1781/01/20

United States. Continental Congress.

Autograph document signed

Title: Extract from minutes urging Governor of Delaware to send troops to Trenton

Written as Secretary of Congress. [Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.39

1776/01/03

Tilghman, Matthew, 1718-1790

Document signed

Title: Military commission

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.40

1775/08/04

Trumbull, Joseph, fl. 1775

Autograph letter signed

Title: Payment for and storage of molasses

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.41

1757/12/19

Ward, Samuel, 1756-1832

Autograph document signed

Title: to Thomas Richardson re: voucher for payment to Edward Saunders

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.43

1791/01/10

Wisner, Henry, 1720-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Simeon De Witt re: land grant

Possibly the son of Continental Congress member Henry Wisner. (The elder Wisner died in 1790).

GLC02471.44

1789/03/15

Wisner, Henry, 1720-1790

Document signed

Title: Certificate & receipt of payment as delegate to NY Convention (c/s Geo Clinton)

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.45

1837/03/31

Long, Stephen H., 1784-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Harlan

Thanks Dr. Harlan for the present he sent to Mrs. Long. Mentions receiving instruction for surveys of Maine and Massachusetts, which he will engage when the weather improves and the winter cold abates. Mentions sending a box of presents.

GLC02475.09

1797/04/14

Robertson, James, 1742-1814

Letter signed

Title: to David Henley

Asks for a response on the subject of corn that he purchased for the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians. There are questions due to some confusion over a payment issue.

GLC02475.13

1860/10/15

Ellet, Charles, fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. Thomas re: regarding family

GLC02480.04

1805/11/07

Evans, Oliver, 1755-1819

Letter signed

Title: to [Charles Willing Hare]

Addressed to "C.W. Hear." Acknowledges receipt of a notice to vacate a lot he had leased from William Bingham and agrees to vacate the property by May 1, 1806. American inventor Oliver Evans is credited with inventing the first high-pressure steam engine as well as other steam-driven machines. Bingham, former Continental Congressman and U.S. senator, had died the previous year. Hare was Bingham's nephew and lawyer.

GLC02480.06

1775/05/15

Fitch, John, 1743-1798

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for Robert Stocton for payment in full]

Receipt to Robert Stocton [Stockton?] for payment in full. Accompanied by incomplete letter of the same date, apparently in a different hand, stating "The enclosed letter came to my Hands of," with monetary calculations. John Fitch designed and successfully launched the first steamboat in 1787. He received a U.S. patent for his steamboat in 1791. In the 1770's, Fitch made a living in Trenton as a silversmith, gunsmith, and provisioner of Continental Army troops.

GLC02480.07

1805/07/02

Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Philips

Encloses his remarks [not present] on a book by Richard Parkinson (1748-1815), which he has read at the request of Sir John Sinclair. Fulton explains that his remarks are written in the form of a letter to Sinclair. He also encloses "a Sketch of Philadelphia which maybe of use" [not present]. Fulton was then residing in England. Parkinson's 1805 book "Tour in America in 1798, 1799, and 1800: Exhibiting Sketches of Society and Manners, and a Particular Account of the American System of Agriculture, with Its Recent Improvements" was highly critical of American society and its "widely…

GLC02480.08

1898/03/25

Gray, Elisha, 1835-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: a copy of an article

GLC02480.10

[1847 ca.]

Header Record

Title: Collection of 10 documents relating to or by participants in the Mexican War [Decimalized .01- .11]

GLC02494

1852/01/16

Butler, William Orlando, 1791-1880

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lynn Boyd re: results of a political convention

GLC02494.01

1875/01/03

Harney, William S., fl. 1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ulysses S. Grant re: recommendation for appointee for collector of revenue

GLC02494.03

1905 ca.

Rockwood, George Gardner, 1832-1911

Photograph signed

Title: [Richard P. Hobson]

Signed on mount.

GLC02494.04

1801/06/12

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert R. Livingston re: letter of introduction, Livingston's appointment

Expressing satisfaction in Livingston's appointment as Minister to France. With clipping adhered to document. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02495

1806/02/24

Preble, Edward, 1761-1807

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Smith

Commodore Preble recommends Charles Morris as a person to transmit secret government dispatches should they be needed while European powers were at war. Hopes Secretary of the Navy Smith will recommend Morris to President James Madison. Morris had served under Preble on the frigate Constitution and continued to serve on the Constitution during the War of 1812.

GLC02497.14

1789/02/05

Butler, John, 1728-1796

Letter signed

Title: to Jelles Fonda

Inquires into whether a certain Indian owns a particular piece of land. If the Indian does own it, Butler wants to know if the Indian can sell it, and how much it is worth.

GLC02498.02

1813/09/21

Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Camp

Requests supplies including "tents, Camp kettles, pans, axes & spades" for the New York militia's move to Maryland. Sent to Captain Camp at the department of the quartermaster general.

GLC02498.19

1813/04/03

Lewis, Morgan, 1754-1844

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for $10,000 for expenses during the War of 1812]

Documents the receipt from Major General Henry Dearborn of $10,000 for the defense of the Niagara frontier. Lewis was a former governor of New York who served as the quartermaster general of the United States army and also as a major general on the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812.

GLC02499.13

1684/10/16

Bent, Peter, fl. 1684

Manuscript document

Title: Account of Robert Livingston [in Dutch]

Account sheet detailing debts of Robert Livingston to Peter Bent. P.2 contains scattered mathematical equations. Docketed on verso.

GLC03107.00120

1684/10/26

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document

Title: Land Transaction with Major Dirkursses

Livingston conveys unto Maj. Dirkursses a tract of land contained within Roeloff Johnsons Kill occuppied by Jacob Vosburgh's farm. "Agents Letters" printed on verso.

GLC03107.00121

1684/10/29

Bueno, Joseph, fl. 1684

Manuscript document signed

Title: Account of Robert Livingston

Livingston's account with Bueno for provisions including molasses, pewter, and tobacco, totalling £57.

GLC03107.00122