1776, 1795

Header Record

Title: [Spies and Traitors Collection] Decimalized

GLC08389

1780/07/02

Hall & Sellers

Printed document signed

Title: [Four dollar bond issued by Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War]

Printed by Hall & Sellers and signed by Metcalf Bowler. Due to mature on 31 December 1786; set at a five percent interest rate. Marked number 667.

GLC02503.03.02

1779 - 1780 circa

Lovett, John, 1743-1792

Manuscript

Title: [Pilgrim prize receipt]

Lists men receiving prize money from the privateer vessel, the Pilgrim. Not dated, circa date is inferred from other receipts. Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. He served as the agent for the Pilgrim's prizes.

GLC01450.006.17

1780 circa

Lovett, John, 1743-1792

Manuscript

Title: [The Pilgrim's Prizes]

Lists five ships captured by the Pilgrim, a privateer vessel, the dates captured, their route, and the distribution of prizes from the ships. Mentions the brig Hope, Dutch Snow, brig Margaret, a Spanish ship the Valencio Anno, and the brig William. Document is not signed but is in a collection of receipts of the Lovett family. John Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. He served as the agent for the Pilgrim's prizes.

GLC01450.006.21

Lovett, John, 1743-1792

Manuscript

Title: [Captain Nicholas Thorndike's account with John Lovett]

Details account with Thorndike for goods and monies related to various privateer vessels. Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts.

GLC01450.006.33

1775 circa

Seymour, Thomas, 1735-1829

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certification of service for Zephaniah Briggs]

Certifies that Briggs served in Captain Benjamin Lee's company in 1758 as a private soldier.

GLC01450.131.02

Header Record

Title: Collection of two items related to Barzilla Smith, a privateer [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC01450.014

February 28, 1780

Neufville, John de, fl. 1779-1789

Manuscript document signed

Title: Receipt

Receipt of William Knox's account with John de Neufville and Son in Amsterdam for £7,000.

GLC02437.08531

1766/04/26

Letter

Title: [fragment]

Written at the Manor of Livingston, in Ancram, New York.

GLC03107.03745

17[77]/08/03

Marly, John, fl. 1777

Document

Title: Drawing of dimensions for a spindle

Docketed on verso. Docket reads: "John Marly's Memorandum Augt. 3 17[77]."

GLC03107.03751

1780/11/10

Livingston, Henry, 1753-1823

Autograph document signed

Title: Settlement of account with Gideon Bushnll

GLC03107.03754

1781/03/06

Livingston, Henry, 1753-1823

Autograph document signed

Title: Grant of property to a refugee, John Campbell

Henry Livingston orders the refugee, John Campbell, to take possession of all property of the late William Seifer, as all of Seifer's heirs are with the enemy [British].

GLC03107.03755

1781/09/25

Lansing, John, 1754-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Livingston (1753-1823) re: settlement of bail bond suits

John Lansing, Jr. informs Henry of the state of a bail bond suit, and notes that he has enclosed a subpoena for a case against "Haver."

GLC03107.03756

1775/12/19

Johnson, William S., 1727-1819

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Directive to the Sheriff of New Haven County to summon Mark Leavenworth to the County Court]

Leavenworth was needed for a child support case, which is explained in detail.

GLC03940

1777/03/24

Warren, James, 1726-1808

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elbridge Gerry

Warren indicates that he has recently written "a long letter to Mr. Adams" that communicated all consequential information, so this letter is written out of friendship rather than to provide intelligence. Comments on the arrival of a French officer, who did not receive a proper welcome because of he arrived on a Sunday. Notes "Impatience for the Arrival of the ships from France destined to" Boston. Discusses concern over matters in the House regarding the army and the embargo, lamenting the venal spirit that he views as destroying patriotism during the American Revolution.…

GLC03962

1772/03/20

Pittman, Philip, fl. 1770-1772

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: his book and asking recipient to forward books from Madras India

GLC04344.02

1764/07/26

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter

Title: to [John Page?] re: corresponding, question of soul, desire for secrecy

A very early letter, one of the earliest in private hands concerning questions of metaphysics. Young Jefferson says he will protect their secrecy by not signing (or addressing) the letter.

GLC04366

1781, reprint Philadelphia 1807

Map

Title: Plan of the investment and attack of York in Virginia [from Life of Washington]

Plate IX. Shows Yorktown. Published by C. P. Wayne; engraved by Francis Shallus.

GLC04760.02

1789/05/05

Clinton, George, 1739-1812

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Huntington

The governor of New York sends to the governor of Connecticut the New York legislature's proposed amendments to the Constitution (not included). Asks that this draft of the Bill of Rights be circulated in the Connecticut legislature.

GLC04767

1776/03/23

Broadside

Title: Rejection of Olive Branch Petition by Congress; lets colonists arm vessels

The document sets regulations for arming vessels for defense and privateering. Printed by John Dunlap.

GLC04771

1781/08/28

Carmichael, William, fl. 1781

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Morris re: conditions in Europe, prospects for treaty, Jay in Spain

GLC04772.02

1774/09/05

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: Letter from the General Congress at Philadelphia, September the 5th, 1774, to the People of Great Britain.

This document is a long broadside, printed in four columns and addressed to the people of Great Britain. The broadside says: "Know then, that we consider, and do insist that we are, and ought to be, free as our fellow subjects in Britain, and that no power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." Mentions numerous rights, including trial by jury. Someone has circled misspellings (or variations?) in pencil. (Sothebys suggested that this broadside was printed in Bristol, England. Apparently unrecorded.)

GLC04774

18 July 1781

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805

Letter signed

Title: to Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette

Written by Cornwallis as commander of British forces in the South to Lafayette who commanded American troops in Virginia. Says some of the prisoners settled on for exchange have been sent to Lafayette and that the remainder will be sent on Lafayette's assurance that he will release an equal number of British prisoners and send them to James City Island where the Flag vessels will remain to rescue them. Trusts that Lafayette will keep the newly released prisoners inactive for a reasonable interval until returned British prisoners can be put back into active duty. Separate note written in…

GLC04775

1775/06/12

Gage, Thomas, 1718-1787

Broadside

Title: Proclamation of amnesty in Boston to all but Samuel Adams and John Hancock

Authorship attributed to John Burgoyne. With woodcut royal seal of George III at top. Gage writes: "In this exigency of complicated calamities, I avail myself of the last effort within the bounds of my duty, to spare the effusion; to offer, and I do hereby in his Majesty's name, offer and promise, his most gracious pardon to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only..., Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment."…

GLC04781

1781/03/09

United States in Congress Assembled. Thomson, Charles

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Nathaniel Greene re: victory at Cowpens, SC

Written as Secretary of Congress.

GLC04848