1794/04/02

Bradford, William, 1755-1795

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox re: considering constitutionality of a Pennsylvania Act

GLC04772.01

1774/09/05

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: Letter from the General Congress at Philadelphia, September the 5th, 1774, to the People of Great Britain.

This document is a long broadside, printed in four columns and addressed to the people of Great Britain. The broadside says: "Know then, that we consider, and do insist that we are, and ought to be, free as our fellow subjects in Britain, and that no power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." Mentions numerous rights, including trial by jury. Someone has circled misspellings (or variations?) in pencil. (Sothebys suggested that this broadside was printed in Bristol, England. Apparently unrecorded.)

GLC04774

1807/09/01

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Rush

With separate (disconjugate) address leaf. Also discusses Jefferson Administration as "Monarchical, anti-Republican government;" the debates in 1776; the possibility of war, and his interest in the outcome of Aaron Burr's treason trial.

GLC04879

1938/06/01

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Document signed

Title: Presidential veto of "act to incorporate Mount Olive Cemetery Co."

Presidential veto of "act to incorporate Mount Olive Cemetery Co." because it would exempt them from paying for public improvements. Originally pasted overall on an piece of light cardboard containing election ephemera for Vincent L. Palmisano. (According to conservator SD 7/96, backing cannot be removed without damage to typewritten text: returned without treatment.)

GLC04994

1864/03

Pamphlet

Title: The Public laws of Georgia passed in the extra session in March 1864

This is the "Waters" pamphlet.

GLC06736

1787/09/19

Constitutional Convention, 1787

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania packet and daily advertiser. [No. 2690 (September 19, 1787)]

First printing of the Constitution in a newspaper. This version, printed by Dunlap and Claypoole, the same who had printed the draft versions of the Constitution meant for private use by delegates at the Constitutional Convention.

GLC06688

1819/06/23

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Patrick K. Rogers re: University of Virginia opening delayed

Jefferson writes that the general opening of the University will be delayed to 1821. Dr. Cooper may open a school of philosophy, chemistry, mineralogy and law. Written in Monticello

GLC06709

1792/05/21

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to Gov. of Virginia re: transmitting acts of Congress

Acts involve land grants, protection of frontiers, militias, debt relief, duties on spirits, national defense, altering Treasury and War Departments, copper coinage, governing territories, etc.

GLC06712

1838/09/24

Heard, William J.E., 1801-1874

Autograph document signed

Title: [Appointment of administrator for the estate of the late Robert Cunningham]

Acting in his capacity as probate judge, Heard appoints Bazil G. Ijams the administrator of Cunningham's estate. Written four days before Heard was elected chief justice of Colorado County, Texas.

GLC06623.11

1781/12/24

Pickering, John, 1737-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Langdon re: Habeas Corpus, constitutional issues

"The Confederation dearly points out the right of deciding all controversies concerning the boundaries of any state... the present case shows the necessity and utility of such powers being vested in the United States and not in any one separate state lest the whole should be involved in a war by the Rashness, imprudence or prejudice of one or more states... Parliamentary Habeas Corpus backed by the military arm... I ask who is to observe the writ? the Militia? Would it not have been more eligible and regular for the Supreme Judicial Court to have issued and directed a Habeas Corpus."

GLC06542

1796/05/14

Pamphlet

Title: An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt

Printed draft act of Congress, noting revisions of the bill.

GLC06547

1794/11/14

Martin, Thomas, fl. 1794-1800

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Col. Langdon re: power of Courts, ambiguity of law

Discussing a "cursed Lusanna cause" of New Hampshire for which the Supreme Court has been requested to issue a Writ of Error. He complains: "[B]oth the [Supreme] Court & Bar could not put a just Construction of the Law, they acknowledged it to be ambiguous.... Cannot Congress explain the meaning or design of their laws." He asks "Cannot & ought not Congress to pass an Act forbidding any matters which were determined & finally settled in the State Courts prior to the Federal Constitution[?]"

GLC06548

1907/11/26

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Benjamin I. Wheeler

"Of course, advantage is taken of it to attack me, and therefore Taft... I fear that some of our capitalist friends really desire to be allowed to continue at present all the practices which were declared illegal over a year ago." Typed on the first and four page of a folded sheet of paper.

GLC06331.01

1923/11/19

McCarter, H.C., 1893-?

Printed document signed

Title: [Treasury Department Prescription Blank - National Prohibition Act]

Prescription for Ira Altman of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, for "Sp[iritus] Frumenti" (alcohol) issued by Dr. McCarter. Treasury Dept. US Internal Revenue B 38246 / Blank no. 57. Watermarked "Prohibition."

GLC06097

1857/07/25

McLean, John, 1785-1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lewis Cass

Expresses his hopes that Robert Walker, the territorial governor of Kansas, would not use military force against the pro-slavery people of Lawrence, Kansas, and reflects on James Madison's wise refusal to send a military force to the Hartford Convention during the War of 1812. Insists that "One decision of a court will overturn all that [Kansas slavery advocates] could do," and cites the demise of the New Court party in Kentucky. Lewis Cass was then vice-president. McLean was a supreme court justice. Letter shows docketing in Cass's hand.

GLC06211

1702/01/20

Nanfan, John, fl. 1688-1702

Letter

Title: to the Lords of Trade re:discovery of a conspiracy led by Nicholas Bayard

The letter was written by John Nanfan, Abraham de Peyster, S. Staats, Robert Walters, Thomas Weaver, and William Attwood. They inform the Lords of Trade that they have discovered and investigated a conspiracy to defame the government, led by Nicholas Bayard. P.2 contains a second letter from 21 January 1702, in which the authors encourage the Lords of Trade to make and example of Nicholas Bayard. Docketed on verso.

GLC03107.04937

1711/12/11

Hunter, Robert, 1664-1734

Manuscript document

Title: Answers to objections to the settlement of the palatins in New York

The document defends Robert Livingston's choice of land to settle his palatins in New York. Docketed on p.4.

GLC03107.04941

1712/12/09

Manuscript document

Title: Blank writ of the mayor's court

GLC03107.04943

1746/12/15

Milon, Louis, fl. 1746

Manuscript document

Title: Testimony regarding the taking of a privateer

Louis Milon, Francis Honoret, & Joseph le Blanc testified that their French privateer was taken by a British one. Followed by the testimony of John Tinker, who took the deposition of the 3 above-named men.

GLC03107.04947

1783/01/08

Manuscript document

Title: Subpoena to appear in court

The subpoena requests attendance in court to give testimony in a case between Hendrick Platner, plaintiff, and Caleb Kiphart, defendant, in a plea of trespass.

GLC03107.04949

1783/01/24

Manuscript document

Title: Subpoena to appear in court

The subpoena requests an appearance in court to testify in the trial of Hendrick Platner, plaintiff, and Caleb Kiphart, defendant.

GLC03107.04950

[1783]/01/24

Manuscript document

Title: Subpoena to appear in court

The subpoena orders an appearance in court to testify in the trial of Hendrick Platner, plaintiff, and Caleb Kiphart, defendant.

GLC03107.04951

1783/01/24

Manuscript document

Title: Subpoena to appear in court

The subpoena requests an appearance in court in order to testify in the trial of Hendrick Platner, plaintiff, and Caleb Kiphart, defendant.

GLC03107.04952

1699/05/08

Manuscript

Title: Observations on an act to regulate elections of representatives in the General Assembly

GLC03107.04958

[1763]

Manuscript

Title: Observations on the trade and revenue of North America

The manuscript discusses smuggling and illegal commerce in North America, and how it has become such a chronic problem. It also contains a plan of guard stations on the coast of North America.

GLC03107.04961