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1808

Manuscript document

Title: [Muster roll of Capt. Joseph E. Foxcraft]

Muster roll of Captain Joseph E. Foxcraft. The back of the document is a typewriten set of directions for annually revising muster rolls. The list of names was too long to fit on one sheet so an additional paper was attached to the bottom of the document. Some names are crossed out on the muster roll.

GLC02669.041

12 January 1813 - 28 February1813

Manuscript document

Title: [Pay roll for company of Capt. Robert Snell]

Pay roll accounts for a company of volunteers under the command of Captain Robert Snell for January and February 1813. Signature on verso certifying that the Snell's company is under "the service of the United States."

GLC02669.042

5 January 1813 - February 1813

Manuscript document

Title: [Military supply receipt roll]

A receipt roll of arms from "Captain Snell's company", signed by 60 soldiers, for swords, guns, ammunition, knapsacks, and other military items. Includes witnesses and remarks sections.

GLC02669.043

circa 1813

Manuscript document

Title: [Military pay rolls]

A pay roll document for soldiers, likely from the War of 1812. There is a sizable hole in the center of the document that has resulted in some text loss. Handdrawn calculations, presumably adding up wages or expenses, on both pages.

GLC02669.044

30 June 1813

Manuscript document

Title: Subsistence account of Ensign Jacob Bailey

Subsistence account of $36.60 for May 1, 1813 to June 30, 1813. Printed chart includes sections: commencement, expiration, no. of days, no. of rations per day, total no. of rations, post or place where due, price ration, amount, remarks.

GLC02669.045

30 June 1813

Manuscript document

Title: [Subsistence account of Ensign Jacob Bailey]

A subsistence account of $36.60 for May 1, 1813 to June 30, 1813. Copy of GLC02669.045. Signature of Jacob Bailey and handdrawn calculations on verso.

GLC02669.046

30 June 1813

Manuscript document

Title: Subsistence account of Lieut. Thomas V. Sylvester

A subsistence account of $36.60 for May 1-June 30, 1813. Sylvester was stationed in Burlington, Vermont, and was part of a regiment of volunteers.

GLC02669.047

13 June 1822

Manuscript document

Title: [Costs for cartage]

Costs for cartage with a list of people which continues on verso. Right side edge is not uniform in measurement.

GLC02669.073

1852

Horn, Hosea B., fl. 1852

Header Record

Title: Horn's overland guide, from the U.S. Indian sub-agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California... [with map] [Decimalized .01- .02]

GLC04152

1852

Horn, Hosea B., fl. 1852

Map

Title: Map to Illustrate Horn's Overland Guide to California and Oregon

Map originally attached to Horn's overland guide (housed with books, GLC 4152.01), from the U.S. Indian sub-agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California containing a table of distances, and showing all the rivers, creeks, lakes, springs, mountains, hills, camping-places, and other prominent objects, with remarks on the country, roads, timbers, grasses, curiosities, etc.; the entire route having been tracked by a road-measurer, and the distances from place to place, and from the Missouri River, accurately ascertained. With a complete and accurate map…

GLC04152.02

October 21, 1910

Nichols, A.A., fl. 1861-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Owen Horsfall

Nichols is writing for Owen's Father saying that clothes he is sending to his father should wait for Spring, and not to send it over the land during winter since it will take too long. Also that he will be dissapointed not to be able to write but the steamer (the Queen) is leaving early. Written at Fort Davis

GLC05245.54

February 13, 1848