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[U.S. Congress orders]
12 August 1788
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824
U.S. Congress orders for militia to prepare to join Federal troops in NW Territory Indian conflicts by sending 1500 men.
GLC09056
[Treaty of Fort Harmar]
9 January 1789 circa
St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818
Fair copy of original treaty by Arthur St. Clair and several chiefs of the Six Nations.
GLC09057
Narrative of the Manner in which the Campaign Against the Indians...
12 March 1812
"Narrative of the Manner in which the Campaign Against the Indians [1791] was Conducted, under the Command of Major General St. Clair, together with his observations...and the Reports of the Committees appointed to Inquire into the Causes of the...
GLC09058
[Treaty of Ft. Stanwix]
February 10, 1784
Extract from congressional minutes: "... General Schuyler...is hereby directed to expedite the return of the deputation from the late hostile tribes of Indians...that due notice shall be given them of the time and place where Congress will hold a...
GLC09059.01
Hartford Connecticut Courant, and Weekly Intelligencer NW.
30 November 1784
Covering the opening of the Treaty of Ft. Stanwix.
GLC09059.02
to paymaster Joseph Howell
March 29, 1790
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Authorizes two month's pay for two artillery companies, one infantry company, and an account of monies due to officers at West Point on 1 April 1790, stationed at St. Mary's River, Georgia.
GLC09060
to Richard Varick [Incomplete]
15 November 1775
Scott, John Morin, 1730-1784
"Every office shut up almost...All business stagnated, the City is half deserted for fear of a Bombardment - a new Congress elected - those for New York you will see by the Papers are changed for the better - all staunch Whigs now - How it is with...
GLC09061
The Crisis, No. 1 or Thoughts on Slavery, Occasioned by the Missouri Question.
1820
Hillhouse, William, fl. 1820
Printed by A. H. Maltby & Co, New Haven, Connecticut. Denounces slavery and its introduction into the new Territories: "The extension of slavery to the new and unculivated regions of the west...is a great calamity...It is a blot on the human...
GLC09062
to Sharpe Delaney
2 October 1789
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
"As in the first establishment of Revenue systems, imperfections and inconveniencies will naturally present themselves in practice, which could not have been foreseen in their formation; it is of the greatest moment, that the best information should...
GLC09063
[Orders to affix the seal to a letter for Peru's ad-interim President Pedro Diez Canseco]
13 May 1863
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Order to the Secretary of State. The letter offered condolences for deceased President San Roman and hopes for continued wisdom and success, guided by "the Supreme Ruler of the Universe."
GLC09064
[Document recognizing Francisco Vicente Spinoza de Camara Perestrello as Consul in Massachusetts and New Hampshire]
21 November 1822
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
Also signed by John Quincy Adams. Francisco Vicente Spinoza de Camara Perestrello represented the King of Portugal and Brazil.
GLC09065
[Convention Army]
circa 17 November 1777
Davis, Amasa, 1744-1825
Also signed by Col. Joshua Davis, Thomas Crane, Will Harris, and Fitch Pool. "Amasa Davis is appointed one of the Commissary's for Supplying the Troops under Genl. Burgoyne (now Prisoners in this State), with the Various sorts of Provisions brought...
GLC09066
[US Naval Academy draft of minutes]
before 1845
Pinkney, Somerville
"A meeting of the Citizens of Annapolis...for...considering the propriety, of offering a memorial to Congress for the establishment of a Navy yard at this place...Resolved...to take immediate steps to have the harbour of this City, the creeks around...
GLC09067
[Appointment of assessors for the 47th assessment district]
24 September 1798
Heron, William, fl. 1798
Appoints "Samson Howe, Thaddeus Learned, Jonathan Nichols, Zadoc Spalding & Hobart Torrey...Assessors for the 47th Assessment District comprising the Towns of Killingley & Thomson..." Signed by five Connecticut State Commissioners: Heron[a...
GLC09068
[Quaker Manumission]
January 28, 1777
Yeardley, Sarah, fl. 1777
"I Sarah Yeardley Widow of the township of Lower Makefield in Bucks County & Province of Pennsylvania do hereby set free from bondage, my Negroe Man Named Daniel Cuffy aged about fifty five years..." Partially printed with manuscript accomplishment.
GLC09071
[Pay document]
1 July 1777
Heath, William, 1737-1814
"Abstract of One Months pay of sundry Artificers employed in the Continental Service from the first of June to the last 1777." Showing amounts owed Captain Thomas Urann [a Boston Tea Party participant] and eleven of his men.
GLC09072
to A.W. Reese
26 July 1898
Schley, Winfield Scott, 1839-1911
Days after triumphing over the Spanish Squadron at Santiago, Cuba, and sent from flagship Brooklyn: "Thank you for your note of congratulation. I am afraid I am being praised more than I deserve for a simple act of duty which my whole training in...
GLC09073
to Ms Parker
9 April 1773
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Responds to a complaint from the daughter of his recently deceased business partner, James Parker: "Desiring nothing but what is just, shall be more pleas'd to find little due to me than much...I think it contributes to the Duration of Friendship...
GLC09074
to unidentified [Phil. Payne]
March 31, 1799
Henry, P., fl. 1799
"...[John Nelson] wanted to sell his Land very much, & that just now he was much pressed for money & would sell a good Bargain. He says a fine plantation or two, of the best low Grounds may be had...I would be glad to get my Lynchburgh Tobaco sent...
GLC09075
to Samuel Sitgreaves
16 April 1800
Fitzsimons, Thomas, 1741-1811
"...We are here all Anxiety to know, what Effect the Mission to France will have on the British Court; if they shall take umbrage at it & Increase their depredations upon our Commerce, the inevitable Consequence must be a total loss of all Interest...
GLC09078
Dixie Editors Fear Dry Force Bill Will Lead to Negro Controls in South; Destroys States Rights
circa 1918
Prohibition broadside railing against the prospect of prohibition, because it opens the door to northern infringement upon southern whites. "[The fourteenth] amendment gives to Congress the power to force upon the South a vote for the negro - and a...
GLC09079
Pennsylvania Evening Post
7 May 1776
Relaying news from a Dublin paper of a British fleet set to sail in April: "there will be five debarkations...one at Quebec, one at New-York, one in New-England, and two to the southward." Letter from Cork, describing Col. Ethan Allen and his fellow...
GLC09080
to Edward Kavanagh
4 January 1832
Smith, Samuel E., 1788-1860
As Governor of Maine, to future Governor, about the latter's determination of the Canadian border the previous August, by survey on foot. Also mentions occupancy of new Capitol Building and redrafting of Maine's militia laws.
GLC09081
Carte-de-visite of SojournerTruth
1864
Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883
Caption on mount reads :"I sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth." Copyright stamp on verso
GLC09082
The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 1, no. 7.
July 1835
American Anti-Slavery Society
Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, printed by S. W. Benedict & Co. With images of a schoolhouse and slave children being whipped, asks, "Which of these systems of education shall we hand down to posterity."
GLC09083
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