Search | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Our Collection

At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Start New Search

12415 search results

Filter:

Only return results with full-sized images

Sort by

Advanced search

Keyword

Author

Subjects

Place written

Year

Sub-era

circa 1795-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Thoughts on the establishment of the U.S. Navy]

Discusses Henry Knox's role in the establishment of the U.S. Navy.

GLC02437.08173

circa 1789-1796

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Memo]

Discusses land deals with Madame de Leval and Mr. de la Roche, most likely in regards to land in Maine.

GLC02437.08178

circa 1791-1806

Leval, Rosalie Josephe Bacler de, ?-1811

Autograph letter

Title: to Henry Knox [in French]

Verso, in another hand, includes a detailed diagram of a structure (Knox's house?).

GLC02437.08179

1784

Tudor, William, 1750-1819

Manuscript document

Title: [Report]

Discusses a misunderstanding regarding the presentation to Congress by [Richard] Soderstrom of his credentials as consul from Sweden. Docket attributes this to "Judge [William] Tudor." Probably in a secretarial hand.

GLC02437.08180

circa 1784-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Concerning land in Maine]

Discusses the inhabitants of Thomaston, Maine and land business.

GLC02437.08181

circa 1788-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [incomplete]

Says that the "forgoing principles" should be "[debated] according to the legal [forms]" and that additions and explanations advised by Mr. A. Ogden and Mr. Hornblower should be made. Possibly related to GLC02437.03775.

GLC02437.08185

24 September 1787

Hornblower, John, fl. 1787

Autograph document signed

Title: [Directions for mining]

Discusses the necessary measures for proper mining.

GLC02437.08191

24 September 1787

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: The heads or principles of the lease

Discusses copper mines and a related lease. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.08192

circa 1787-1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Lease details]

Contract concerning a lease for copper mines.

GLC02437.08193

circa 1793

Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

Autograph document

Title: [Recommendations submitted to the Commissioners regarding the U.S. relations with the Six Nations]

An outline of conduct during the treaty with the Six Nations as recommended by the Commissioners. Promotes and establishes a peaceful relationship between the settlers and Indians. Date previously inferred in pencil.

GLC02437.08196

circa 1790-1795

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Notes]

Estimates to pay and equip troops, and sums for the governor, as superintendent of Indian Affairs "to effect a peace before the start of the campaign."

GLC02437.08197

circa 1783-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Fragment] [incomplete]

Fragment from a longer document discussing education.

GLC02437.08199

circa 1790

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Regarding Creek Indians] [incomplete]

Discusses land claims and the conflict and wars this is causing with the Creek Indians. Vigorously argues in favor of a treaty (probably the 1790 Treaty of New York).

GLC02437.08201

circa 1794

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: to the Senate and House of Representatives

Informs the Legislature that the sum currently set aside for the fortification of certain seaports and harbors is not enough.

GLC02437.08206

circa 1795-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Notes]

Discusses land for grazing, fencing, wood, gutters, and other various items related to farming and estate maintenance.

GLC02437.08208

1794

Manuscript document

Title: [Vessels and treaties with France]

Lists items regarding treaties between the United States and France, particularly regarding ships and other vessels. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.08210

circa 1789-1794

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Indian relations]

Discusses relations with the Indians and the possibility that, if united, they could raise a force of 15,000 warriors.

GLC02437.08211

January 4 -January 15, 1786

Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816

Manuscript document

Title: [Letters to John Hancock and Joseph Martin]

A set of copied letters to John Hancock and Joseph Martin regarding treaties with the Indians. The first is addressed to Charles Thomson and signed by both Hawkins and Andrew Pickens. The second is addressed to Hancock, dated 4 January 1786 and signed by Hawkins, Pickens and Joseph Martin. The third is dated 14 January of the same year and signed by the same as the previous. The rest are unsigned and dated up to 15 January 1786. Noted as written in Hopewell, a plantation in South Carolina. Evidently relates to one of the three Hopewell Treaties between the U.S. and Cherokee, Choctaw and…

GLC02437.08213

October 1786

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Notes]

Docketed as "some minutes respecting the terms of the proposed loan to the U.S - for [illegible] the troops to be raised by virtues of the resolve of Congress of the 20th October 1786." The loan is for $500,000. (The troops were being raised to quell Shays's Rebellion.)

GLC02437.08214