1763-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [List of signatures]

A piece of paper with a number of signatures, including Thomas Bird, Joseph Smith, Fredirick Stein, Jeremiah Osborn, Abiel Macomben, Joseph Huler, William Broughton, Jonah Atwater, Medad Mix, Edmund Smith, Nehemiah Higgins, and Himany Mansfield, who signed with his mark. Signatures are dated 14 January through 25 January, but without a year. A number of the men appear to have served in Lieutenant Colonel Baldwin's Connecticut Regiment during the American Revolution.

GLC02542.32.13

1763-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Revolutionary war enlistment roll]

Roll with the names of men enlisted in the army during the American Revolution. The days and months of their enlistments are given, but not the years. Each man appears to have signed his own name to the list. Names include Enos Hotchkiss, Holrook Atwater, John Lines, Thomas White, Silas Marsh, Abner Tuttle, Nathan Drummer, John Claus, Thomas Bird, Neheemiah Higgins, Jonah Atwater, Medad Mix, Abiel Macomben, and a number of others. Many of these same names are also found on GLC02542.32.04, another list of soldiers.

GLC02542.32.14

February 7, 1791 - February 11, 1791

Polinaire, Jean Baptiste, fl. 1791

Manuscript document signed

Title: The Examination of Polinaire taken the seventh day of February 1791

A summary of the testimony of Jean Baptiste Polinaire, a freemen, regarding the recent slave revolt in Dominica, in which he participated. "The Examinant...makes a voluntary Declaration of the truth of all he knows concerning the late Revolt knowing he must die knowing." Polinaire explains that the enslaved people believed that John Orde, the British Governor, was trying to help the enslaved people and free "mulattoes" of the colony, but was being prevented from doing so by the White enslavers. Thus the enslaved people organized a rebellion against them. Describes the plans of the revolt…

GLC02542.32.15

1 January 1796

Barnard, Ebenezer Jr., 1749-1827

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Land deed]

Partially printed deed confirming that Ebenezer Barnard sold a piece of land in Hartland, Connecticut to Asael and Alexander McKee for four hundred pounds. Also signed twice by Jonathan Bull, as witness and Justice of the Peace, and by Henry Bull as witness.

GLC02542.32.17

February 5, 1801 - March 7, 1801

Manuscript document

Title: [Piece of paper with two dates on it] [Fragment]

A piece of paper, that appears to be a fragment from a larger table. The only legible words are the dates 7 March 1801 and 5 February 1801.

GLC02542.32.22

21 November 1805

Van Deursen, William, 1736-1816

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Land deed]

Deed certifying sale of land from William Van Deursen to Chauncey Whittelsey for two hundred and fifty pounds.

GLC02542.32.23

25 November 1812 - 29 March 1813

Manuscript document

Title: [Military pay rolls of William Van Dueresen]

List of payment made to men serving under Captain William Van Deursen. Many of the men are also given advanced pay and some receive a premium for having enlisted in December.

GLC02542.32.24

1763-1783

Burbeck, Henry, 1754-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Van Deursen

Has been informed by Commodore Decator that "two 74s and two large frigates" may be headed in their direction, and hopes Van Deursen is prepared in the event "they should think proper to pay us a visit." H. Burbeck may be Henry Burbeck (1754-1848).

GLC02542.32.25

5 June 1814

Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798-1854

Sketch

Title: Myrtleville Island from the Strand road to []

Sketch of Myrtleville Bay and the surrounding area in County Cork, Ireland. Croker was a famous Irish folklorist.

GLC02542.32.26

7 May 1839

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Promisory note to Seth Hall for one dollar]

Promissory note to Seth Hall for one dollar. Signer may have the last name North, but it is hard to tell.

GLC02542.32.28

1763-1783

Note

Title: [Incomplete]

Fragment of a note or letter. The only legible words read "my Uncle of...Isiah Arnold Esq...Aged 83. born in...for Paul Collin...my Father James..."

GLC02542.32.29

16 June 1862

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

Autograph document signed

Title: [Note to be telegramed to Pierre G. T. Beauregard]

Reports that "It is important to secure the plantation boats on both banks of the Mississippi. Shall I have it secure so as to prevent their destruction by the enemy?"

GLC04057.01

17 June 1862

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

Autograph document signed

Title: [Note to be telegramed to Pierre G. T. Beauregard]

Informs Beauregard that "Col. Shelby reports the Enemy in considerable force at Holly Springs." While the Western front was relatively quiet at this time, Holly Springs would be the site of a major battle in September.

GLC04057.02

17 June 1862

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

Autograph document signed

Title: [Note to be telegramed to Pierre G. T. Beauregard]

Wonders whether or not he should "establish the Holly Springs repairing machinery at Newtown." While the Western front was relatively quiet at this time, Holly Springs would be the site of a major battle in September.

GLC04057.03

17 June 1862

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

Autograph document signed

Title: [Note to be telegramed to Pierre G. T. Beauregard]

Requests railroad cars to move his forces and supplies.

GLC04057.04

January 19, 1863

Maury, Dabney Herndon, 1822-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sterling Price

General Maury informs General Price he was disappointed that Price recently failed to visit Vicksburg. Reports on marching with General Lee (possibly Stephen Dill Lee). Relates that due to a railroad accident, the 35th Mississippi lost an estimated 70 men. States "I have never been on a Battle Field where the ground was so easy to learn as this about here, our positions being much elevated above those of the enemy, we could see and understand the operations far better than he." Possibly referring to Stephen Dill Lee, writes "There was nothing left for me however; Young General Lee, of…

GLC05012.01

circa 1863-1890

Hall, Charles Bryan, 1840-?

Print

Title: [Print of General Dabney Herndon Maury]

Etched by Hall. Circa dates inferred based on the dates of some of Hall's other etchings. Depicts Herndon, a Confederate General, in military uniform.

GLC05012.02

1863

Printed document

Title: [Summary of the military service of Confederate Generals John Horace Forney and Dabney Herndon Maury]

A page removed from a biographical work.

GLC05012.03

2 October 1780

Chew, Joseph, fl. 1780

Autograph note signed

Title: [Joseph Chew's discussion of a letter from Benedict Arnold]

The note, signed by Chew, explains how the accompanying letter (no longer present) was kept undercover, "This Letter was delivered as a Blank Sheet of Paper put over one or two newspapers - which by wetting with a Proper Composition made it Legible." Also describes the writer of the letter and how he has been persecuted, claiming, "... the writer was a Colo. in his Majestys Service during the War that Ended in 1763... Since which he has been thoroughly persecuted." Benedict Arnold, who served in the French and Indian War, may have been the writer Chew was referring to. The date is written…

GLC05533.02

28 August 1862

Marshall, Humphrey, 1812-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Braxton Bragg

Short on men and supplies, and requests reinforcements. Discusses his movements and explains that his lack of troops is responsible for his slow progress.

GLC06311.01

1862-1865

Engraving

Title: [Carte de visite of Confederate Genereal Humphrey Marshall]

Engraving of General Humphrey Marshall in the form of a carte de visite.

GLC06311.02

1862

Binney, Horace, 1780-1875

Pamphlet

Title: The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus under the Consitution.

Printed by C. Sherman & Son. Second edition. The first part, 58 pages in length, discusses "The right of the President of the United States, in time of rebellion, and when the public safety in his judgment requires, to arrest and detain a freeman, in temporary denial or delay of bail, trial, or discharge ... of his privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus ..." A second section, 50 pages in length, examines "a doctrine of certain writers, that the Habeas Corpus clause in the Constitution does not give power to anybody to suspend the privilege of the Writ, but is only restrictive of the…

GLC08599.01

1862

Bullitt, John Christian, 1824-1902

Pamphlet

Title: A review of Mr. Binney's pamphlet on "the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus under the Constitution."

Published by John Campbell. Bullitt seeks to examine the legal aspects of Horace Binney's argument, based on his opinion that Binney's "premises were not well taken, and that his inferences or conclusions were erroneous." Expresses hope to "present the great constitutional question involved in its true light." Cover is missing.

GLC08599.02

1862

Gross, Charles H., 1838-1902

Pamphlet

Title: A reply to Horace Binney's pamphlet on the habeas corpus.

States "The Constitution, assuming that the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall exist complete and universal, and thus authorizing it, authorizes it to be suspended on certain conditions" (page 39). Indicates that this essay was written 22 February. Cover is missing, and Gross's name is written in pencil on the title page.

GLC08599.03

1862

Jackson, Tatlow, fl. 1862-1873

Pamphlet

Title: Authorities cited antagonistic to Horace Binney's conclusions on the writ of habeas corpus.

Published by John Campbell. Jackson states "Having carefully read Mr. Horace Binney's pamphlet 'The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus under the Constitution,' and conscientiously believing the doctrine therein inculcated to be of an anti-Republican tendency, and the conclusion- 'The President being the properest and the safest depository of the power (to suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus) and being the only power which can exercise it under real and effective responsibilities to the people'- to be untrue, and not safe ... I feel it to be a duty ... to make public the result of such…

GLC08599.04