1783/05/20

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Gov. Benjamin Harrison] re: provisional peace treaty, Carleton & Washington

Signed by Madison as "James Madison Jr." Countersigned by Theodorick Bland and John Francis Mercer. Written to Governor Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, as state delegate (per Madison Papers and Library of Congress, Papers of the Members of Congress project). Madison makes mentions the controversy with slaves ("Negroes") fleeing with British loyalists to Canada. Carlton had argued that owner claims could be made through normal diplomatic channels once a peace treaty had been finalized.

GLC02321

February 9, 1777

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to James Clinton

Ordering Clinton to go to Albany to "assist in the command of the Northern department" under General Schuyler. Warns Clinton that there is not time for delay. "General McDougal will take the direction of matters in the Highlands when you are gone."

GLC02366

1777/05/14

Smith, Richard, fl. 1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Livingston re: declining attendance "at the present session"

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.38

1781/01/20

United States. Continental Congress.

Autograph document signed

Title: Extract from minutes urging Governor of Delaware to send troops to Trenton

Written as Secretary of Congress. [Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.39

1776/01/03

Tilghman, Matthew, 1718-1790

Document signed

Title: Military commission

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.40

1775/08/04

Trumbull, Joseph, fl. 1775

Autograph letter signed

Title: Payment for and storage of molasses

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.41

1775/05/15

Fitch, John, 1743-1798

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for Robert Stocton for payment in full]

Receipt to Robert Stocton [Stockton?] for payment in full. Accompanied by incomplete letter of the same date, apparently in a different hand, stating "The enclosed letter came to my Hands of," with monetary calculations. John Fitch designed and successfully launched the first steamboat in 1787. He received a U.S. patent for his steamboat in 1791. In the 1770's, Fitch made a living in Trenton as a silversmith, gunsmith, and provisioner of Continental Army troops.

GLC02480.07

1781/06/16

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elbridge Gerry re: neutrality, French alliance, and his anti-British feelings

Written as U.S. Minister to the Netherlands. The first part recommends the bearer, Mr. Le Roy, desirous of commercial connections in America. Adams deprecates the idea of armed neutrality and concludes: "you must not entertain the most distant Idea of Peace while there is one British Soldier alive and at Liberty in America."

GLC02292

1783/03 ca.

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript

Title: Address to officers with General orders 3/11/1783 & Newburgh address

A contemporary transcript written by an unknown soldier on the leaves of a stitched pamphlet. Contains the anonymous "Address to the Officers of the Army" calling the army's general officers to a meeting (a mutinous situation) (pp. 1-12), Washington's orders of 11 March 1783 calling officers to a meeting of his own (15-24; including Washington's letter to the president of Congress after the meeting), the officer's meeting on 15 March, with Washington's address (25-41), and concluding with the officers' resolves (41-47). Another manuscript relating to the incidents at Newburgh is in the Henry…

GLC02624

1776/07/03

Danielson, Timothy, fl. 1776

Letter signed

Title: to John Hancock re: supporting a declaration of Independence

GLC02635

1779/11/09

Hunter, Samuel, ?-1784

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Reed

Outlines the best positions for troops to defend the area, reports on Indian attack and scalping, and fears another attack.

GLC02636

1774/10/20

Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Broadside

Title: Extracts from votes and proceedings of Continental Congress

Full title: "The following extracts from the votes and prceedings of the American Continental Congress, we are induced to publish early purely to ease the impatience of our readers. Association & C." Printed by T[homas] R. J. Fleet.

GLC02668

1774/09/17

Suffolk Resolves, fl. 1774

Broadsheet

Title: The Suffolk resolves: Proceedings of the ...

Printed by John Holt. The first printing in New York of the Suffolk Resolves. Evans 13701

GLC02438

1774 ca.

Broadside

Title: To the inhabitants... re: calling for appointing delegates from NY to Congress

Printed by John Holt. Evans 13660. only 2 copies recorded

GLC02439

1774/07/05

Broadside

Title: Advertisement re: NY delegate nominations for first Continental Congress

GLC02440

1775/09/21-1775/11/15

Morgan, George, 1743-1810

Document signed

Title: Minutes and Agreements of the Indiana Company

A "true copy of the minutes" made by George Morgan re: various minutes and agreements pertaining to the Indiana company, which speculated in land along the Ohio river. In an 1768 treaty Indians had ceded a large tract of land to the "unfortunate traders" for damages they had caused them in 1763. The Indiana company sought to acquire and sell this land. Includes minutes from a September 21-23 meeting in Pittsburg assuring the legality of the purchases and establishing rules for their oversight and sale. Drafts of a pair of letters written during the meeting, one the "The Public," are…

GLC02441

1782/09/17

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Consents to stopping work on the magazine and instead having the men work on the barracks. "I shall inform the Secretary at War, who seemed to have the completion of the Magazine much at heart, of the reasons which have hindered us from proceeding." Approves Knox's nomination of "Commissaries &c of Military stores." Written at "Head Quarters." Docketed in Knox's hand.

GLC02437.09380

February 28, 1771

Adams, Edward, fl. 1765-1772

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account with Thomas Flucker]

Financial account between Edward Adams and Thomas Flucker.

GLC02437.09068

February 18, 1781

Craig, Isaac, 1742-1826

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return of ordnance stores at Fort Pitt and Fort McIntosh]

Signed by I. Craig, Captain of Artillery to Henry Knox, Brigadier General of Artillery. Lists stores of shells, powder, cartridges, muskets, rifles, swords, etc. Note on verso of last fold states the return differs from the last due to a fire that broke out in the barracks making it necessary to remove the ordnance stores. States that "in the confusion some small loss was sustained." Fort McIntosh became the town of Beaver, Pennsylvania. Fort McIntosh was in Ohio. Document is one long narrow sheet folded six times.

GLC02437.10019

February 28, 1781

Van Rensselaer, Philip, 1747-1798

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance at Albany, New York. Items listed by type, and current condition.

GLC02437.10673

1780/10/05

United States. Continental Congress.

Manuscript document signed

Title: Extract from minutes of Congress: concord with Russia on neutral shipping

Resolutions towards a commercial and diplomatic accord between the two nations.

GLC01781

1781/03/17

Pendleton, Nathaniel, 1756-1821

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Col. William Washington re: wanting lists of casualties

Recipient's first name from pencil note. Written as Aide-de-camp.

GLC02470.29

1775/04/17

Mason, George, Sr., 1725-1792

Autograph document signed

Title: Records of Money Collected & "sum Reimbursed by Col Washington"

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.29

1773/12/08

Brearly, David, 1745-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jonathan O. Sargent re: regarding a trial in freehold

GLC02470.03

1773/03/04

Blair, John, fl. 1773

Document signed

Title: re: three pound note (c/s Danbridge)

GLC02470.04