1815-1860

Johnson, William J., 1815-1860

Autograph document signed

Title: [practice writing capitals]

GLC09302.013

22 July 1854 - 4 July 1855

Johnson, Woodson, fl. 1820-1864

Autograph document signed

Title: [Hogansweek meetinghouse newsletter]

record of nominations, baptisms, and schedule

GLC09302.014

17 September 1807 - 8 June 1840

Thomas, Jesse B., fl. 1807

Printed document

Title: [Various proceedings from the house of representatives]

including extracts from the laws of the Indiana territory, and the journal of the senate in Ohio.

GLC09302.015

1 October 1869

Deursen, P. Van, fl. 1869

Printed document

Title: [circular noting the interest stockholders are required to pay]

includes a statement of R.G Johnson's account.

GLC09302.016

5 July 1857

Johnston, Co., 1857-?

Autograph note signed

Title: [note containing balance due on R.G Johnson's account]

GLC09302.017

1815-1860

Autograph document

Title: "Warden Lane"

Includes several figures, adding, subtracting and division.

GLC09302.018

17 December 1861

Autograph document

Title: [note promising to pay E.W Johnson Administrators]

GLC09302.019

5 September 1853

Meddy, Joseph, 1853-?

Autograph document

Title: [tobacco figures for Joseph Meddy]

GLC09302.020

12 December 1858

Johnson, G.W., 1858-?

Autograph document signed

Title: [G.W Johnson promises to pay rent]

GLC09302.021

January 15, 1855

Boyce, W., fl. 1855

Printed document

Title: Speech: The Annexation of Cuba

GLC09302.022

21 April 1855

Martin, Andrew, 1855-?

Autograph document signed

Title: [a commitee is formed for the task of choosing a pastor]

GLC09302.023

1815-1860

Autograph document

Title: [Hogans Creek Meeting House Newsletter]

GLC09302.024

1815-1860

Printed document

Title: [Outline of the Greatest Work Published on the Chinese Sugar Cane]

Description of nine chapters including description, methods of syrup making, cultivation and other products derived from the plant.

GLC09302.025

13 July 1864

Johnson, Jugirtha, 1864-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Raleigh Johnson

expresses sympathy toward wife's illness, discusses family issues.

GLC09302.026

2 July 1827

Johnson, Rawley, fl. 1827-1853

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Woodson Johnson

Mentions that he needs Edwin to go to Danville to collect a draft of money for him.

GLC09302.027

24 July 1852 - October 1852

Autograph document

Title: [church schedule]

GLC09302.028

18 March 1877

Shockleford, C.G., fl. 1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Blanche Kelso Bruce

mentions the Whig party

GLC09400.268

1820s-1864

Johnson, Woodson, fl. 1820-1864

Header Record

Title: [Collection of Woodson Johnson] [Decimalized .01- .65]

Materials including 1850s ledger book, dozens of letters, and slave bills of sale from tobacco planter and slave dealer in Pittsylvania Co., Va., and Rockingham Co., N.C. Archive includes: Johnson's ledger book from the 1850s, recording debts for various plantation items as well as household goods, sales of tobacco and brandy, and dozens of entries re hiring of negro slaves, expenses, recording labor usage, etc.; Watson, F.W. ALS, dated 5-31-1850: "I sold Bob the day after you started…for $750, believing it was better to take that price than to risk his going back to Guilford where he might…

GLC09302

29 November 1838

Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873

Newspaper

Title: The Emancipator. [Vol. 3, no. 31, whole no. 135 (November 29, 1838)]

Contains an article on "The Whigs and the Abolitionists," the election in Massachusetts, and miscellaneous other reports. Leavitt serves as editor. Published weekly by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

GLC08875.07

1844

Gibbons, James Sloan, 1815-1892

Broadsheet

Title: Humanity's last appeal to the abolitionists of the United States, against the increase of slave territory

Urges Northerners to vote for the Whig ticket, and oppose the Democrats, who favor the annexation of Texas. Argues that annexation is planned only to increase slavery and the power of the slave states. Texas is large and suitable for slavery and thus annexing it "would encircle Africa with slave-ships, and under the stimulus of insatiable avarice, penetrate farther into the interior of the devoted country." Annexation would also lead to war with Mexico. Argues slavery can be defeated steadily through the vote, and urges Northerners to show their increased support of abolition and vote…

GLC08997

1852

N. Currier (Firm)

Print

Title: [Lithographs of Winfield Scott]

Two Currier lithographic copies depicting a bust portrait of Scott as a Whig candidate for president. One with his face colored, the other without. The lithographs are the same size but the borders differ.

GLC08630.05

28 June 1856

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Discusses the prospects of the newly formed republican party in the election of 1856. Comments that some would like to see William Freame Johnston on the ticket but Welles hopes Johnston will withdraw. Also discusses the prospects of Millard Filmore, the Whigs, James Buchanan, and the Know Nothing Party, and comments on their various supporters. William Freame Johnston was nominated by the North American Party to run for vice president with John C. Fremont on the Republican ticket but withdrew.

GLC08161

February 14, 1855

Ewing, Thomas, 1829-1896

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William H. Seward

Discusses the failed attempt to unseat him from the United States Senate: "the combination to destroy by mutiny and treason the advantages which the Whigs of New York won in the open field was a fearful one. But we have prevailed."

GLC08226

15 November 1775

Scott, John Morin, 1730-1784

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Varick [Incomplete]

"Every office shut up almost...All business stagnated, the City is half deserted for fear of a Bombardment - a new Congress elected - those for New York you will see by the Papers are changed for the better - all staunch Whigs now - How it is with the Convention I know not...Yesterday the new Congress was to meet but I believe they did not make a House...Nothing from t'other side of the water but a fearful looking for of wrath. Our Continental petition most probably condemned, the bulk of the nation (it is said) against us, and a bloody campaign next summer. But let us be prepared for the…

GLC09061

circa 1820

Hewson, John, 1744-1821

Autograph letter

Title: to Rufus Lincoln [incomplete]

Undated, circa date inferred from other letters in the collection. Note in pencil in different hand says page 13 is the last, but it is missing here. Pages numbered 5-12 so beginning and end of letter are missing. After escaping to New Jersey, probably in October 1778, from a reference in another letter, they went back to pick up their fellow escapees who could not swim and paid their helpers with the canoe they stole. They were forced to keep moving and were helped by farmers who supported the Revolution. Says this took place in Monmouth County where "General How made so many wigs by his ill…

GLC03849.08