jonathan Clarke] [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC01450.032

[Shipping order from Benjamin Faneuil]

Orders Jonathan Clark to ship molasses, turpentine, and tallow to Halifax on the account of Butler and Fritten. Envelope is addressed to Jonathan Clarke. Faneuil was a merchant. Document is not dated.

GLC01450.032.01

[Agreement to ship goods aboard the Marquiss]

Lists goods he has received as the commander of the privateer ship the Marquiss to ship on behalf of Samuel Croce. States he will sell the contents in France and return to Croce the profits after giving one fourth to the freight commissioners. The...

GLC01450.061