1778/06/17

United States. Continental Congress.

Autograph document signed

Title: Extract from minutes of Congress to suppress dangerous correspondence

GLC04079

[1778/10]

Rhode Island. Acts

Broadside

Title: An Act assessing and apportioning a rate of tax...[R.I. tax for Gloucester]

Apparently an only known copy. Note on verso indicates that the copy is for the treasurer of Gloucester. References: Alden 751.

GLC04290

1780/11/29

Massachusetts

Broadside

Title: Resolution of Massachusetts Legislature re: militia officers, quota for army, &c

Printed document (or broadside?) subscribed in type by John Hancock. Establishes a quota for each town to supply the Continental Army. Printed by Edes & Sons.

GLC04292

1779/06/17

Broadside

Title: Copy of the proceedings of... Boston, June 17, 1779 [price controls]

Resolution in support of price regulation and the necessity of local committees of correspondence to enforce the regulations. Also resolving that those who refused to accept Continental currency be considered enemies. Printed by Benjamin Edes & Co.

GLC04293

1778/04/13

Faden, William, fl. 1750-1836

Map

Title: Battle of Brandywine...rebels were defeated, September 11th, 1777...

Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 126; British Library 123; Clemonts catalog 14, Snyder fig. 185.

GLC04313

1776/06/28

Faden, William, fl. 1750-1836

Map

Title: A Plan of the Attack on Fort Sulivan [Sullivan]... 28th of June 1776

Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 64.

GLC04317

1775/06/26

Broadside

Title: King's Troops... gained... Compleat Victory [British perspective of Bunker Hill]

Bunker Hill.

GLC04238

1780/09/06

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript document signed

Title: Pass for Elizabeth De Lancey, Ann De Lancey, & Henry Izard [B. Arnold related]

GLC04010

1780/06/21

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to unknown re: gathering powder & lead for expedition against Indians

The document has water damage with losses to the text at center left, and with two small losses in the closing.

GLC04018

1773/05/12

Franklin, William, 1731-1813

Manuscript document signed

Title: [License for Gouverneur Morris to practice law in New Jersey]

Countersigned by Charles Pettit.

GLC04166

1776/10/19

Faden, William, fl. 1750-1836

Map

Title: A Plan of New York island, with part of Long Island... [second issue]

Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 107. Second issue dated a month later than GLC 3533 (first issue). This map shows British control of Manhattan.

GLC04177

1764/07/06

Leake, Robert, fl. 1764

Manuscript document signed

Title: Provisions for English troops during French and Indian War

c/s Robert Calander. An agreement to supply English troops, under the command of General Gage stationed in North America, with provisions including flour, oxen and sheep for Fort Loudon (per doxket) during the war.

GLC06901

1777/07/15

Trumbull, Jonathon, fl. 1777

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ezekiel Williams re: the exchange of prisoners taken on Long Island

Address leaf is damaged. Docketed on back of letter.

GLC06902

1780/05/02

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jonathan Hudson & Co. re: the purchase of materials for the war effort

GLC06903

1778/11/10

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jonathan Hudson re: his financial situation

"[I] perceive you determine to make hay while the sun shines... I only caution you to keep fairly in view the preservation of punctuality in payments, well knowing that this produces more lasting advantages, than even the possession of wealth with strained credit." With postscript on p. 3.

GLC06904

1777/08/18

Whipple, William, 1730-1785

Autograph letter

Title: to James Lovell re: dispatches from France, conduct of Northern army in Vermont

Draft, unsigned, with slash through the letter. Noted at bottom "but this is not a true Copy."

GLC06905

1782/09/30

De Segond, Ascher, fl. 1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lachlan McIntosh re: French officer's request for American army commission

Loss on p. 3 affecting closing.

GLC06909

1780/01/10

Duportail, Louis L., fl. 1780

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nathanael Greene re: plans for a new camp near Morristown

Docketed.

GLC06910

[1780/01/15]

Duportail, Louis L., fl. 1780

Letter

Title: to Nathanael Greene re: strategies for the defense of the camp near Morristown

Fragment? Possibly a draft. Docketed on p. 2.

GLC06911

1782/01

Manuscript document

Title: List... of the French Army in America

The list provides the order, rank and pay scales of French officers and most likely belonged to Nathanael Greene. Docketed. (Slight losses to text at center left, both pages. Edges losses and water staining.)

GLC06912

1776 ca.

Habermann, Francois X., 1721-1796

Print

Title: La Destruction de la Statue Royale a Nouvelle Yorck [New York]

New York Sons of Liberty destroying a statue of King George III. Highly imaginative scene with late Baroque buildings more characteristic of Germany or Austria or perhaps Holland. Hand-colored. Background shows a full-length statue (it was equestrian) and many turbaned slaves. (Slaves were, in fact, involved in pulling down the statue.) Plate mark "Aaaa no. 2" at bottom. Part of a series of Vues d'Optique printed at Augsburg; other prints in the series include Landing of the British troops (GLC 5860) and fire in New York (GLC 7754). Fowble, Two Centuries, 172.

GLC06952

[1776/02/02]

Broadside

Title: Supplement to the Pennsylvania Ledger no. 54

The supplement concerns the attack by British fleet near Newport, RI. Reports from Providence and Newport. The Ledger was a British Tory newspaper, only printed during the occupation of Philadelphia.

GLC06954

1778/07/03

Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795

Autograph document signed

Title: Copy in Bartlett's hand of Meshech Weare letter to Bartlett & John Wentworth

Letter discusses Committee of Safety's request to Continental Congress for grant due to lack of funds in the New Hampshire Treasury. Signed by Bartlett in address.

GLC06970

1779/11/25

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

Autograph letter

Title: to Edward Thurlow re: directions to give Hillsborough seals of Sec. of State

Discusses importance of mollifying Lord North to continue the war in America.

GLC07003

1778/06/22

Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Col. Henry Jackson re: British troops marching to Philadelphia

Arnold, who now commanded in Philadelphia, orders Jackson to harass the British who had just evacuated the city (18 June) and were marching across New Jersey. "You will march with the Troops under your command at three O'Clock tomorrow morning and follow the route of the Enemy as nearly as you can with Conveniency, you will in Conjunction with any Continental Troops or Militia Attack the rear of the enemy and endeavor to harass them by all means in your power...." Docketed by recipient "My Marching Orders from Philadelphia." Jackson commanded a regiment (later designated the 16th…

GLC07122