1789

Header Record

Title: Collection of two issues of the Gazette of the United States, no. 60-61 [Decimalized]

GLC08757

16 September 1789

Gazette of the United States

Newspaper

Title: [Gazette of the United States; no. 45].

Prints the debate on a permanent capital for the federal government. Contains a long speech by James Madison in favor of the Potomac River as a site for the capital. (See Pendleton-Madison correspondence, GLC00099.144?) Reports a copy of the act to establish the Treasury Department.

GLC08759

21 November 1795

Bunce, George, 1764-1817

Newspaper

Title: The Herald; a gazette for the country. [Vol. 2, no. 154 (November 21, 1795)]

Issue in which Alexander Hamilton defends salaries paid by the government. Other news includes local New York news, news from Europe, ship arrivals, postings, and advertisements.

GLC08762

29 July 1789

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [No. 31 (July 29, 1789)]

Act establishing Dept of Foreign Affairs.

GLC08767

1795

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Book

Title: Message of the President [official documents re: Genet affair]

Printed by Matthew Carey

GLC08660

1809

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President... A statement of the militia....

GLC08698

6 January 1800

Hudson & Goodwin, fl. 1787-1800

Newspaper

Title: The Connecticut courant. [Vol. 35, No. 182 (January 6, 1800)]

Includes President John Adams' statement recommending a thirty-day mourning period to the people of the United States in memory of George Washington, who died 14 December 1799. Contains a tribute to Washington in place of the Courant's usual New Year's address. Includes domestic and foreign news, notices of sale, and announcements. Frayed along the edges and taped along the seams.

GLC08716

1796

Paine, Thomas, 1725-1802

Pamphlet

Title: Decline and fall of the English system of finance

Printed by John Page and B.F. Bache.

GLC08637

1793

Paine, Thomas, 1725-1802

Book

Title: Common sense [with seven other pamphlets from the 1790s]

Paine, Thomas. COMMON SENSE, bound with seven other tracts by Paine. Altogether eight works (in nine parts, one title consisting of two separately issued parts.) A fine collection bound in a single volume, contemp. sheep rubbed, crudely but neatly rebacked early in sheep; in very good condition throughout. These are all (with the possible exception of #4) reprints but they are early, generally within the first or second year of the original; some are rare according to NUC; the various publishers, Symonds, Williams, Jordan, and Ridgeway, represent (with the notable absence of D.I. Eaton)…

GLC08643

21 October 1789

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [No. 55 (October 21, 1789)]

The Declaration appears on p. 2. Printed by John Fenno. French Declaration of Rights of Man

GLC08651

1802

Callender, Tom, fl. 1802

Pamphlet

Title: Letters to Alexander Hamilton, king of the Feds

GLC08659

12 April 1792

Freneau, Philip, fl. 1791-1793

Newspaper

Title: National gazette. [Volume 1, no. 48]

Reprints the 24 October 1791 act of Congress entitled "An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States." This act specified the coinage that would be provided by the newly established United States Mint and the salaries of each of the employees of the Mint.

GLC08692

8 August 1798

Russell, Benjamin, 1761-1845

Newspaper

Title: Columbian centinel. [Vol. 24, no. 45 (August 8, 1798)]

Printed on page one and signed in type by John Adams is the complete text of the Sedition Act, which legalized the arrest of persons who criticize the government of the United States. Other articles detail news of the various states, international news, and advertisements.

GLC08693

1785

Great Britain. Treaties.

Header Record

Title: A Collection of all the treaties... between Great Britain and other powers...

Printed by J. Debrett. Covers the period between 1648 to 1783. Volume 1 covers 1648-1713; volume 2 covers 1713- 1748; Volume 3 covers 1750-1784. Inscribed by J. Hope. Library Board of Trade stamp on title page.

GLC08712

2 April 1806

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Pamphlet

Title: Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means...

Title continues, " ... relating to the redemption within a fixed period, of the whole of the public debt of the United States." Printed by A. & G. Way, Printers. Details the public debt. With a table showing the amount of principle redeemed per quarter.

GLC08582

1801-1804

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Book

Title: Reports of Secretary of Treasury, re: Louisiana purchase

GLC08583

18 April 1789-22 April 1789

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [No. 3 (April 18, 1789-April 22, 1789)]

Issue describes Adams' s trip from Massachusetts to New York to assume the vice presidency and presidency of the Senate. Describes in detail his trip from Westchester into the city. Contains John Langdon's, president pro tempore of the Senate, speech on Adams assumption of chairmanship of the Senate. Also includes proceedings of House of Representatives (dated incorrectly as April 18, 1788) and a letter from 18 April 1780 by John Adams to a group of Amsterdam gentlemen. Also has articles on European affairs, including: the Dutch situation with Prussia and Spanish succession to King Charles IV…

GLC08553

20 March 1783

Willis, Nathaniel, 1755-1831

Newspaper

Title: Independent chronicle and the universal advertiser. [Vol. XV (March 20, 1783)]

Reports the preliminary terms of a peace treaty between the United States and Great Britain, ending the American Revolution. There is also a long article on suicide, political news items, and advertisements. The name "Northampton" is written on the top of p. 1. Damage to the paper has resulted in text loss and loss of the section recording the edition number.

GLC08558

12 December 1810

Russell, Benjamin, 1761-1845

Newspaper

Title: Columbian centinel. [No. 2784 (Dec. 12, 1810)]

Includes a message from President James Madison to Congress on the topic of "The embarrassments which have prevailed in our foreign relations." Also contains a "memorial of the Revolutionary Convention of West-Florida" and President Madison's proclamation annexing Western Florida. With many announcements and advertisements.

GLC08559

February 11, 1793

Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824

Document signed

Title: [Circular letter regarding fees payable to United States revenue officers]

A circular letter from the treasury department, signed by Tench Coxe, regarding fees payable to United States revenue officers handling foreign "distilled spirits, wine, and tea."

GLC08569

1793

United States. Congress (1st : 1789-1791). Senate

Book

Title: Acts passed at a second Congress [Bill of Rights]

Printed by E. Oswald.

GLC08592

1813-1814

Newspaper

Title: American weekly messenger. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (September 25, 1813)-v. 1, no. 26 (March 19, 1814)]

A weekly compilation of government documents, for the early part of the War of 1812. Vol. 1 no. 1-26. Includes two addenda. Printed (and edited by?) John Conrad.

GLC08617

1794

Butler, William Orlando, 1791-1880

Header Record

Title: Hudibras, in three parts, written in the time of the late wars

Zachary Grey, Ed.. With Hogarth's engravings. With index and errata. Bookplate of John Pollexfen Bastard on front pastedown.

GLC08411

1813-1865

Newspaper

Title: 12 miscellaneous newspapers re: Nat Turner, slavery, Lincoln, War of 1812

GLC08430

30 November 1803

Compton, Harry, fl. 1803

Document signed

Title: [Purchase of slave Kate and her three children by manumitted slave]

Legal document for the purchase of the slave Kate and her three children Ben, Caleb, and Nancy. The purchaser was "a free African" named Harry Compton, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and he left an "X" as his mark. It appears that Kate was Compton's wife and the three children belonged to them. The slaves were sold by their owner Anne Acker, of Amwell Township, New Jersey, for 100 dollars due in one year from the date of the document. Compton declared himself "a manumit & free from bondage to man or set of Men." Witnessed by John Johnson (who signed with an "X" as his mark), William Marts…

GLC08440