6 January 1854

Gadsden, James, 1788-1858

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Cripps

Writes to his Secretary regarding an upcoming reception at which he does not want to be present. Forwards a letter from J.B. Crocket of San Francisco (not included) who he wants Cripps to assist in deciphering a grant. Is still awaiting the notes from a conference Cripps was to send and explains that he may need to "make war" with Ward, using the notes as leverage. Mentions an upcoming interview with President Pierce and is concerned about his silence on the breach of trust, the center of which Gadsden believes is Ward and his cohorts. Promises that he and his treaty "will stand erect"…

GLC03587.07

February 5, 1854

Gadsden, James, 1788-1858

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Cripps

Annoyed with his Secretary regarding the conference notes he has been expecting since possibly March 1853 (see GLC03587.01 and .07). He has exposed Ward, and President Pierce has taken Gadsden's side. Gadsden is only disappointed that the provision regarding "the grant" has not been struck from the treaty, even after Ward had been outed. Rants about Ward being obtuse and treacherous and includes his thoughts on others' betrayals. Included clipping rebuts the rumor that Cripps became Gadsden's Secretary and Minister to Mexico because they were related. No postmark. Imprint in upper left…

GLC03587.08

21 April 1868

Remington, William, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document

Title: Lease to Mr. N. P. Campbell

Marked as a copy. Agreement to lease No. 50 Bolton Place to N. P. Campbell for three years. Sets the yearly payment and the conditions of the lease. On page two are notes dated 1871 and 1872 renewing the lease.

GLC03545.24.04

1 October 1870

Remington, William, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document

Title: [Lease of property to J. M. Cook & Co.]

Marked as a copy. Certifies that Caroline and William Remington are leasing 46 South Howard Street to J. M. Cook & Co. beginning 1 October 1870 for $1200 a year.

GLC03545.24.13

2 May 1868

Manuscript document

Title: [Statement of account of 145 North Street]

Certifies receipt of payment from Mr. Henry and John C. Coulter of $1000 for leasing 145 North Street, Baltimore, owned by Mrs. Caroline W. Remington. Marked "original statement."

GLC03545.24.14

15 April 1866

Manuscript document

Title: [Estimate of cost of new fence]

Details costs involved in building a new fence.

GLC03545.24.15

17 August 1869

Remington, Caroline, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Lease agreement for 52 Bolton Street]

Agreement to lease a property in Baltimore owned by the Remingtons to George W. Mahool for one year. Marked original on document.

GLC03545.24.16

31 July 1853

J.B.M., fl. 1853

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Cripps

Writes to his friend reporting the death of an acquaintance. Discusses the declining financial state of his ranch and the inevitable sale of the land. Plans to meet Cripps in Mexico and ponders the possible economic advantages of relocating. The author looks forward to their adventures in Mexico. Imprint in upper left corner is indecipherable. Postscript asks Cripps about the "senoritas" in Mexico. Envelope postmarked 1 August, San Francisco, 24 August, San Francisco, and Acapulco.

GLC03587.03

29 November 1853

J.B.M., fl. 1853

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Cripps

Writes to his friend about his lack of correspondence. Chides Cripps about setting up the San Francisco boys for when they arrive in Mexico. Includes local news and describes the financial burden the ranch has become. Sends his regards to Cripps' mother, if she has yet joined him.

GLC03587.06

June 1785

McIntosh, Lachlan, 1725-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Speech regarding the boundary line of the Creek Nation]

Docket indicates this to be a speech by McIntosh. "We wish to show you our Brothers & Country Men also, that all injuries are forgotten and gone away- and the Hatchet buryed deep between us and your Nation likewise [1]... if one nation or people have more than they can use or have occasion for; - they ought in reason of Justice to give part of what is useless... to those people who are in want & cannot live without it &c" [4]. McIntosh claims that the boundary line designated in a previous treaty was left unmarked. Attempts to settle the boundary dispute and to persuade the…

GLC02437.03161

12 November 1785-2 June 1789

Milton, John, fl. 1740-1804

Manuscript document

Title: [Articles of two treaties, concluded at Galphinton and Shoulderbone Creek between Georgia and the Creek Nation]

Clerical copies of treaties concluded at Galphinton between "commissioners appointed on the part of the state of Georgia" and the Creek Nation. Verified as a true copy by the Secretary of the State of Georgia, John Milton. Apparently establishes the land upon which it is acceptable for Creeks to settle on in the state of Georgia. Copies of signatures of several dozen members of the Commission and of the Creek Nation, including John Twiggs, Elijah Clark, Warrior King, and Okmulgey Tusknackey. The first five pages (numbered 1-5 in a later hand) comprise a clerical copy of the signed 12…

GLC02437.03216

4 August 1793

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [An article of Francis Waldo's will]

Document pertains to issues regarding the division of the estate once belonging to Francis Waldo. Knox hopes to secure the portion of the Waldo patent left to Hannah Harwood. Believes he is entitled to it because Harwood once deprived Lucy Knox of over four thousand dollars that she was meant to inherit from Francis Waldo, when Harwood lost the money as a debt. This discussion is related to Knox's desire to buy the Winslow family's share of the Waldo patent. Contains a transciption of part of Francis Waldo's will, stating that over two thousand dollars be divided among the children of his…

GLC02437.09245

19 December 1859

Maitland, William G., 1846-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James M. Maitland

Informs his brother that he has purchased a farm 300 acres from Blair County. States, "Now in regards to Politics: I am an administration Democrat Squatter...Sovernty I care nothing about...any political doctrine that will not suit East west north & South is not the National or Union doctrine...I believe the territory of the United States to be common..." Continues on to discuss the question of slavery and state rights, writing "I believe James Buchanan done just what any honest man would have done who regarded his oath to carry out the laws of the constitution Douglass, Garney, Hickman…

GLC03523.10.023

January 31, 1860

Hunter, G., fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James and Nancy Maitland

Reports that he is enjoying good health and weather and that his brother's farm has been sold.

GLC03523.10.024

January 22, 1865

Damuth, Dolphus, fl. 1839-1913

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Maria Damuth

Writes to his sister. Responds to family concerns that he might reenlist and promises this is not the case. He will come home and "take care of you as you intended I would when you gave me a deed of the farm." Warns his brother not to reenlist, since he has served a hundred days in Memphis and "seen a dead rebel and now he ought to stay at home and trot his young one on his knee." Writes about friends of the family. Ends the letter with the warning, "Dont let evryone [sic] see this."

GLC03523.14.81

June 16, 1786

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Marquis de Lafayette

Knox references Lafayette's letter from February 11, 1786. He thanks Lafayette for his kindness toward his brother, William, when he was ill. Says that William has recovered and has been with him since October 1785. Hopes the recovery is permanent. Discusses the affair of Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who had been sent to France in 1783 to purchase jeweled eagle badges for the members of the Society of the Cincinnati. L'Enfant returned to America in 1784 and brought back many badges purchased on credit. The price proved too high for some officers, which left L'Enfant in a bind. Goes on to…

GLC02437.03276

16 August 1794

Wetmore, William, 1749-1830

Autograph document signed

Title: [Land transfer certificate]

Agreement relating to the transfer of 6,000 acres of land within the Waldo patent.

GLC02437.09252

August 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Result of negotiations between Henry Knox, Benjamin Lincoln, and the Penobscot Indians]

Knox writes, "General Lincoln and myself were appointed to treat with the Penobscot indians, in order to induce them to relinquish the lands from the head of the tide 40 miles up the river- In our stretch Oreono, an old man half indian and half french of the [Castine] breed, made the following reply." In the reply, the Penobscots express concern "about the agreement what was made at the first of the War with Genl Warner at Watertown. The Genl desired that we would not suffer any person to come on our land The Almighty placed us on the land and it is ours... Now why should we not hold the…

GLC02437.03046

4 September 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: The substance of the commissioners speech to chiefs of the Penobscot Indians 4 September 1784

Lists the Penobscot Chiefs as Oronoe (Orono), Squire Orson, Nicktumbowit, John Nepton, Peelsock, Wine [Measum] (possibly the Wine Meesor of other sources) and Wine Aremooglit. Congratulates the Penobscot tribe on their conduct during the Revolutionary War. Asserts "That it was said [the Penobscots] were in possession of more lands than were necessary for their purposes and that they seemed fully to be of this opinion themselves, as we were informed they had sold considerable tracts..." Adds, "but if they really possessed more lands than were necessary, or were desirous to change their…

GLC02437.03048

4 September 1784

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Manuscript letter

Title: [Speech delivered to the Penobscot Tribe]

Written at the Penobscot River, present-day Maine. Lincoln, a commissioner chosen to negotiate land boundaries with the Penobscot Tribe, praises the Penobscots' involvement in the Revolutionary War. Continues, "It is said that in your own Opinion the Lands you occupy far exceed the Quantity necessary for your own Use; and that you have suffered pretended purchases for trifling Considerations, to engross Part of them... the Sovereign Power of this Commonwealth... will not suffer Individuals to purchase those Lands which you are permitted to occupy." Offers the option for the Penobscots to…

GLC02437.03049

17 December 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Price

Knox writes to Price, Register of Deeds for Lincoln County (present-day Maine). Requests papers related to the Waldo Patent, expressing disappointment that his previous request went unanswered. Asks for certified duplicates of a deed between Samuel Waldo and the widow Sarah Waldo to Thomas Flucker (Knox's father-in-law) dated 17 August 1773.

GLC02437.03079

March 1785

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Excerpt of a petition in which Knox and others attempt to persuade the Massachusetts Legislature to sell uncultivated lands to officers and soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War]

Signed in the docket. Knox, Benjamin Lincoln, Henry Jackson, and others attempt to persuade the General Court of Massachusetts to divide land in the eastern part of the state (present-day Maine) for officers and soldiers who served in the Revolution. Knox argues that all other states have granted uncultivated lands as such. Writes, "...it would be a subject of great mortification and depression to your petitioners that the Legislature of this Commonwealth should decline to receive in payment for [?] Lands the very money which your petitioners received for their services from the United…

GLC02437.03124

19 August 1789

Waldo, Samuel, fl. 1723-1770

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Writes to discuss a possible dispute over a piece of property he is interested in, and the related financial situation. Signed by either S. Waldo or I. Waldo. Letter has no recipient, but was likely written to Knox, since the author states "Mrs. W. presents her reards to you, Mrs. K, and family."

GLC02437.09227

23 October 1789

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to Samuel Waldo [fragment]

Discussing financial transactions regarding properties in Maine that Knox and Waldo are involved with.

GLC02437.09228

October 1790

Wetmore, William, 1749-1830

Manuscript document

Title: [Judgement regarding land in Waldo patent]

Judgement regarding the ownership of lands within the Waldo patent. Pertains to a disagreement between Sarah Waldo and William Wetmore who are disputting the ownership of lands within the patent. The judgement divides the land between them. Docket states that the judgement was made as an agreement between Henry Knox and William Wetmore.

GLC02437.09234