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[Broadside against the Sacco-Vanzetti execution]

This document is a printed broadside that quotes a columnist from the New York World and reads, "What more can these immigrants from Italy expect? it is not every prisoner who has a President of Harvard University throw on the switch for him." Sacco...

GLC05712.02

The official bulletin of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee [Vol. I, no. 15 (September 1927)]

Newspaper or newsletter issued after the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The first page has a printed statement denouncing the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti and comparing the case to the Salem witchcraft trials. The rest of the...

GLC05712.03

to Clara M. Miller

re: The pictures are fine that she sent. Describes the beauty of Alaskan Mother Nature. "To night is a beautiful moon brightnight and all is still…" He mentions about inditing Mr. Wright and testifying before the grand jury.

GLC05755.052

Report of the Holden slave case, tried at the January term of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Worcester, A.D. 1839.

Printed by Colton and Howland for the Board of Directors of the Holden Anti-Slavery Society. Discusses "the case of Commonwealth vs. Samuel Stratton, Samuel Foster, James E. Cheney, and Farnum White, Jun., who were charged in the indictment with a...

GLC06356

Collection of two items related to the Massachusetts legislature [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC06417

to C. H. Betts

Responds to criticism from Betts over an article Roosevelt wrote in The Outlook denouncing the New York Court of Appeals for their decision to rule the workmen's compensation act unconstitutional. States that their conduct was, " ... a most flagrant...

GLC06422

to Edward Bates

Written by Rear Admiral DuPont to U.S. Attorney General Bates. Says he perceives by a return made by the Navy Department to the House of Representatives on prizes that many cases have been appealed to the Supreme Court. Says many officers and himself...

GLC02466.03

to Abraham Lincoln

Blair, Governor of Michigan, recommends William Hemingway from Michigan for the position of judge in the Montana Territory. Notes that Hemingway is a member of the Michigan State Legislature. Written on State of Michigan stationery.

GLC02467.05

to Jacob Thompson

Harris, Governor of Tennessee, writes to Thompson, United States Secretary of the Interior. Recommends George Western Thompson, of Wheeling, (present-day West Virginia), for the position of Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. Notes...

GLC02469.07

to John Lawrence

Orders Lawrence to pay Peter Webb six pounds and charge the same to the salary of the judges of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Dyer had been a member of the Stamp Act Congress. Lawrence served as treasurer of Connecticut from 1769 to 1789.

GLC02503.08

[Writ for seizure of goods]

An order to seize the property of Joseph Budd of Newark, New Jersey, pursuant to a judgment against him in favor of Charles Gilliam and Joseph Headley. Authorized by Judge Ogden, who had served in the Stamp Act Congress the previous year. A note on...

GLC02503.15

to George F. Edmunds

Discusses scheduling court cases. Written on stationery of the 5th Avenue Hotel.

GLC02504.19

to William H. Blenko

Thanks Blenko for a vase he gave him at the Governors' Conference in White Sulphur Springs. Signed as Governor of California. Addressed to Blenko at the Blenko Glass Company in Milton, West Virginia. A typed note with biographical information on...

GLC02504.39

to John Nicholson

Written by Bradford as Pennsylvania's Attorney General to Nicholson as Comptroller General. Says the case "Com v. Matlock" -- probably Comptroller v. Matlock -- will commence today. Wants Nicholson to meet him at Mr. Wilson's -- perhaps the well...

GLC02505.04

to Rufus King

Written by Ellsworth as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to King as American Minister to England. Ellsworth was selected by Adams as one of three peace commissioners that was sent to France in 1799. The team of diplomats successfully negotiated the...

GLC02505.17

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

to George Simpson

Written by Paterson, a signer of the U.S. Constitution, as a Supreme Court Justice to Simpson as cashier of the Bank of the United States. Asks that Andrew Bayard be allowed to receive 875 dollars for him, which is a quarter of his salary as an...

GLC02505.35

to Theodore Sedgwick, Jr.

Informs Sedgwick that Chief Justice John Marshall resides in Richmond, Virginia and mail for him should be sent there. Remarks that Sedgwick is highly esteemed at Cambridge Law School. Addressed to Sedgwick in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

GLC02505.39

[Appointment of John North as Justice of the Peace in York County, Massachusetts]

Handwritten document signed by Belcher as the Governor of Massachusetts. Also signed by J. Willard Story. With contemporary genealogical notes in the margins.

GLC02542.05

[Appointment of John North as a Justice of the Peace in Lincoln County, Massachusetts]

Partially printed document signed by Bernard as Massachusetts governor and Andrew Oliver as secretary. A manuscript note on the verso, dated 13 November 1760 and signed by Jacob Wendell and James Bowdoin as members of the governor's council, affirms...

GLC02542.31

[Print of Peter V. Daniel]

Print of Peter V. Daniel, Supreme Court Judge.

GLC02546.02

[Affidavit of innocence]

Affidavit prepared for Tennessee Governor John Sevier as defendant in a case against Jenkin Whiteside. Co-signed by James Sevier as clerk that the contents of the affidavit were "sworn in Open Court." The case Jenkin Whiteside v. John Sevier revolved...

GLC02606

to judge

Probably written by Moses Wright, considering Miller's death three weeks previous. At the top of the stationary, which reads "Rome Judicial Circuit," appears Moses' name above the printed title of "Solicitor General." Probably addressed to Judge W...

GLC02691.11.101

[Deed to Richard Clarke]

Marked "copy." Notes that the Superior Court of Massachusetts granted the authors, as surviving executors of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo's estate, the power to sell lands of Waldo's to pay his debts. The present deed documents the sale of a land...

GLC02437.09080

[Petition related to the estate of Thomas Flucker]

Petition by Henry Knox to the General Court of Massachusetts regarding the estate of Thomas Flucker. Asks for authorization to request that bonds be paid, and other administrative tasks associated with executing the estate.

GLC02437.09102