30 June 1785

Smith & Loring, fl. 1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Statement]

Signed by Smith & Loring company. Statement of William Knox's account with Joshua Loring. Includes years 1782, 1783, and 1785.

GLC02437.10616

circa 1792

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph note

Title: [Note]

Signature is not listed but appears to be in Knox's handwriting. Appears to be a note about account information involving Henry Knox and William Duer. Various numbers and notes are noted on docket page. Most likely a draft. Date was added later on the docket in pencil.

GLC02437.10618

circa 1796-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

Account of Henry Knox's and the estate of the late Thomas Flucker. Includes a list of person names and pounds possibly owing through 1794 to 1795. 1806 noted on the docket.

GLC02437.10620

25 May 1795

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Financial agreement]

A financial transaction involving Henry Knox, George Meade, and Samuel Hodgdon. Lists drafts and orders accepted by Meade amounting in the sum of $31,136.32. Noted that the drafts and orders were drawn by Knox in favor of Hodgdon. Each party noted and signed their confirmation of the sums dated 26 May 1795.

GLC02437.10622

25 May 1798

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

Account of orders drawn by John Gleason from 6 December 1797 to 25 May 1798. Various names and dollar amounts are listed. Document possibly has John Gleason's signature but is likely a docket. Date taken from docket.

GLC02437.10626

2 May 1806

Wales & Beale, fl. 1795-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Account]

Dr. Wales & Beale account with General Henry Knox. Lists dates, articles, times, interest, and amounts from 2 May 1806 to 31 July 1806.

GLC02437.10628

29 April 1788

Newspaper

Title: The Pennsylvania Mercury and Universal Advertiser

Letter from "A Free Negro" printed in the Pennsylvania Mercury and Universal Advertiser. "I am one of that unfortunate race of men who are distinguished from the rest of the human species by black skin and woolly hair, disadvantages of very little moment in themselves, but which prove to us a source of the greatest misery, because there are men who will not be persuaded, that it is impossible for a human soul to be lodged within a sable body..." Issue also includes one of John Dickinson's "Letters of Fabius" supporting the Federal Constitution.

GLC09151

1806

Stewart, Samuel, fl. 1806

Manuscript document

Title: [List of accounts]

List of accounts belonging to Captain Samuel Stewart. Includes the names of Samuel Stewart and Nathaniel Greene (not the Revolutionary War general).

GLC02016.179.02

10 April 1788

Hodgdon, Alexander, fl. 1788

Document

Title: to the Sherriff of Lincoln County

Partially printed document with information written in by hand. A tax collection on the heirs of Brigadier General [Samuel] Waldo in the amount of £94 and 15 shillings and 10 pence.

GLC02437.10647

circa 1796-1806

Gleason, John, fl. 1796-1811

Map

Title: [Map of land]

A sketch of land surveyed by John Gleason. Cover 50,000 acres of land likely located in Maine. Shows a pond and various land marks in water colors and has a partially colored border.

GLC02437.10650

circa 1784-1806

Map

Title: [Map of land]

A drawn map of lands near the Penobscot River in Maine. Land is noted as belonging to the heirs of Brigadier [General Samuel] Waldo. Lakes and rivers are noted in blue water color. Includes a drawn compass showing cardinal directions.

GLC02437.10652

circa 1790

Map

Title: [Map of land]

Noted as a copy. Drawn sketch of a plan for the northwestern part of the Waldo Patent located in Maine. Depicts county lines and the northern and western boundaries of the Waldo Patent. Date was added later in pencil.

GLC02437.10666

August 1807

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Fragment]

Unsigned fragment. "It would be dishonourable, and might be ruinous if without a redress of our wrongs war did not promptly follow the expiration of the embargo. No other alternative is left to our choice. Every other expedient has been tried and failed...We cannot retrace our steps and abandon, perhaps forever, our most important rights...It would be folly in the extreme to attempt to disguise from ourselves the true character of the present embargo. It is not an engine to be wielded in negotiation. From the privations to which it may expose the belligerents nothing ought to be expected. If…

GLC09135

4 March 1803

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States [Marbury vs. Madison]

Landmark Supreme Court decision reported in the Gazette of the United States. "The Chief Justice this day declared the opinion of the court...on the motion of Mr. G. Lee for a rule to shew cause why a Madamus should not issue to compel James Madison, secretary of state of the United States, to deliver to William Marbury and others, their commission of the peace, for the district of Columbia, it was determined, that the act of Congress giving the power to the Supreme Court, to issue a writ of mandamus in such a case, was unconstitutional, and consequently void. The rule therefore was dismissed…

GLC09144

7 June 1783

Howell, Joseph, 1750-1798

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account between John Ely and Connecticut]

Formal record listing money owed to Ely by Connecticut. Includes pay and reimbursement for expenses incurred during fighting.

GLC01450.143.21

5 May 1790

Howell, Joseph, 1750-1798

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account betwee John Ely and Connecticut]

Formal record listing money to Ely by Connecticut. Includes pay of one dollar per day for time while he was captured, and reimbursement for expenses such as rations incurred during fighting. Includes conversion values between old currencies and new dollars. Signed twice by Howell as the General Commissioner for the Office of Army Accounts.

GLC01450.143.22

May 12, 1783

Elmer, Ebenezer, 1752-1843

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hannah Seeley

Speaks of his desire to return to a peaceful life now that the war is over. "As we have now happily terminated a war which has raged for eight full years with every species of Horror, I contemplate the speedy return to the peaceful paths of domestic life with the greatet pleasure. To change the fatigues difficulties& dangers of a military life for the comfort & conveniences of peace must tast truly sweet to a [] susceptible of true satisfaction. Shall I be so fortunate as to exchange the wild banner of Mars for the mild bands of Hymen I may be blessed indeed." Speaks of his love for…

GLC01450.165.02

1789

Hopkins, Jonathan, fl. 1781-1789

Printed document signed

Title: [Receipt for the United States Chronicle]

Hopkins acknowledges receipt of the Chronicle 15 March 1789-1 July 1789. Partially printed, and payable to Dr. Bennett Wheeler, a Providence, Rhode Island publisher and printer.

GLC01450.444.02.10

9 October 1807

Sullivan, James, 1744-1808

Printed document signed

Title: [Appointement for James Elliot]

Appoints James Elliot as a major and aide de camp for Major General Simon Elliot. Signed by James Sullivan as Governor of Massachusetts. Also signed by Jonathan L. Austin as "Secretary." Docket on verso is signed by Simon Elliot and reads "James H. Elliot took and subscribed the oaths and declarations perscribed by the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts previous to his entering upon the duties assigned him by the within Commission." Features paper seal.

GLC01450.448.01

1825

Russel, J., fl. 1825

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Perkins

Russel states that General Lafayette would like to see Perkins "after divine service this afternoon." Hopes that Perkins can persuade General Elliot to be there as well, since Lafayette would like to see him as well. Says Lafayette must be back in Boston by the evening. The letter is addressed to Perkins in "Brooklyn," which refers to Brookline, Massachusetts, where Perkins lived. Possibly written in 1825 when Lafayette visited Boston to help dedicate the Bunker Hill Monument, which Perkins contributed extensively towards.

GLC01450.448.02

December 13, 1786

Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790

Document signed

Title: [Appointment for Simon Elliot as captain]

Appoints Elliot as an Adjutant in the militia with the rank of captain under the command of General Benjamin Lincoln. This militia was being raised to put down Shay's rebellion. At the time it was actually an illegitimate militia put together by the upper classes in Massachusetts to put down the rebellion, but it later became legitimate. Also signed by James Austin as "Secretary." Massachusetts state seal is attached by a ribbon.

GLC01450.448.03

18 June 1796

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803

Printed document signed

Title: [Appointment for Simon Elliot as Major General]

Appoints Elliot to the rank of Major General in the first division of the Massachusetts Militia. Massachusetts state seal affixed. Signed by Samuel Adams as Governor of Massachusetts. Also signed by John Avery as "Secretary." Docket on verso attests that Elliot took "the oaths and declarations prescribed by the Constitution," and is signed by Samuel Cooper as Justice of the Peace.

GLC01450.448.04

January 10, 1799

Henry, James W., fl. 1799

Printed letter signed

Title: to Simon Elliot

McHenry informs Elliot that the President has appointed him "Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry in the army of the United States." Letter written from the War Department.

GLC01450.448.05

15 November 1800

Strong, Caleb, 1745-1819

Printed document signed

Title: [Appointment of Simon Elliot as major general]

Appoints Simon Elliot as Major General in the Massachusetts Militia. Elliot had been appointed to the same rank in 1796, which the document mentions. Signed by Caleb Strong as Governor of Massachusetts. Also signed by John Avery as "Secretary." Massachusetts State seal affixed.

GLC01450.448.06

24 October 1783

Dawson, George, fl. 1771-1832

Manuscript document

Title: [Authorization for Mr. Macdonogh of Brampton, England, to have power of attorney for Dawson]

Dawson, son of the late Roper Dawson, attests that he is serving as a captain of a company in the British Legion and has been deprived of property in New York and elsewhere in America "on Account of my Loyalty to his Majesty and my Attachment to the British Government." As a consequence of Dawson's embarking from London for Nova Scotia, he empowers Macdonogh to pursue a memorial petition seeking indemnification from the Crown for the losses that resulted from his being a loyalist during the American Revolution.

GLC01450.610.05