15 March 1785

Floyd, William, 1734-1821

Autograph document signed

Title: Certificate to replace promissary note lost by Obadiah Smith

Docket and receipt penned on verso.

GLC00184.10

18 June 1786

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Document signed

Title: Document authorizing payment to Alexander Parker (c/s John Nicholson)

Signed by Franklin as President of the Pennsylvania Executive Council. Docket and receipt penned on verso, with latter signed by Stephen Duncan.

GLC00184.11

09 September 1783

Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790

Document signed

Title: Certificate of 600 acres of land for Capt. William McIntosh

[Title continued] in two warrants of 300 acres each. Signed as Georgia governor.

GLC00184.14

11 September 1783

Harrison, Benjamin (ca. 1726-1791)

Document signed

Title: Land grant to Private John Brett for service during the Revolutionary War

Partially printed document signed as governor of Virginia. Counter-signed by Thomas Meriwether.

GLC00184.16

13 August 1788

Heyward, Thomas, 1746-1809

Document signed

Title: Warrant for arrest of Thomas Hasell for debts outstanding

Partially printed document. Signed John Drayton as attorney; c/s Thomas Heyward, Jr. Docket signed by Sam Dwight as sheriff.

GLC00184.19

29 May 1787

Hooper, William, 1742-1790

Document signed

Title: to Bazil Smith

re: violated bond of Jacob Sykes

GLC00184.20

19 June 1786

Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791

Document signed

Title: Legal instrument re: debt case of John Schaffer

Shaffer, a merchant and owner of the schooner "Betsey," was indebted to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 50 pounds.

GLC00184.22

19 May 1788

Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796

Document signed

Title: Appointment of Elijah Tredway as Ensign 16th Co

Cosigned by George Wyllys, Secretary. With paper seal. Signed as governor of Connecticut.

GLC00184.23

28 March 1792

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

Document signed

Title: to Andrew Clove and Co. re: debt owed to George Thomson

Note on verso transmits collection to Lee, who signed verso in receipt.

GLC00184.26

02 June 1787

Morris, Lewis, 1726-1798

Document signed

Title: Announcement of winners of NYS Senate elections

Cosigned by Robert Livingston and others.

GLC00184.32

May 23, 1798

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nicholas Low

Morris's efforts to "liberate Mr. Low and carry him back to Baltimore where I believe he very much wishes to be."

GLC00184.33

21 April 1789

Paca, William, 1740-1799

Autograph document signed

Title: Receipt for payment by Thomas Harwood

[Title continued] of the sum 333 pounds 6s., or two-thirds of the money due on a tract of land known as Paca's Forest.

GLC00184.36

January 1811

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

Autograph document signed

Title: Petition to Select and Common Council of the City of Philadelphia

[Title continued] re: repairs to be made to an alley commonly known as "Willlings Alley." Signed by Rush's son and 22 others, mostly on verso.

GLC00184.42

January 15, 1794

Rutledge, Edward, 1749-1800

Document signed

Title: Bond of 800 pounds owed to Alexander Gillon by John and Edward Rutledge

Signed in receipt on verso by Ann P. Gillon as executrix. Also signed by John Rutledge.

GLC00184.43

November 29, 1788

Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter Mallet

Sherman informs Mallet of his son's visit to Charleston and asks that he befriend him and pay the small balance he owes to him. Mentions receiving a letter from Mallet and thanks him for the information it contained.

GLC00184.44

May 12, 1784

Smith, James, 1713-1806

Autograph note signed

Title: re: debt case of John Wilson and John Wilson, Sr.

With 5-line note signed in Smith's hand as attorney for the Wilsons.

GLC00184.45

January 12, 1791

Walton, George, 1740-1804

Document signed

Title: Document ordering Wm Glascock to appear before the court

Signed beneath the wax seal as Justice of the State Superior Court. Also signed by Thomas Watkins as clerk.

GLC00184.50

March 5, 1802

Williams, William, 1731-1811

Autograph letter signed

Title: To unknown

The note discusses the unsettled case in Windham County Court. Document contains 3-line attestation by Williams on recto.

GLC00184.52

02 November 1785

Wolcott, Oliver, 1726-1797

Document signed

Title: Writ re: debt case of Cyrus Beers

Summons for Samuel Osborn, Reuben Brady and Lazarus Thomas to appear before Fairfield County Court, CT for failing to pay debt to Cyrus Beers.

GLC00184.55

September 19, 1796

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph note

Title: Printed Farewell address with autograph note (written on Claypoole's Advertiser)

Printed copy of Washington's farewell address in Claypoole's Advertiser. Washington has added manuscript notes to his copyist for copying: "The letter contained in this Gazette addressed to the People of the United States is to be Recorded -- and in the order of its da[te.] [Pointing hand] Let it have a blank page before & after so as to stand distinct as it were. -- Let it be wrote with a letter larger & fully [sic] than the common recording hand -- and where words are printed with capital letters it is to be done so in Recording this letter -- and where other words that are printed…

GLC00185

May 5, 1799

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James McHenry

Marked private. In response to McHenry's private letter of April 29, which was a response to Washington's letter of April 23. Washington, commander of the Provisional Army created in 1798 in response to French aggression, wrote to McHenry, Secretary of War in the Adams Administration, on the issue of rank and pay in the army. Officers who lived farther away from the capital received their commissions later than those who lived closer. Since rank was calculated by time of acceptance, those living farther away felt slighted. He agrees with the solution that McHenry suggested to the President…

GLC00204

August 3, 1796

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Rutherford

Written as Vice-President. Adams discusses Bordley's notes on the report of the Board of Agriculture; his escape from politics during the summer; hopes to hear more on Rutherford's thoughts on agriculture. Numbered "155." at top of page 1. Written at Sober Hill.

GLC00188

March 10, 1789

Ellery, William, 1727-1820

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Huntington

Writes to reprise a letter he had previously sent stating that he wishes "to hold some post under the new government." Prefers to be made a judge for the Eastern District, and in that case would like his son, William Ellery Jr., to succeed him as loan officer. If Ellery is not appointed a judge, he would like to remain loan officer and also be appointed a "collector of Impost" for Rhode Island, if that office is created. Informs Huntington that he sent a similar letter to Congressmen Oliver Ellsworth and Roger Sherman and asks him to tell them of this letter. Pleads with Huntington to look…

GLC00192

1787

Varnum, James M., fl. 1787

Pamphlet

Title: The case of Trevett against Weeden: On Information and Complaint,....

Evans 20825, Kress B1355, Sabin 98638. Original blue/gray wrappers, reinforced (?). Stamp on titlepage of: Rhode Island Historical Society. The legal case tested the powers of the Articles of Confederation to the right of Trial by Jury.

GLC00201

1780-1789

United States. Continental Congress.

Book

Title: Resolutions, acts and orders of Congress, for the year 1780 : volume VI

Journals of Congress. Evans 20079

GLC00219.06