1783-1815

Document

Title: [Suggesting creation of more accurate maps for Waldo patent waterways]

Discusses the need for accurate maps of the waterways within the Waldo patent to accurately assess the patent.

GLC02437.09306

circa 1784-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Document

Title: [Description of the total acreage of the Waldo patent]

Lists the total acreage of the Waldo patent, including all deductions and claims on the lands.

GLC02437.09307

circa August 1798

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Regarding land disputes on Waldo patent] [Fragment]

Document regarding the issues of land ownership between Henry Knox and settlers on the Waldo patent. Written on the verso of a printed land sale deed that was left blank. Both the beginning and end of the document are missing. Written some time after August 1798.

GLC02437.10651

December 16, 1863

Wheeler, Lysander, 1837-1917

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his parents, [brother-in-law], and sister

Reports that Hiram Wright has been taken to the hospital with small pox and expects that he will come down with it pretty badly. Writes that he has been appointed cook for the week and discusses what he's had for dinner. He explains that the men in his tent take turns cooking; each one is given a one week appointment. Writes that rumors of [William H.] Wyman (of Co. B, Ill. 105th) were mistaken. Updates his brother-in-law, Darius, on the conditions of some of the soldiers they know mutually. Complains about the intensity of the rain and how much noise it makes. Writes that there is…

GLC07460.065

December 24, 1863

Wheeler, Lysander, 1837-1917

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his parents, [brother-in-law], and sister

Thanks his family for the gift of "goodies" he received for Christmas and hopes that he will be able to share Christmas with them after the war is over. Writes that he is very proud of his nephew Welly (Wellington Spohn) and expects to receive a letter from him in his own handwriting. Recollects that a year ago his brother-in-law, Darius left the Tunnel. Wheeler writes that he was afraid for Darius but would not have told him so at the time. Writes that he doesn't expect much of a draft in Illinois as the bounty will tempt many to enlist. Reports that Hiram Wright and Perry of company F…

GLC07460.066

April 28, 1942 - January 19, 1945

Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945

Header Record

Title: [Collection of WWII letters of Sidney Diamond to Estelle Spero] [decimalized]

Sidney Diamond (1922-1945) enlisted in mid-April 1942, interrupting the chemical engineering degree that he was undertaking at City College. Diamond was sent to the South Pacific in June 1943, where he served as First Lieutenant to the Eighty-Second Chemical Battalion. On January 29th 1945, Diamond was killed by a Japanese knee mortar while acting as a forward observer during an assault on Fort Stotsenburg, north of Manila. Throughout his time in service, Sidney maintained an epistolary correspondence with Estelle Spero, his sweetheart and subsequently fiancée, the letters from which she…

GLC09120

20 August 1793

Anderson, John, 1726-1796

Manuscript document signed

Title: to George Washington

Same as GLC02437.10273. Titles the document "The Memorial." Writes discussing inventions. States "[t]hat he has invented a Bronze Guns Metal, which has the advantage of Common Iron Guns, and of Common Brass Guns, without their imperfections. That he has invented a Carriage for Guns; by which the recoil of the Gun is distroyed, without giving motion to the Carriage." Believes that these inventions will be very useful and writes that "because they were brought to the test of experiment by French Armies under the Generals [Marquis de] La Fayette, [Comte de] Rochambeau, [Charles François Du…

GLC02437.10274

20 August 1793

Anderson, John, 1726-1796

Manuscript document signed

Title: A short account of the Field Pieces presented by Mr Anderson Professor of Natural Philosophy, to Mr La Fayette, and the first National Assembly of France; together with two Extracts referred to in the Memorial to General Washington dated August 20th 1793

Originally included as an insert for a memorial to George Washington (GLC02437.10273 & .10274) advertising Anderson's inventions to improve field artillery. Writes he separated the French artillery into three classes, heavy, light, and the Volantes, "or those without wheels ... " States that "none of them [were] above Eight Pounders, and none under Four; because, in the opinion of the inventor, One, Two, and Three Pounders are unfit for throwing Grape Shot, and for wining field defence." Details Anderson's presentation of his Volantes. Describes military tactics in advancing troops,…

GLC02437.10275

2 May 1890

Lemon, George E., fl. 1890

Document signed

Title: to Nettie C. Maitland

Legal document sent to Nettie C. Maitland from George Lemon's law offices in Washington D.C. Refers to her pension claim as a surviving minor of soldier Samuel Hill.

GLC03523.10.191

30 October 1798

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to Benjamin Lincoln

Copy of GLC 2437.07183. Informs Lincoln that he has sold a brig.

GLC02437.07184

6 November 1798

Flucker, Francis, fl. 1796-1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Daniel Russell]

Expresses his wish to keep away from Boston and possibly go into the army or navy. Barring those options, he would like to go to the "East Indies in some office - that I may be able to support myself with ..." Noted as written at "New Port," possibly Newport, Rhode Island. Previously inferred as addressed to Daniel Russell, written in red.

GLC02437.07185

16 November 1798

Flucker, Francis, fl. 1796-1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Daniel Russell

Asks Russell to help persuade his uncle to allow him to enter the army immediately because he really does not want to return to Boston. Goes on to describe his present situation, which he is enjoying. Noted as written in "New Port," which is possibly Newport, Rhode Island.

GLC02437.07191

8 December 1798

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Apparently a bled-through copy of GLC02437.07203. Knox acknowledges that he "received your note respecting Francis Flucker and the explanations of his conduct by McEllery." Knox believes that Francis must change his behavior sincerely, but as for now he had "no moral sense: wrong and right are the same to him." He has run away from school, and until he gets his act together, Knox insists that Knox is not "responsible either for his conduct or expences."

GLC02437.07204

15 December 1798

Jackson, William, 1759-1828

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Jackson requests that Knox attest that Jackson in the winter of 1792-1793 "went to New York at the joint instance of Mr. Bingham and yourself and negociated the transfer of Mr. Duer's right to preemtion of said lands." The lands were those purchased in Maine. Jackson then "accompanied Mr. Bringham to Boston and assisted him to transact the business of the said concern with the Committee of the Commonwealth, it was not your meaning that those service were to be compensated by an allowance of the residuary profits on the proportion of One hundred thousand acres of said lands."

GLC02437.07207

December 1, 1798

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Estimate of probable expenses at St George]

List of expenses from "1 Decr 97 to 1 Decr 98" at the "winter establishment at Montpelier." The list includes "the Gleason family" among the expenses as well as the staff and the cost of the mills.

GLC02437.07217

1798

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to unknown

[Knox] discusses work to be done in his cellar.

GLC02437.07218

1798

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

This excerpt is probably a continuation of the GLC02437.07219. Knox thanks his reader for his "zeal for my interests both at Newport and Boston," and assures him he shall receive due credit. Knox also expresses appreciation at the support of the [Secretary of War].

GLC02437.07220

2 March 1799

Manuscript document

Title: [Agreement about a township mortgage]

Mortgage agreement with General Knox "and the whole of Township No. 2 in the First Range North of the Waldo Patent and of 7600 acres adjoining to the aforesaid Township, such part of it lying in Hamden..." On the docket, Knox notes "Mr. Dane's responsible to me that he shall obtain a paper being obligation from Thorndike and Pickman-that upon my paying them a sum not less than 7500 Dollars they shall release a proportional part of the mortgaged Lands."

GLC02437.07239

3 March 1799

Morton, Briant, fl. 1799

Manuscript document

Title: Deed

Deed of land sale from Bryant Morton, Jr. to Edward Payson.

GLC02437.07240

2 May 1799

Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Lincoln

James and Thomas Perkins send Lincoln the "Quantity Cooks accounts as requested." They also include the amount of balances Lincoln owes on wine and rum.

GLC02437.07262

4 May 1799

Pratt, Daniel, fl. 1799

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Pratt agrees to "serve Henry Knox at St. Georges River." Knox will pay for Pratt's passage back and forth between St. Georges River and Boston.

GLC02437.07264

19 May 1799

Dunlap, John, 1738-1824

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Cosigned by Benjamin Jones Porter and Charles Coffin. The men thank Knox for being "one of the principle patrons" of Bowdoin College and asks him to donate lime to help with a foundation of a new building (the college's first). Docketed as a duplicate of the original (GLC02437.07267).

GLC02437.07268

6 July 1799

Talbot, Silas, 1751-1813

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Talbot tells Knox that he has written President Adams to say he has returned his commission and expects to leave the Frigate Constitution. He has therefore antedated the certificate (probably Henry Jackson Knox Jr's appointment) which he evidently encloses. See GLC02437.07278 and GLC02437.07279 for related items.

GLC02437.07282

26 July 1799

Malcom, James, fl. 1794-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Plan of land]

"This Plan of Land lying Warren, on the Westerly Side of St. Georges River above the great falls (so called) surveyed for Mr. Robert Baggs contains 110 acres and 67 pearches." Plan was drawn by James Malcom.

GLC02437.07289

25 November 1799

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Agreement]

Agreement "respecting an offer made of a deed of 25,000 acres of land on HK's paying 50,000 dollars...agreement with James Swan in 1795."

GLC02437.07330