ca. 1700

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document signed

Title: Petition to Sidney Godolphin re: reimbursement for victualling

Livingston petitions the Lord High Treasurer to receive "satisfaction" in return for victualling the four companies garrisoned at Albany, claiming to have victualled those four companies from 24 December 1699 to 24 April 1700 without having received any compensation for his expenditures.

GLC03107.00590

1709

Vetch, Samuel, 1668-1732

Manuscript document signed

Title: "Instructions to be given to the two Indians to be sent . . .

. . . to Montreal, and Quibeck." Document leaves instructions to take careful note of troops and fortifications in Canada. The document is also signed by Col. Fr. Nicholson.

GLC03107.00807

November 7, 1699

Livingston, William, fl. 1769-1793

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: news of William's sons

William writes reiterating his request for Robert to discover any news of the captivity of Andrew Livingston, and his belief that James Livingston might possibly be dead. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.00516

1705

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Sydney Lord Godolphin, Treasurer re: reimbursment of funds for victualling

Livingston petitioned Sydney Godolphin, Lord high Treasurer of England, to be reimbursed for the victualling of "2 of the Established Companys at New York for four months," from 25 December 1699 to 24 April 1700. On p.2 Livingston enumerates a list of proofs for his claims and refers to government reports to account for the interest he has charged.

GLC03107.00518

1697

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document

Title: Receipt of salary

List of 67 men who had been paid for their services under Capt. Weeme.

GLC03107.00389

1697

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document

Title: Officers who have not been paid

List of 12 men who had not been paid their salaries.

GLC03107.00390

13 August 1698

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document signed

Title: Account of money disbursed to soldiers by Richard Earl of Bellmont

P.1 lists the different sums of money paid to individual soldiers at Albany. P.2 contains a memorandum of 15 August 1698 noting the delivery of rum to the Indians of the five nations.

GLC03107.00441

October 6, 1679

Kendall, William, fl. 1679

Manuscript document

Title: Answer to the Onondagas message [in Dutch]

GLC03107.01888

October 30, 1679

Kendall, William, fl. 1679

Manuscript document

Title: Proposition to the Oneidas

Copy of GLC03107.01.01891.

GLC03107.01892

July 18, 1666

Manuscript document

Title: Proposition at the Indian fortress at Albany [in Dutch]

GLC03107.01853

April 24, 1677

Pynchon, John, 1626-1703

Manuscript document

Title: Copy of Major Pynchon's proposal on the Mohican [Mahikander] [in Dutch]

GLC03107.01864

April 24, 1677

Pynchon, John, 1626-1703

Manuscript document

Title: Proposition regarding Mohican [Mahikander] Indians [in Dutch]

GLC03107.01865

September 16, 1679

Kendall, William, fl. 1679

Manuscript document

Title: Proposition for Indian policy [in Dutch]

Contains two separate proposals. Robert Livingston signed as the translator of both proposals.

GLC03107.01880

circa 1585-1763

Livingston, Robert III, 1708-1790

Manuscript document

Title: List of the independent company of soldiers of the Manor of Livingston . . .

. . . commanded by Robert Livingston, Jr.

GLC03107.03004

22 August 1817

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Letter signed

Title: To the Inhabitants of the town of Saco

Written by Monroe as President during his tour of the country after his victory in the election of November 1816. This tour echoed the famous tours of America President George Washington made in 1789 and 1791. The tour inaugurated what is known as the Era of Good Feelings. This letter expresses pleasure at the respectful greeting he had in Saco, Massachusetts, in the District of Maine (Maine did not join the Union as a separate state until 1820). Monroe was in Saco on 15 July 1817, but this letter is written over a month later from Boston and directed to William Moody, a tavern owner and…

GLC03400

15 March 1781- 9 May 1782

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Pickering's letterbook]

Inventory attached. Contains two alphabetical lists of recipient's names. One eight page list is attached to the inner front cover by string and measures 23.2 x 19 cm. The other list is bound in as part of the letterbook. Contains letters to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Baron von Steuben, among various others. Letters within this book were created in various locations, and most were written by Pickering. The last, written to Pickering, is attached to the inner back cover. Includes an envelope attached to the inner front cover containing a transmission letter dated 30…

GLC03425

10 October 1777- 11 April 1778

Hand, Edward, 1744-1802

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Hand's Revolutionary War letterbook]

Many letters contained within this book were created at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania. Various other locations are noted. A typed biography and a partial list of persons to whom Hand's letters were written are included with this book. "Copies of Letters written to officers while at Fort Pitt ... 44 leaves Mrs S. Bethel" is written on the front cover.

GLC03426

27 December 1863

Birney, William, 1819-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Angel James Creswell

General Birney discusses the recruitment of African American troops with Creswell, a United States Representative from Maryland. Expresses his hope to "enable the First District to meet its full quota in colored troops," with Creswell's support. Discusses slaveholders' conspiracies intended to prevent enslaved people from enlisting, including the mistreatment of enlisted enslaved people's wives and children. States that a Mr. Vickers, from Kent County, Maryland (possibly George Vickers), indicted a Mr. Gardner for encouraging his enslaved people to enlist. States that Vickers also…

GLC03428.02

29 December 1795

Colerick, Hunter & Beaumont, fl. 1795-1797

Newspaper

Title: The western telegraphe, and Washington advertiser. [Vol. 1, no. 20 (December 29, 1795)]

Contains President George Washington's seventh State of the Union Address. Among other topics, Washington discusses treaties confirmed by the Creek and Cherokee tribes, a treaty of navigation with Great Britain, and a review of the United States military. Contains articles on foreign and domestic affairs, advertisements, and announcements. Fragile, especially near the edges.

GLC03433

February 21, 1814

Jones, William, 1760-1831

Pamphlet

Title: Letter from the Secretary of the Navy transmitting a list of all the commissioned officers in the Navy of the United States showing their respective rank and dates of the commissions; also a list of all the midshipmen with the dates of their warrants

Printed by Roger C. Weightman. Printed by the order of the United States Senate. Samuel Otis, Secretary of the Senate, states that Jones' list of officers and midshipmen was printed for the use of the Senate following the motion of Jeremiah Mason, Senator from New Hampshire.

GLC03436.03

1776

Hamilton, A. Jr., fl. 1769-1785

Magazine

Title: Town and Country Magazine or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment for the Year 1776. [Vol. 8, (1776)]

Eighth annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues bound in original leather. Includes many engraved plates. Indexed at the end of the volume. Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr. Book is boxed. Includes "Description of Nova Scotia," "Description of Quebec," "Account of New York and the Jerseys," "The Present State of America," "Louisiana Described," "Products of North and South Carolina," "A Detail of the Battle of Long Island," many articles on the American Revolution, and a letter telling of a…

GLC03457

January 1791- June 1791

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

Magazine

Title: The American Museum or Universal Magazine. [Vol. 9 (1791)]

Contains six monthly issues, January to June 1791. Bound in contemporary leather. Published by Carey, Stewart & Co. Contains a lot of information on American history at the beginning of the U.S. Government, Indian "depradations (sic)," Washington's proclamation establishing the District of Columbia, state constitutions (Appendix II), much early American poetry, patriotic and humorous anecdotes, etc.

GLC03461

1814

Pamphlet

Title: Three Congressional speeches re: Loan bill of 1814 to finance war

GLC03466

4 May 1857

Ould, Robert, 1820-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Isaac Toucey

Recommending Joseph Mason for "a runner to a Court of Inquiry."

GLC03468.05

12 March 1857

Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Recommending Mr. Cummings for pursership in the Navy. Bottom of page has an autograph note singed by John Appleton, also supporting Cummings. Letter may have been written to Appleton.

GLC03468.07