20 June 1804

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Autograph document signed

Title: [Indentures for the sale of a farm on the Raritan River in New Jersey]

Also signed by Ann Pierce, Charles Wilkes, and Henry Brockholst Livingston. Records a sequence of ownership of a farm property. Pages 1 and 2 are the indenture of Ann Pierce selling a farm "on the south side of the Raritan River in the county of Somerset in the State of New Jersey about a mile and a half above the town of New Brunswick" to Hamilton on 30 April 1803. Certifies that he may sell the land and use the proceeds to pay a bond of Nathaniel Pendleton and John Bard. Page 3 is Hamilton's indenture, which includes his name written five times, signed and sealed by Hamilton and…

GLC02308

23 March 1798

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Breckinridge

Writes to Breckinridge, a former neighbor of Monroe in Albemarle County, Virginia who moved to Kentucky in 1793. Was a member of Kentucky House of Representatives when he received this letter. Monroe had recently returned from France, burdened with debts and writes that he wants to sell his Revolutionary War land bonus in Kentucky. Writes of problems with the sale. Says he is returning to practice of law in Richmond. He mentions early news of XYZ affair from Pinckney, Gerry and Marshall in Paris and rumors of Napoleon invading England.

GLC02323

30 July 1799

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Letter signed

Title: to Sylvanus Bourne

Marked duplicate. Written by Pickering as Secretary of State to Bourne, a merchant and Counsel General of the United States to the Netherlands. Acknowledges letter of 10 May 1799. Pickering says he can return to America, despite the United States Minister to the Netherlands William Vans Murray's mission to Paris. Murray went to Paris as part of the a final peace mission to end the Quasi War, along with Patrick Henry and Oliver Ellsworth. He states there is no answer from the French government, but says the mission "will not remain in Paris to be neglected or trifled with: We shall not submit…

GLC02326

January 26, 1813

Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

Apparently a retained draft briefly outlining the manner in which Gerry will take the vice presidential oath of office It is written on the verso of the docketed address leaf of a letter from Madison to Gerry. With Madison's free frank.

GLC02343

9 May 1805

Bainbridge, William, 1774-1833

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Rodgers

Commodore Bainbridge, imprisoned after his ship went aground on the Tunisian Coast on 29 December 1803, writes to Rogers, Commodore of the Mediterranean Squadron. States that he and other prisoners "feel confident that no exertions will be wanting in our brother officers to retain us, we only regret that we cannot share the honor and danger with them."

GLC02352

22 September 1792

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Document signed

Title: [Remitting fine and property to Marshall Jenkins].

Signed as secretary of the treasury. Remittance of the Brig "Betsy" and a cask of alcohol to the petitioner, Marshall Jenkins, after it had been forfeited.

GLC02355

25 August 1796

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Stephen Van Rensselaer

Writing to his brother-in-law, New York State Senator Stephen Van Rensselaer (1791-1796), Hamilton introduces Minister of the French Republic Pierre Auguste Adet (1795-1797), who is visiting Albany, New York.

GLC02356

February 1, 1785

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Document signed

Title: to William Davis and Benjamin Russell

Countersigned by John Avery as Secretary of State. Calls for Davis and Russell to take depositions from Patience and William Cornell regarding their divorce. Note on page two dated 8 February 1785 and signed by Justice William Davis, states that he has performed the duty requested. With paper seal of Massachusetts.

GLC02357

6 August 1808

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to Eli Williams, Thomas Moore, and Joseph Kerr

President Jefferson writes to the commissioners of the Cumberland Road about reexamining its route from Washington, Pennsylvania, to Wheeling, Pennsylvania. Explains that "the principal object of this road is a communication directly westwardly if however inconsiderable deflections from this course will benefit particular places and better accommodate travellers, these are circumstances to be taken into consideration." Written as president.

GLC02148

4 March 1805

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Broadside

Title: President Jefferson's Inaugural Speech

President Jefferson's inaugural speech, given after his official reelection in 1805: "Mr. Jefferson appeared in the Chamber of the United States Senate, where his reelection was declated, and the necessary oath administered to him." Printed on silk by True and Parks, Washington.

GLC02151

1762-1939

Noyes, Thomas, 1754-1819

Header Record

Title: Thomas Noyes archive and collateral [Decimalized .01 - .56.03]

Collection contains Continental Army commissions papers, a company journal, a Continental Congress pamphlet, and family scrapbooks and genealogy.

GLC02150

30 March 1798

Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833

Document signed

Title: [Public notice of amendment to an act for duties on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper]

Signed by Wolcott as Secretary of Treasury. Details amendments made to an act passed 6 July 1797 concerning duties on paper.

GLC02153

May 2, 1793

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Broadside

Title: A Proclamation [printer's proof of neutrality proclamation]

Printer's broadside proof of Washington's neutrality proclamation printed at the Columbian Centinel (Boston). The date is inferred.

GLC02391

January 13, 1794

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tench Coxe

Thanks Coxe, a statesman and economist, for a paper he sent him concerning various trade products. Asks a series of questions about exports and re-exports, European markets, and market discrimination against America. Makes reference to an export statistic on indigo, potash, and pearl ash provided by Adam Anderson, who published "An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce" in 1790. Madison may have been gathering information for a speech he gave on 30 January 1794 in which he discussed British re-exportation of indigo, potash and pearl ash. Signed in text as "Mr.…

GLC02387

4 July 1788

J. Dunlap and D.C. Claypoole, 1784-1790

Newspaper

Title: The Pennsylvania packet, and daily advertiser. [No. 2939 (July 4, 1788)]

Prints a description of the order and accoutrements of a procession in honor of the establishment of the Constitution. Articles on commerce and foreign intelligence. Contains news from Europe and around the country and many advertisements. Prints a notice from the Philadelphia Board of Commissioners reminding merchants of recently enacted regulations on street vending. Pages have separated and are no longer bound together.

GLC02432

3 August 1791

Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Thanks the recipient for information in a previous letter, about the "hostile disposition of the Indians on the Frontiers." Shares his hope that federal treaties will ease the recipient's apprehensions and "produce a general peace." Introduces Col. Proctor, Mr. Boone and Mr. Linklain, who have brought the present letter on their trip to the "interior counties," and asks the recipient to help and accommodate them if possible.

GLC02207

circa 1809

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Broadside

Title: Dignified retirement: parody on the house that Jack built, -- fitted to the times

A parody of the nursery rhyme styled upon eighteenth century children's chapbooks making fun of Jefferson's retirement at a time of national crisis. The figures are rough allegories of Jefferson (alternately a king then a priest, retiring to a "Mountain" [Monticello] to study philosophy), the American navy (de-commissioned by Jefferson), the Embargo, the British Fleet and the American volunteer army. The woodcut of the coach is printed upside down to represent how the Embargo "has turned all things up side down, and stopped the wheels of national prosperity." The title may come from Peter…

GLC02209

22 November 1811

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Letter signed

Title: to John Steele

Informs that he has shipped to Steele 29 boxes containing volumes of the laws of the United States passed by the 11th Congress. Asks him to forward them to the addressed governors of the states and territories. Encloses a receipt (not present).

GLC02367

circa 1797-1800

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Trial notes in a case involving nonpayment of an indemnity for a ship seized by the French]

Written by Alexander Hamilton as counsel to the ship master, answering the underwriter's attempt to avoid payment. An armed American ship carrying unspecified contraband was seized by the French, and the ship's Master attempted to take back the vessel. Argues that the ship was legally armed "with intent to resist privateers" and that the Master's attempt to retake the ship was legal. Uses testimony to show the Mate and crew supported the Master and did not act belligerently against the French boarding party. Docket title reads: Autograph brief of Genl Hamilton.

GLC02377

7 March 1799

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Pitcairn

Written by Pickering as Secretary of State to Pitcairn as American Consul in Hamburg. Based on previous information from Pitcairn, Pickering says dispatches sealed in false bottoms of tubs owned by three mulattoes, one white man, and one white woman have been seized. Pickering forwarded the information to South Carolina Governor Edward Rutledge, who had the dispatches seized from the ship Minerva in Charleston. They are being examined by General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Encloses a report and two copies of Elbridge Gerry's correspondence, which are not included.

GLC02381

1 October 1807

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Pinkney

Monroe, Joint Minister to Great Britain with Pinkney, sends to Pinkney an enclosed commission and letters of credence (not included) to the British King and Queen. States that the United States government hopes that Pinkney will take Monroe's place as Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain.

GLC02098

16 September 1797

Bradford, William, 1729-1808

Document signed

Title: [Instrument of protest]

Signed by Bradford as notary public. James Bowers, Master of the Brigantine Flora from New York, had been seized and all his goods confiscated by a Royal Navy Schooner of War, the George and Ophelia. The protest notes that "perfect Peace and Amity existed between Great Britain and the... United States" at that time.

GLC02108

1786

Little, William, fl. 1780-1786

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Navigational journal]

Contains numerous charts and geometric diagrams in water color. Includes meticulous information on the navigational aspects of geometry. Contains a Mercator's chart created by Little in Newburyport under the tutelage of Bartholomew Horace Burgess dated 1 March 1786. Journal entries document the "Ship Juno ... William Little Commander On a Voyage from England Towards Madeira 1786."

GLC02119

1791

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Pamphlet

Title: Report the subject of the Cod and Whale Fisheries...

Printed by Francis Childs and John Swain. Folio. A-G2 ($1 signed). Full title: "Report of The Secretary of State, on the Subject of the Cod and Whale Fisheries, Made Conformably to an Order of The House of Representatives...." The House issue of this landmark state paper, one of the most important reports made by Jefferson as the first Secretary of State, ranking in importance with his weights and measures report and commerce report. It is important on two levels: first, as the best statistical report on the history and state of the American fisheries and whaling industry; and second, as a…

GLC02123

1804

Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture

Pamphlet signed

Title: Papers on agriculture ; consisting of communications made to the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture.

Signed by Henry Knox on front cover. Contains articles on various subjects within the field of agriculture such as using gypsum in agriculture, the culture of potatoes, grafting of trees, etc. Published by the Trustees of the Society. Printed by Young & Minns. Pages are uncut. Edges are very frayed.

GLC02143