1785/12/03

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Document signed

Title: Printed pay order addressed to David Rittenhouse for Lewis Farmer (soldier)

Partly printed document directing payment to Farmer, "state Lieutenant Colonel of the 13th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line ... the sum of two shillings eight pence, being one year's interest on his depreciation certificate...."

GLC04842.22

1773/07/02

Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas, 1723-1790

Manuscript document signed

Title: Legal bond of naval officer Richard Lee, Daniel Dulany & Benedict Calvert

Signing as Justice of the Peace. Lee was to assume the position of Maryland's Naval Officer of the port and district of the North Potowmack [isc].

GLC04842.26

1776/12/24

Langdon, John, 1741-1819

Manuscript document signed

Title: Pay order to Andreas Colburn for military service

Signed as Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives

GLC04842.28

1779/02/06

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

Broadside

Title: ...By an Express just arrived... His Britannic Majesty's speech to Parliament

Reprints King George's speech to Parliament reporting French aid to "the leaders of the rebellion" in America. The king asks for the support of Parliament and funding from the House of Commons. Printed from the [London] General Advertiser and Morning Intelligencer of 11/27/1778.

GLC04954

1783/06/09

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Document signed

Title: Military discharge of John Brown, soldier in 2d NY Art. Reg. (c/s Trumbull)

Partially printed. The soldier is "John Brown [space] Matrass [?]." He served from 17 March 1781.

GLC04675.08

1791/03/15

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to Gov. of Georgia re: transmitting copies of various acts of Congress

Various acts of Congress: Whiskey tax, the capitol, treasury dept., salaries of the Executive Dept., post office, pensions for invalids, support of light-houses, reducing the public debt, granting lands to settlers in the Northwest territory, raising an additional regiment to protect the frontiers, the U.S. Mint, and provisions for temporary jails when necessary. Docketed.

GLC04675.01

1781, reprint Philadelphia 1807

Map

Title: Plan of the investment and attack of York in Virginia [from Life of Washington]

Plate IX. Shows Yorktown. Published by C. P. Wayne; engraved by Francis Shallus.

GLC04760.02

1776/03/23

Broadside

Title: Rejection of Olive Branch Petition by Congress; lets colonists arm vessels

The document sets regulations for arming vessels for defense and privateering. Printed by John Dunlap.

GLC04771

1781/08/28

Carmichael, William, fl. 1781

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Morris re: conditions in Europe, prospects for treaty, Jay in Spain

GLC04772.02

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

1775/06/12

Gage, Thomas, 1718-1787

Broadside

Title: Proclamation of amnesty in Boston to all but Samuel Adams and John Hancock

Authorship attributed to John Burgoyne. With woodcut royal seal of George III at top. Gage writes: "In this exigency of complicated calamities, I avail myself of the last effort within the bounds of my duty, to spare the effusion; to offer, and I do hereby in his Majesty's name, offer and promise, his most gracious pardon to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only..., Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment."…

GLC04781

1778/05/09

Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792

Broadside

Title: A Proclamation.

This document is a proclamation ordering American ships to act according to an honest code and not take up piratical acts while in American waters. It is a printed broadside approved by Henry Laurens and Charles Thomson as President and Secretary respectively.

GLC04804.02

1776/02/22

Massachusetts

Broadside

Title: A Proclamation for a general fast [Massachusetts Bay Colony]

Printed by Benjamin Edes. References: Evans 14841, MHS Broadsides 1981.

GLC04817

1790/08/12

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gouverneur Morris re: diplomatic problems with Britain

With separate (disconjugate) docketing leaf. Discusses diplomatic problems with Great Britain concerning American neutrality and the execution of the Treaty of Paris. "We wish to be neutral... if they will execute the treaty fairly." Written at a time when Britain and Spain were on the brink of war. Jefferson was concerned about Britain trying to conquer adjacent areas like Florida. In the fall of 1789 Alexander Hamilton began informal meetings with a representative of Great Britain, Major George Beckwith in Quebec. In the spring of 1790, President Washington sent Governeur Morris to…

GLC04887

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

1773/11/23

Bordman, Andrew, 1743-1817

Autograph document signed

Title: to John Winship

Orders Winship to notify Cambridge freeholders of a meeting to discuss Parliament's passage of a tea tax by way of empowering the East India Company to export tea. Also notifies him of a proposed meeting of several towns to consider responses to the Tea Act. A note by Winship on the verso acknowledges his compliance. Bordman was the town clerk of Middlesex. Winship was the constable of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Written just before the Boston Tea Party

GLC05098

1781/06/16

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Document signed

Title: to Judge Peters re: authorizing pay-master to pay James McHenry $6,990 & 60/90

Printed document countersigned by Jonathan Trumbull Jr. Paying McHenry for his work as Washington's secretary. With ANS of McHenry at bottom.

GLC06723

1801/09/03

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Bureaux Pusy?? re: assistance to Revolutionary veteran, forwarding

Letter is addressed to Pusey, and appears to be forwarding a petition for Congress to introduce. Written in Monticello

GLC06749.01

1774/05/16

Great Britain. Parliament. Boston Port.

Broadsheet

Title: Boston evening post. Supplement [printing Boston Port Act]

Slight text loss to newspaper banner at top.

GLC06743

1775/06/24

Broadside

Title: New York Journal. Supplement. "Last Night arrived an Express..."

Reprints an eyewitness account of the battle of Bunker Hill. Printed by John Holt.

GLC06744

1775/07/17

North, Frederick, 1732-1792

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown re: relaying Gage's opinion that 32,000 troops are needed

Relaying Gage's opinion that 32,000 troops are needed to suppress to suppress the rebellion in North America Written in Bushy Park.

GLC06746.01

1775/09/17

Montague, John, fl. 1775

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown re: ship construction in Philadelphia

Signed "Sandwich." Montague was Earl of Sandwich.

GLC06746.02

1776/02/23

Germain, George Sackvile, Viscount Sackville, 1716-1785

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown re: Burgoyne and Carleton

Germaine was Viscount Sackville.

GLC06746.03

1801/08/11

Pusy, Bureaux, fl. 1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Jefferson re: requesting assistance [in French]

GLC06749.02

1775/09/05

Broadside

Title: Fresh Intelligence

Broadside printing of news: Captain Lee of Liverpool sends report of resolution to King George III to dismiss his advisors for giving poor counsel about the rebellious colonies (a false report). States troop strength of the colonies and of Spain and France. Also mentions the mobilization of Spanish troops.

GLC06653