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to Elisha Babcock

Approves of the "Address of the Delegates from ninety seven Towns," which he calls a good beginning. Indicates that he is sending a pamphlet (not included) and describes it as the opposite of "poor John's [Adams] defence of the American...

GLC06330

to Thomas Jefferson re: requesting assistance [in French]

GLC06749.02

Notification. The Freeholders... [calling town meeting on Embargo Act]

A notice calling a Boston town meeting to prepare a petition for ending the Embargo Act towards Spain and Portugal.

GLC06991.01

Circular: Petition to the President, with printed letter to Petersham selectmen

Resolutions passed at a Boston town meeting to create a petition to end the Embargo, signed by 7 selectmen of Boston, including Charles Bullfinch, William Porter and Ebenezer Oliver. With an attached (conjugate) printed letter, to the Selectmen of...

GLC06991.02

An address to the Republican friends of the National Administration...

Continues: "In the county of Berkshire..." Contains pro-embargo, pro-Jefferson sentiments.

GLC06991.03

Whereas the town of Boston [Pro-embargo protest with blanks for town names]

Resolutions.

GLC06991.04

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 855 (May 2, 1745)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Mentions petition presented to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania regarding the creation of a new county. Includes a speech...

GLC06670.057

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 856 (May 9, 1745)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Announcement of the founding of the County of Bucks, as a result of the pettition mentioned in issues number 855. Printed...

GLC06670.058

to William Smallwood

Communicates to General Smallwood a resolution by the Continental Congress in response to a petition from citizens in Somerset and Worcester counties in Maryland. The resolution orders Smallwood to help "suppress the Tories in the counties of...

GLC06502

[Petition to New York Governor Edwin D. Morgan seeking military policy changes]

Signed by several New York officers and endorsed by prominent Union generals Joseph Bartlett, John Newton, Winfield S. Hancock, and Henry W. Slocum, among others. Seeks to institute policy changes in order to fill the ranks for New York regiments....

GLC06587

Petition to change the ward lines to include [parts of the first ward] Young and 8th Streets in the Second Ward.

Includes 81 signatures.

GLC05756.067

to the Presidency of Weber Stake of Zion

Petition from members of the third Ward complaining that the meeting house is "very inconvenient." Includes 41 signatures.

GLC05756.068

To the Presidency and High Council of the Weber Stake of Zion

Petition against allowing part of the first ward to join the second ward. Includes 132 signatures.

GLC05756.069

To the President and Members of the High Council

Petition to make Kangon Road the boundary between the 3rd and Mound Fort [?] Wards. Includes 20 signatures.

GLC05756.074

to the High Counsel of the Weber Stake of Zion

Petition to restore Peter Later to a standing in the Church. Signed by 5 additional persons

GLC05756.139

[Petition of a free black to become a slave of W.C. Lewis]

Ann Jackson's petition to become the property of W. C. Lewis, signed by her with an "X". The document was based on an Act of the Texas Legislature "Free persons of African descent [may] select their own master and become slaves...." With stamp of...

GLC06375

[Petition of Joane Wooledge].

Also signed by Francis Williamson and one other person. Joane Wooledge petitions to be given her cousin, Robert Hoskins's estate, since he has no will or heir. Further, she asks that Captain Henry Greenland and James Boller be appointed her...

GLC02468.09

[Massachusetts-Bay order to pay William Angier]

Partially printed order to pay 1500 pounds for Angier's "Sufferings in the year 1759 - as mentd in his Petn." Authorized by order of the governor, Sir Francis Bernard. Cotton was then deputy secretary and would become secretary to the Stamp Act...

GLC02503.06

[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 Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury

Signed by J. Rodman, Thomas Stevenson, John Way and William Bickley. Written by a group of New York Quakers "to the Governor." Contains a petition on the deprivation of voting rights for the members of the House of Representatives in Queens County...

GLC02509.01

to William North

Whimsical letter written by Von Steuben in retirement and in debt in New York to his former aide North, who was also in retirement at Duanesburg, New York. Refers to North as "my dear Bill." Looks back on the last year. Mentions that "you did cut...

GLC02542.12

to the Honorable Senate of the United States of America

Co-signed by Ulysses S. Grant and fifteen other brevet second lieutenants protesting L.R. Quimby's promotion on the grounds of their seniority.

GLC02643

[Petition to amend an 1861 New York state legislative act pertaining to the Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians]

Includes a cover letter by Parker, writing as chief and delegate of the Tonawanda band of Seneca Indians, that claims that the 1861 legislation entitled "An Act for the protection and improvement of the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians, residing...

GLC02707

[Petition]

Petition to Governor Jonathan Belcher regarding conflicts with the Indians in Massachusetts. Includes a list of names of people supporting the petition.

GLC02437.08881

[Petition]

Petition regarding the settling of the eastern lands and relations with the Indians. Include two notes, the first dated 13 May 1738 which includes a list an additional list of names to the original group of petitioners and the second dated Falmouth...

GLC02437.08884