2 April 1782

Skinner, C., fl. 1782

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Permission for Samuel Barron "to come to Staeton Island"]

GLC01450.232.04

12 March 1750

Hackett, Joseph, fl. 1750

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for payment for doors]

Records partial payment received from Benjamin Storer for "two panel doers and one oueter doer." Halifax spelled "Halyfacks."

GLC01450.244.02

22 August 1757

Cornell, Benjamin, 1733-?

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Claim for payment of seventy pounds from the Colony of Rhode Island for a ten day journey to Albany, New York]

Order to fulfill Captain Cornell's request signed by First Deputy Francis Brayton on 28 December 1757. A note on the verso singed by Cornell reads: "Tho. Richardson Please to pay the Contents of the within order." Richardson was the General Treasurer for the Colony of Rhode Island.

GLC01450.244.03

July 14, 1758

Gardner, John, 1696-1770

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Thomas Richardson

Letter cosigned by Thomas Cranston and Peter Bours, who along with Gardner, were members of the Rhode Island War Committee during the French and Indian War. Gardner orders General Treasurer Thomas Richardson to pay Robert Potter fifty pounds for troop wages and billeting.

GLC01450.244.04

August 1758

Ward, Thomas, 1733-1760

Autograph document signed

Title: [Notice of a fifteen pound payment to Thomas Arnold, Immanuel Northrup, and Stephen Potter, ordered by the General Assembly of Rhode Island]

States that the payment was ordered at a meeting on 21 August 1758 and to be made from the Rhode Island General Treasury. A note on the verso singed by Northrup indicates he received five pounds on 6 December 1859. Witnessed by Ward as secretary.

GLC01450.244.05

17 June 1755

Fitch, Thomas, 1700-1774

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Military instruction for Major General William Johnson during the French and Indian War]

Gives Johnson instructions for administering "the Defence and Protection of his Majesty's Territories against the French at Crown Point...and for removing Encroachments already made there..."

GLC01450.250.01

1763-1783

Engraving

Title: [Engraving of General Jeffery Amherst]

Accompanied Amherst letter from the French and Indian War (see GLC01450.277.01).

GLC01450.277.02

circa 1709

Header Record

Title: 18th Century Documents [Decimalized .01- .04]

Two manuscript documents signed, 1709; one autograph document signed, 1796; one autograph document (an obituary). Accompanied by collateral book and research.

GLC01450.612

March 8, 1749

Pepperrell, William, 1696-1759

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Coade

Requesting payment of a bill. Letter written at Spring Garden.

GLC01541.04.01

circa 1945

Tojo, Hideki, 1884-1948

Header Record

Title: Collection of two items: 10 Yen note signed in Kanji (Japanese) and Roman and a pamphlet in Japanese [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC01684

circa 1945

Document signed

Title: [Pamphlet in Japanese]

GLC01684.02

circa 1865

Header Record

Title: Document signed by Andrew Johnson, Indian Peace Medal, engraving of Johnson, and a lithograph of an Ioway Chief [Decimalized .01-.04]

GLC01993

circa 1865

Smith, H.W., fl. 1865

Engraving

Title: [Hand-colored engraving of President Andrew Johnson]

GLC01993.03

1842-1870

D. Rice & A.N. Hart (Philadelphia, Penn.), fl. 1854

Print

Title: [Lithograph of Wat-Che-Mon-Ne, Ioway Chief]

Published by Rice & Hart, printed and colored by Bowen. From The History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, and published between 1842 and 1870.

GLC01993.04

6 January 1829

Clark, William, 1770-1838

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt from the United States Indian Department]

Receipt from the Indian Department to Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, for rental of offices between 1822 and 1828. Signed twice by Clark.

GLC02475.04.01

1828-1829

Clark, William, 1770-1838

Autograph note signed

Title: [Note signed by William Clark]

Clark, explorer and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, refers to a unspecified claim that "should be allowed by the government." States that the claim is supported by Colonel McKenney (possibly Thomas McKenney, the first head of the War Department) and Peter Buell Porter, the Secretary of War.

GLC02475.04.02

circa 1850

Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861

Document signed

Title: [Stephen Douglas' representation of Kimball in Tillsen & Pitkin v. Kimball]

Legal document in case of Robert Tillsen and Seth Pitkin versus Edward Kimball regarding a mortgage foreclosure. Douglas, a lawyer and Senator from Illinois, states that the plaintiffs are to receive a sum of $4,790.

GLC03142.01

circa 1850

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

Engraving

Title: [Engraving of Stephen Arnold Douglas]

Published by R.R. Landon, Chicago, Illinois. Engraving of Stephen A. Douglas, a lawyer and Senator from Illinois.

GLC03142.02

January 1939

Header Record

Title: Collection of three items related to Franklin D. Roosevelt [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC03181

January 16, 1939

Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940

Typed letter

Title: to Franklin D. Roosevelt

Copy of a letter written to Roosevelt thanking him for his speech he sent her (see GLC03181.01,.02) and stating that she has put it in her treasure box. Gives her love to him and his wife, Eleanor.

GLC03181.03

25 November 1838

Blair, James, 1819-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elizabeth Blair

Blair, a seaman aboard the United States Ship Peacock, apologizes to his sister Elizabeth for not writing sooner. Informs Elizabeth that Navy orders prevent him from telling her details about his location, but mentions the ship is close to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A seal was torn from this document, causing text loss.

GLC03209.27.01

3 July 1839

Blair, James, 1819-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elizabeth Blair

Writes to his sister from the United States Ship Peacock. States that Captain William L. Hudson of the Peacock supported him in an affaire d'honour. Informs Elizabeth that women he met at a Ball in Valparaiso, Chile perceive Americans as "the people who struck the first blow for Liberty in the New World." States that Captain Charles Wilkes, leader of the Peacock and other vessels on the expedition, wrote for his warrant. Requests Elizabeth to give his love to family and friends in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk, Virginia.

GLC03209.27.03

circa 8 July 1845

Woodbury, Elizabeth Williams Clapp, fl. 1843

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elizabeth Blair Lee

Woodbury, wife of Montgomery Blair, invites Lee to visit Portsmouth and updates her on the affairs of mutual friends and acquaintances. Circa date is based on a reference Woodbury made regarding Lee's 1843 marriage.

GLC03209.27.05

8 September 1845

Blair, Mary, fl. 1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elizabeth Blair Lee

Discusses family members with Lee, who was the daughter of Francis Preston Blair and the wife of Navy Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee. Signed as "Mary B." Last name assumed from references the author made to family members.

GLC03209.27.06

6 December 1857

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elizabeth Blair Lee

An unknown author discusses his or her father and children with Lee, wife of Naval Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee. The accompanying envelope is addressed to Lee in care of her father, Francis Preston Blair.

GLC03209.27.07