1814/01/29

Maze, Jas, fl. 1813-1814

Document signed

Title: Receipt of iron for Henry Livingston (1753-1823)

GLC03107.04059

1785/09/26

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Stockdale re: purchase of maps and books for inclusion into his atlas

David Franks, the bearer of this letter, was the highest-ranking Jewish officer in the Revolutionary War.

GLC03117

1790/06/09

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [Vol. II, no. 17 (June 9, 1790)]

Reports on Rhode Island's ratification of the Constitution, a debate on tonnage in the House of Representatives, and news from Europe. Also prints an extract from a speech to Congress by Massachusetts Governor John Hancock on the national debt, acts passed by Congress and ones still pending, and news items about appointments, slavery, and suicide. Same issue as GLC08720.01.

GLC03123

1789/08/26

Russell, Benjamin, 1761-1845

Newspaper

Title: The Massachusetts centinel. [Vol. XI, no. 47 (August 26, 1789)]

Gives detailed report of recent debates in House of Representatives (August 14 and 15) regarding seventeen proposed amendments to the Constitution (a Bill of Rights). Also includes international news, letters from readers, ship news, advertisements, and other miscellaneous news items.

GLC03129

1795/12/17

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Remsen, Jr. re: erratic nature of deliveries, reaction to Jay's Treaty

Concerning delivery of a nail machine, pea planting, newspaper subscriptions and France's reaction to Jay's treaty. He fears France's reaction to the treaty and that they may be silent on "the principle the Count de Vergennes once expressed to me 'great nations, Sir, said he, never complain." Docketed on address leaf. Written in Monticello

GLC04794

1814/08/30

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Graham re: commercial treaty with Britain; instructions on Florida

Madison gives instructions for forwarding the report on unsettled question of ownership of Florida; and mentions the disposition of pending appointments and commissions. Two black and white bust engravings of Madison included.

GLC04816

1787/10/01

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David Ramsay re: new Constitution is a "masterpiece of human wisdom"

GLC04838

1788/08/02

Johnston, Samuel, 1733-1816

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Tariff resolution of North Carolina Constitutional Convention]

Signed as president of the convention, countersigned by John Hunt as secretary. States that the North Carolina Convention decided to neither ratify nor reject the new Constitution, and resolved to impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States if tariffs were imposed on North Carolina. At a second convention on 21 November 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution.

GLC04839

1790/03/06

Sherman, Roger, 1721-1793

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Huntington

Reports on legislative debates and progress in a number of areas, including using western lands to lower the national debt, honoring government securities, Alexander Hamilton's report on Public Credit, and the relationships between state and federal authorities. Comments on the worry of smaller states that assumption of debt by the federal government would erode state power. Adamantly supports protecting states' rights. Sherman was then a congressman from Connecticut. Huntington was the Connecticut governor. Docketed by Huntington.

GLC04841

1791/06/27

Bassett, Richard, fl. 1791-1792

Document signed

Title: Giving power of attorney to Edward Tilghman (c/s Clement Biddle)

GLC04842.02

1787/12/15

Blount, William, 1749-1800

Letter signed

Title: to Gen. Assembly of NC re: negotiations over Miss. Navigation, threats to Union

Discusses negotiations over Mississippi navigation, threats to the national Union, finance, convention (for ratifying the Constitution)

GLC04842.03

1787/03/12

Butler, Pierce, 1744-1822

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Allibane? re: business, announcing election to Constitutional Convention

GLC04842.04

1804/06/30

Few, William, 1748-1828

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Telfair re: condemning the import of Black enslaved people into Georgia

Written as former delegate from Georgia to the current Governor, condemning the importation of Black enslaved people into Georgia as a ploy to increase the state's congressional representation. Portion of embossed tax stamp on bottom of paper. Few writes in part: "Is there one person of understanding & reflection among you who will not admit that every confederation of justice, humanity, and safety, forbids that any more Negroes should be brought into your state, and yet it is well known that the avarice of your citizens, and the rage for acquiring that property has broke through all…

GLC04842.05

1788/03/19

Fitzsimons, Thomas, 1741-1811

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Irvine re: finance, opposition to Constitution, Kentucky statehood

GLC04842.06

1797/02/06

King, Rufus, 1755-1827

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Timothy Pickering] re: expulsion of American minister Pinckney from France

Written as American ambassador to Great Britain, to the Sec. of State.

GLC04842.09

1807/11/06

Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David Parish re: Embargo Act: "Our President... seems to be out of his wits"

Morris writes of Jefferson: "Our President (to judge his Message) seems to be out of his wits. If I am not much mistaken, this session will, according to the vulgar phrase do him over."

GLC04842.11

1788/08/10

Pinckney, Charles, 1757-1824

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mathew Carey re: proposal to give federal government veto over state laws

Asking for a bound copy of Carey's "Museum" and saying that he cannot provide a copy of his "System" [CP's draft proposals for a constitution] because one copy was laid before the Convention and the other is on-loan. He writes that the proposals were adopted [30+ parts] with the exception of a Federal veto on state laws.

GLC04842.12

1788/05/30

Williamson, Hugh, fl. 1783-1788

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Johnstone re: reporting on absent delegate, citing strength of Union

Williamson mentions a French pirate as an example of the states coming together in a Federal Union. Written as a delegate to the governor of North Carolina.

GLC04842.13

1802/04/20

Bedford, Gunning, 1747-1812

Autograph document signed

Title: Pay order for $15 on Bank of United States

GLC04842.14

1785/10/27

Blair, John, fl. 1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: Promissory note between Isaac Cooper & John Bagley signed as witness

GLC04842.15

1788/04/08

Brearly, David, 1745-1790

Autograph document signed

Title: Land lease from Brearley to Benjamin Smith, also signed by his wife Elizabeth

GLC04842.16

1789/03/12

Broom, Jacob, 1752-1810

Letter signed

Title: to Eleazer McComb re: adjustments to state taxes, as commitee member

Signed as member of a committee to adjust taxes, with Geo. Craghead, Jn James, Wm McMechan and John Thompson. 1 black and white engraving of right profile of Jacob Broom included.

GLC04842.17

1787/08/31

Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gen. Elias Dayton (his father) re: business, a military trial

Written to his father, Elias Dayton, who had declined election to the Constitutional Convention in favor of his son, because he himself was serving in Congress. Jonathan Dayton was the youngest member of the convention.

GLC04842.20

1784/05/03

Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

Manuscript document signed

Title: Pay order addressed to David Rittenhouse for Sebastian Levan

GLC04842.21

1785/12/03

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Document signed

Title: Printed pay order addressed to David Rittenhouse for Lewis Farmer (soldier)

Partly printed document directing payment to Farmer, "state Lieutenant Colonel of the 13th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line ... the sum of two shillings eight pence, being one year's interest on his depreciation certificate...."

GLC04842.22