4 November 1737

Moquet, Francis, fl. 1737

Autograph document signed

Title: [receipt for Abraham Harding]

for entertainment of the proprietors at their meeting

GLC02891.019

10 November 1737

Marcy, Moses, fl. 1737

Autograph document signed

Title: [receipt of Abraham Harding]

for preaching

GLC02891.020

28 July 1738

Marcy, Moses, fl. 1737

Autograph document signed

Title: [receipt of David Moses]

for 'rate upon the right of John Plimpton in the year 1737.' Written in the town of Sturbridge

GLC02891.021

August 18, 2017

Plimpton, John, 1734-?

Autograph document signed

Title: [record of proprietors' meetings from 18 October 1738 - 24 November 1738]

Written in the town of Sturbridge

GLC02891.022

12 March 1739

Tisk, Henry, fl. 1737-1739

Autograph document signed

Title: [formal declaration of desire for meeting]

Addressed to Abraham Harding. The proprietors wish to have a meeting. Written in the town of Sturbridge

GLC02891.023

27 April 1739

Rice, Caleb, fl. 1737

Autograph document signed

Title: [receipt of James Denison]

Written in the town of Sturbridge

GLC02891.024

8 May 1739

Tisk, Henry, fl. 1737-1739

Autograph document signed

Title: [petition to have meetings at sturbridge instead of medfield]

Written in the town of Sturbridge

GLC02891.025

10 May 1739

Dwight, John, fl. 1734-1737

Autograph document signed

Title: [meeting notes]

includes proposals and appointments Written in the town of Sturbridge

GLC02891.026

7 June 1739

Autograph document signed

Title: [receipt of Abraham Harding]

for entertainment of the proprietors

GLC02891.027

16 June 1739

Autograph document

Title: [account records]

GLC02891.028

17 October 1739

Cheney, Joseph, fl. 1737-1739

Autograph document signed

Title: [receipt for Abraham Harding]

Written in the town of Sturbridge

GLC02891.029

12 December 1739

Dwight, John, fl. 1734-1737

Autograph document signed

Title: [receipt for Abraham Harding]

Written in the town of Sturbridge

GLC02891.030

26 March 1739

Buller, Judith, fl. 1739

Autograph document signed

Title: [monetary agreement]

agreement says a specific amount of money is due to Henry Harding.

GLC02891.031

27 August 1842

Harris, William A., fl. 1842

Pamphlet

Title: Removal of the Cherokees West of the Mississippi

27th Congress 2nd Session Rep. No. 1098 House of Representatives

GLC03776.43

1 January 1848

Moore, Robert, fl. 1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Moore

He had too much eggnog and has been sick. He describes his girlfriends, referring to one in particular he would like to marry and comments on other potential couples. He believes that the old house should be sold and that their mother should be given certain assistance. He has become a member of the Episcopal church. He reports the increasing number of Blacks in town.

GLC04191.30

1852

Horn, Hosea B., fl. 1852

Header Record

Title: Horn's overland guide, from the U.S. Indian sub-agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California... [with map] [Decimalized .01- .02]

GLC04152

1852

Horn, Hosea B., fl. 1852

Map

Title: Map to Illustrate Horn's Overland Guide to California and Oregon

Map originally attached to Horn's overland guide (housed with books, GLC 4152.01), from the U.S. Indian sub-agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California containing a table of distances, and showing all the rivers, creeks, lakes, springs, mountains, hills, camping-places, and other prominent objects, with remarks on the country, roads, timbers, grasses, curiosities, etc.; the entire route having been tracked by a road-measurer, and the distances from place to place, and from the Missouri River, accurately ascertained. With a complete and accurate map…

GLC04152.02

1853

Pamphlet

Title: Et Afskedsquad til Emigranter

GLC09535

25 November 1861

Smith, Asa, fl. 1861-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

to mother [Ann Smith] He notes the arrival of three regiments, saying that it appears there is going to be a fight and implying that Yorktown will be hurt by the Union's forces. He describes how troops from Delaware caught a Confederate soldier, and also captured six more Confederates nearby. He tells of an altercation between the Massachusetts 16th and the New York 20th, a largely German unit. The New York 20th men attacked a Massachusetts 16th soldier one day, which resulted in a huge brawl where the New York 20th got the worse of it. He tells about giving up their meals to a cavalry unit…

GLC03696.04

12 December 1861

Smith, Asa, fl. 1861-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to mother

to mother [Ann Smith] Life in camp is dull. The regiment has a new lieutenant. His company is very good at drilling, and they are practicing under Col. Max Weber from Europe. The brigade practiced firing, and he says "there is music in the whistle of minnie balls especially when you hear some three thousand of them at once." He answers a question about his daily schedule. The sutler's store is closing, and he is glad. He received a letter from Natick, Massachusetts. Numbered in pencil "32." Written at Camp Hamilton.

GLC03696.05

17 November 1861

Smith, Asa, fl. 1861-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to sister

He writes that he heard southern regiments mutinied by Norfolk when they were not allowed to go to the defense of their states and said they would only fight under "the stars and stripes." A hard-of-hearing Union sergeant was accidentally shot by his own sentry when he failed to respond to the cry. He hopes he will be ordered to Beaufort. He reports that German scouts saw "2000 rebels" nearby and says if the Confederates attack Newport News, "they will get awfully whipped." The chaplain saw Senators Mason and Slidell. The men badly need new pants. Smith received letters from Wallace and…

GLC03696.06

June 3, 1893

Christian Arbitration and Peace Society, fl. 1893

Typed letter

Title: to George May Powell

They protest the discrimination against Chinese people from and on American shores, citing statistics of imports and exports with Hong Kong. There are two copies.

GLC00687.145

14 November 1863

Parrott, John A., fl. 1861-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to brother

His brother has sold his farm and will settle in Minnesota. Their father has also sold his farm. John instructs his brother regarding money, telling him if their father does not need it, to send it to him care of N. Thompson so that John may use it in building his house in Sterling. He intends to return to the building business when he leaves the Army.

GLC03858.01.23

1861-1877

Photograph signed

Title: [Louis Bernkopf, carte de visite]

White mount. Ink inscription on verso: "Louis Bernkopf aus Camenz [Kamenz], Preuss[…?] Sohle[?]ien, [G]ermany." Ink inscription on recto: "Louis Bernkopf." Three quarter length seated portrait in 15th N.Y.S. Vols. Uniform holding a book in one hand, and a pencil in the other.

GLC00919.24.09

February 12, 1913

Bernstorff, Count J., fl. 1913

Typed manuscript

Title: Abraham Lincoln as the Germans Regarded Him

GLC08880.079