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1784/03/04

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

Manuscript document signed

Title: Act re: election of five commissioners to negotiate Indian treaties

Elected commissioners are George Rogers Clarke, Oliver Wolcott, Nathaniel [sic] Greene, Richard Butler, and Stephen Higgenson.

GLC07793

1864/02/17

Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

Letter signed

Title: to Jefferson Davis re: payment of interest due to Choctaw tribe by Virginia

GLC07799

1854/08/19

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

Document signed

Title: Authority to affix the seal to treaty with Miami Indians of Indiana

GLC07807

1877/06/22

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Letter signed

Title: Circular letter re: eliminating electioneering by civil servants

GLC07809

1801/01/30

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Letter signed

Title: to James Hillhouse re: notifying Senators of special session

GLC07813

1809/08/22

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Letter signed

Title: to Representatives re: reply to representatives of Michigan Territory

GLC07817

1836/12/22

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Document signed

Title: Rep. of Texas passport to the U.S. issued to Robert A. Irion

GLC07804

1821/08/02

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Q. Adams re: thanks for Fourth of July oration

GLC07806

1794/08/28

Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

Letter signed

Title: to Patrick Henry re: envoy to Madrid

GLC07812

1875/04/27

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert P. Kennedy re: possible presidential candidacy

GLC07822

1791/09/19

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Pamphlet signed

Title: Return of the whole number of persons... [census report]

GLC07833

1806/06/22

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Rush re: politics, Francisco de Miranda's expedition

GLC07837

1766/01 ca.

Lords Treasury Committee

Manuscript document

Title: Motion for an address re: Stamp Act opposition in the colonies

GLC07654.17

[1766]/02/04

Lords Treasury Committee

Manuscript document

Title: Resolutions of Lords Treasury Committee on American business

Document states that the laws imposed by the Parliment of Great Britain are to be held strictly, and any governor in those colonies that have partook in insurrection should make sure his subjects pay the proper recompensations to the Crown and to those who their actions have harmed (either physically or financially). Also, those colonists who have complied with British laws are to be protectedand held in favor.

GLC07654.18

1766/02/14

Sons of Liberty (New York, NY)

Letter signed

Title: to [unknown] re: unifying the Sons of Liberty in New York

Call to assembly of as many Sons of Liberty as possible to combat the threat of British taxation and to protest the Stamp Act, as well as demand trials by juries.

GLC07654.19

1766/02-04 ca.

Manuscript document

Title: Abstract of Proceedings in 1676 and 1677 in the case of Bacon's Rebellion

GLC07654.20

1766/03 ca.

Knox, William, 1756-1795

Manuscript document

Title: Considerations continued no. 2

Discussion of the plausibility of a "drawback," or export tariff on goods before they left England so that the final price in the colonies would be slightly higher but a tax would not be added on in the colonies, in an effort to lessen opposition to the tax.

GLC07654.21

1766/03/17

Great Britain. Parliament.

Manuscript document

Title: Lords protest re: repeal of the Stamp Act

Response from the House of Lords, in dissension to the Bill of Appeal of the Stamp Act. "If we give our Consent to it without a full Conviction that is right . . . we in effect annihilate this Branch of Legislature, & vote ourselves useless." Possibly in Grenville's hand.

GLC07654.22