1 March 1900

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Book signed

Title: The Future of the American Negro

Published by Small, Maynard & Company in 1899. Inscribed in 1900 on the inner front cover to Almira Thornton Goff, wife of Lyman B. Goff, an active Republican and head of the Union Wadding Company of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Includes a photograph of Washington opposite the title page. Contents explore African-American history, history of the Tuskegee Institute (of which Washington was President), and the difficulty of racial integration, among other topics. Provides his theories on the importance of African-American education: believes that "thorough academic and religious training […

GLC04297.01

25 October 1915

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Printed document

Title: Needs and progress of the Negro

Printed leaflet of an address delivered by Washington at the annual meeting of the American Missionary Association. First page contains the New York address of the Missionary Association and a photograph of Washington. Text indicates that this is only part of Washington's presentation. Contents discuss race relations in America. Outlines the vast growth in academic opportunities for African-Americans since the Civil War, but stresses that much work still has to be done in funding schools for blacks: "There is sometimes much talk of the inferiority of the Negro. In practice, however, the…

GLC04297.02

February 14, 1865

Renton, Benjamin, fl. 1865

Printed document signed

Title: [Notice of transportation furnished for Sergeant Judson Matthews, Company G, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Annapolis, Maryland, for Sergeant Mathews. States that Mathews is on a leave of absence granted by General Charles Adam Heckman. This document is partially printed on Assistant Quartermaster's Office (Railroad Transportation) stationery.

GLC06133.05

February 14, 1865

Renton, Benjamin, fl. 1865

Printed document signed

Title: [Notice of transportation furnished for Corporal Frank Sewell, Company K, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Renton, Assistant Quartermaster, informs the United States Army Paymaster General that he has provided transportation to Annapolis, Maryland, for Corporal Sewell. States that Sewell is on a leave of absence granted by General Charles Adam Heckman. This document is partially printed on Assistant Quartermaster's Office (Railroad Transportation) stationery. Docketed in pencil.

GLC06133.06

20 May 1867

Broadside

Title: Second Grand Premiums by the Washington Library Co in aid of the Riverside Insitution!

Civil War broadside advertising a raffle and engraving sale organized for the Riverside Institute, which provided "a home for soldiers' and sailors orphans." The prizes, whose values are listed only, "consist of Works of Art, Painting, Statuary, &c." Orders to be made to George A. Cooke.

GLC08442.03

20 September 1892

Keystone Publishing Company, fl. 1892

Print

Title: Parade of the Grand Army of the Republic

Color drawing of a parade along the national mall in Washington, D.C., with the capitol building visible in the distance. "Sparks from the Camp Fire" is written at the bottom right. The date is that of the parade.

GLC08442.09

1864

Print

Title: Soldier's Dream of Peace

Civil War print of a soldier sleeping with a image of his dream above him. A poem is written below the print describing the dream. Labeled as a "presentation plate to the patrons of the Philadelphia Enquirer, 1865."

GLC08442.12

12 November 1760

Leishman, Andrew, fl. 1760

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for payment for wages]

Receipt to the Committee of War in Rhode Island for payment of Peter Bateman's wages as a soldier in Major Burkett's Company. Directs that the 16 shilling New York currency payment to be made to Cornelius Culnon and to "Deduct the same out of the Wages first due to me." Signed by Bateman, but document appears to have been written by Andrew Leishman.

GLC01450.190.07

6 May 1776

Badlam, Ezra, fl. 1776

Autograph document signed

Title: [Order of confinement]

Captain Badlam writes to the Officer of the Quarter Guard to confine Parker Noyes for going to New York and staying there several days and nights without leave. Was written near Hells Gate.

GLC01450.190.08

24 October 1760

Priest, Darius, fl. 1760

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for payment of wages]

Receipt to Committee of War in Rhode Island requests payment of Darius Priest's wages of three pounds New York currency to be delievered to Cornelius Culnon. Also says to 'deduct the same out of the Wages first due to me as a Soldier." Priest was a member of Major Burkett's Company. Signed by Priest and countersigned by Tibbits Hopkins.

GLC01450.190.09

April 1778

Titcomb, Oliver, fl. 1776-1778

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for mileage]

Receipt written by Captain Titcomb for moving his company of 53 men. The company was in Colonel Jacob Garrish's regiment. Titcomb's men were stationed at Winter Hill, which is outside Boston, to guard the Convention Army, which consisted of captured British soldiers from the Saratoga Campaign. His men are being paid mileage. 27 of his men marched from Winter Hill to Amesbury, which is 50 miles, and received over 16 pounds. 26 of his men marched from Rowley to Amesbury, a distance of 35 miles, and received over 11 pounds. Titcomb has spelled Amesbury as "Almesbury." Due to text loss, it is…

GLC01450.228.01

9 June 1778

Chapman, Jedidiah, fl. 1778

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recpeit for wages]

Signed by Chapman and six other members of the company of Captain Oliver Titcomb. They were in Colonel Jacob Garrish's regiment. Receipts asks Titcomb for payment of their wages of over 28 pounds. Signed note by Chapman on verso states he received the wages. Dated 9 June 1778 in Amesbury, which is spelled "Almesbury" by Chapman.

GLC01450.228.02

January 14, 1779

Poor, Amos, fl. 1779

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recpeit for wages]

Lieutenant Poor's receipt for the Continental and State wages paid to him and five other men in Captain Oliver Titcomb's company. Receipt says they were in Colonel Cogswell's regiment. The receipt totals 407 dollars.

GLC01450.228.03

February 11, 1777

Peters, Richard, 1743-1828

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for regimental pay]

Written by Peters as the Secretary for the Board of War. Receipt says to pay Thomas Hughes, regimental paymaster of the 7th Virginia Battalion, two months wages for the soldiers under his jurisdiction. Says he is to be accountable to the Pay Master General on joining the army, so Hughes might have just recently entered the army.

GLC01450.239.01

May 26, 1779

Brownard, Benjamin, fl. 1779

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Clement Biddle

Letter written by Brownard from the Quartermaster General's office to Colonel Biddle as Deputy Quartermaster General of Pennsylvania. Says "The General" requests Biddle to provide pasture for the expresses - probably horses for the express riders - where they can be in one place as near to his office as possible.

GLC01450.239.02

20 September 1757

Johnson, James, fl. 1757

Document signed

Title: to Theadore Atkinson

Receipt says ten days after sight of this note to exchange money to pay Joseph Morse & Co. 24 dollars for value received. Atkinson was in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

GLC01450.243.01

December 25, 1763

Cottrell, Thomas, fl. 1763

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for Samuel Kennedy]

Signed by Lieutenant Cottrell and co-signed as a witness by Kennedy Farrell. Receipt says to pay Samuel Kennedy over 21 pounds Rhode Island currency.

GLC01450.243.02

17 October 1776

Mathewson, Jonathan, fl. 1776

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for small arms payment]

Received 390 pounds for 100 hundred small arms from Joseph Clark, Treasurer of Rhode Island. The small arms are to be marked with the colony's stamp.

GLC01450.243.03

24 September 1778

The Town of Newburyport

Document signed

Title: [Account ledger for payments to Samuel Tufts]

Ledger of payments from the town of Newburyport to Samuel Tufts. The payments began on 10 February 1778 and ended on 24 September 1778 and was for a total of over 182 pounds. The town mostly purchased clothing from Tufts. He signed the document, apparently stating he received the funds.

GLC01450.243.04

16 November 1781

Maxwell, Adam, fl. 1781

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt of Abraham Greene]

Receipt written in Council of War. Authorizes Abraham Greene to draw one pounds, 10 shillings in silver money from the general treasury. Note on verso, signed by Greene, says he received the money on 27 November 1781.

GLC01450.243.05

December 1, 1781

Maxwell, Adam, fl. 1781

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for Archibald Crary]

Written in a Council of War. Receipt allows Colonel Archibald Crary to draw 90 pounds, in either silver or gold, from the general treasury. Note on verso, signed by Crary, says he received payment on 6 December 1781.

GLC01450.243.06

March 12, 1779

Clarkson, Matthew, 1758-1825

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Blatchley Webb

Letter written by Clarkson as aide-de-camp to General Benjamin Lincoln to Colonel Webb. Encloses a letter for his father (not included) and hopes Webb will deliver it. Hopes he can procure papers for "the Girls to pay us a Visit." Apologizes for the short letter, but business and the impatience of Webb's brother, who is going to deliver the letter, forced him to write quickly. Postscript says to remember him to the family and Giles. Red wax seal partially extent.

GLC01450.458.01

circa 1775-1783

Clarkson, Matthew, 1758-1825

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Bradford

Note from Clarkson as aide-de-camp of General Benjamin Lincoln to Bradford as Commissary of Prisoners that says General Lincoln wants to see Bradford immediately. Letter dated August 2, but year cannot be inferred.

GLC01450.458.02

1 March 1782

Massachusetts House of Representatives

Broadside

Title: [Printed resolution of recruitment schedule]

Broadside says that the 4,240 troops apportioned on Massachusetts was not a sufficient quota to fill out the Massachusetts Line by nearly 1,000 men. Because of casualties and this shortage, the state needs to raise another 1,500 men for three years or the duration of the war. The schedule is broken down by county and further into the quota for each town. Totals provided for each county. Essex County is asked to provide the most with 232 recruits and Dukes County the least with 10 recruits. Resolves at the end of the document provides the details for the enlistments. The year "1780" is…

GLC01450.602.01

22 June 1781

Massachusetts House of Representatives

Printed document

Title: [Printed resolution on collection of clothing and blankets] [incomplete]

Asks that the selectmen of each town to collect from town inhabitants, or otherwise procure, the items listed in the resolution by 20 September 1781. The resolution calls for 8,000 shirts, 8,000 pairs of stockings, 8,000 pairs of shoes, and 4,000 blankets. Articles need to be shipped by 1 October 1781. Lists officials in various counties to spearhead the collection. Provides information on where counties should ship their items. If the items are not delivered, the counties will be fined and assessed the value of the items not shipped and billed for them. Breaks down number of items to be…

GLC01450.602.02