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to unknown [in French]

Letter possibly written to Armand Duplantier on May 1, 1805. No date indicated on document. Lafayette discusses lands he was granted in the Louisiana territory and the building of a brick factory. In reference to the factory, he mentions thirty...

GLC05315

[Official Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations patent to freedman Morris Clark]

Serves as an official document issued 3 December 1904 providing for the allotment of land to freedmen within the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. This particular document allots 40 acres of land to Morris Clark. Partially printed; information...

GLC05340

[Hand-drawn map and written description of land grant in Feliciana District of Louisiana along the Mississippi River] [in Spanish]

Countersigned by Carlos Trudeau. Hand-drawn map, marked No. 893, on top half of recto. Delineates land boundaries that the written part of the document seems to describe. Red wax stamp on page three. Note near docket says "Recorded in the Office...

GLC06262

[Land grant to Thomas Mitchell of 2,436 acres in New Kent County, Virginia]

Granted by Thomas Lord Culpeper, Baron of Thoresway. Signed as Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia. Gives detailed descriptions of the boundaries of the property based on geographic and territorial landmarks. Also signed by Clerk of the Council...

GLC02468.10

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

Cavalry tactics. Third part. Evolutions of a regiment.

McClellan's personal copy of an army cavalry tactics manual, signed by McClellan on the titlepage as "Capt. 1st Cavalry." Pencilled note on rear pastedown by Millis Knickerbocker, a member of McClellan's Dragoons, states that he found the book near...

GLC02645

"Distribution of Public Lands"

Speech given by Rep. Augustus Wright in the House of Representatives on the 'distribution of the public lands.' According to the speech, the government held about a billion acres of land at the time. Wright believed that the best candidates for the...

GLC02691.11.004

Drafft of this Countrey

One map depicting the path from Albany through Iroquois territory towards Lake Ontariot, onto St. Lawrence River to Montreal. On the left side is a key of geographical names. It is likely that the red crayon was drawn by the delegates and ink filled...

GLC03107.02046

Receipt of wheat for rent due Henry Livingston (1753-1823)

GLC03107.03948

Land Grant

GLC02924.073

to Brother

One letter addressed to "Brother" dated Allens Grove, January 31, 1858 from A.A. Scott. Mentions the health of the family; provides details from a letter related to Joel's trade post, his farm life, and composting; gives updates on his trade post in...

GLC09832.33

[Land agreement belonging to Gabriel Ralston and Frederick Jordan]

One legal document dated November 6, 1784. Related to a land grant from Thomas Allibone to Gabriel Ralston and Fredrick Jordan. Details the stipulations for paying $1,900 to Thomas Allibone and the extension of land boundaries.

GLC09836.05

[Land Deed]

One manuscript document dated January 23, 1823. A land deed for one hundred and fifty acres of land purchased by James Harris.

GLC03135.13.001

[Gift of Land]

One land transaction document which details a gift of land and house to Sadie D. Jones from E.P.C. Haywood and Belle Haywood, Sadie's parents. The document details the gift's location and estimated value.

GLC03135.13.080

[Gift of land]

One land transaction document which details a gift of land to Kenneth Jones from Alfred and Maxine Jones, Kenneth's parents. The document details the gift's location and estimated value.

GLC03135.13.084

[Gift of land]

One land transaction document which details a gift of land to Sadie D. Jones from Alfred and Maxine Jones, Sadie's in-laws. The document details the gift's location and estimated value.

GLC03135.13.085

to Phillippa W. Carothers re: denying request for military land grant

Denying request for military land grant because services of her father were not "of such a nature as to entitle his heirs to the bounty of the government"

GLC05351

to Marquis de Lafayette

Madison regrets informing Lafayette that he cannot give him an answer on the loan he requested. He remarks "There is no country where money exists at all that is so unproductive of lenders as this is." States that he hopes Lafayette will have more...

GLC05810

An act donating public lands to the several state & territories, which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture & the mechanic arts

A copy of the Morril Land Grant act, granting public lands to individual states for the building of agricultural colleges, written by Robert E. Lee. The act, passed in 1862, offered states 30,000 acres of public land per Congressman from that state...

GLC05926

[Arkansas land grant]

Signed by Monroe as President and countersigned by Josiah Meigs as Commissioner of the General Land Office. Also signed by "J. Wheaton," apparently a clerk in the land office who recorded the grant and by a "Will. Blanchard" on verso at the docket...

GLC06418.03

[Indiana land grant to Samuel Cook]

Countersigned by George W. Graham, Commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed document granting Cook eighty acres in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

GLC06418.04

[Pennsylvania land grant to William Lane]

Partially printed land patent counter-signed by JamesTrimble as Deputy Secretary and witnessed by Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Mifflin. Lane obtained the land, called "Oatland" in Bald Eagle township, from Isaiah Davis. The document describes the...

GLC01244

[Land grant to Isaac Wharton, David Lewis and others]

Partially printed document grants a parcel of land called "Stephen's Green," in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania to Wilhem Willink, Nicholaas Van Staphorft, Hendrick Vollenhove, Rutger Jan Schimmelpennicnck, Chriftiaan Van Eeghen, and Pieter Stadnifki....

GLC01245

[Ohio land grant to Robert Parks of Harrison County, Ohio]

Partially printed document granting Robert Parks seventy nine acres in Steubenville, Ohio. Signed by John Quincy Adams as President and countersigned by George W. Graham as Commissioner of the General Land Office. Certificate No. 1251. Recorded in...

GLC04900.03

Report of the committee, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Boone together with the resolutions of the legislature of the state of Kentucky, relative to said petition.

Printed by Roger C. Weightman. Boone sought a grant of land in the Missouri territory. The committee cites Boone's service to the United States, his willingness to face peril, his contribution to western settlement, and his current state of poverty...

GLC05206