24 October 1780

Hazen, Moses, 1733-1803

Letter signed

Title: to Jeremiah Wadsworth

Discusses settling the depreciation of currency owed to men in a Connecticut regiment.

GLC02499.08

23 October 1778

Huntington, Jedediah, 1743-1818

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Eldridge

Written by Brigadier General Huntington to Captain Eldridge. Sends Eldridge an account of the money advanced by him for Eldridge's recruiting services. Begins 3 January 1777 and ends 17 June 1777 for a total of slightly over 649 pounds. Says he cannot send a receipt since they are at camp. Postscript says Eldridge has been moving around so much that the auditors have not been able to go over all his paperwork and as soon as they are done he will send the receipts to him.

GLC02499.09

25 November 1777

Ko´sciuszko, Tadeusz, 1746-1817

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt to Jonathan Trumbull]

Colonel Kosciuszko, the famous Polish patriot, says he received two hundred dollars to Colonel Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., paymaster of the New York Department, for work in the engineering department. The payment was agreeable to Major General Horatio Gates. This payment could be for work done at the Battle of Saratoga. Kosciuszko fortified Bemis Heights overlooking the Hudson and his ingenious design contributed to the surrender of 6,000 troops under General John Burgoyne. On verso is another partial receipt for twelve dollars from Trumbull to a Frances Payne.

GLC02499.10

23 October 1779

Nixon, John, 1741-1815

Document signed

Title: to Benjamin Heywood

Informs Heywood that he was chosen for a committee to settle payment for Massachusetts troops in arrears due to currency depreciation. Written at "Camp Pines Bridge"

GLC02499.16

24 June 1820

Wirt, William, 1772-1834

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Jefferson

Written by Wirt as Attorney General of the United States to Jefferson in retirement. Letter of introduction for Colonel Allen M. Lane, who was recently given a land bounty by Virginia for his services in the Revolution. Says the testimonials of his exploits in the war, as told by General George Washington, were recently before Jefferson. Says Chief Justice John Marshall's and Major Gibbon's praise make any further introduction superfluous, "since no one knows better how to value a soldier of the revolution." One bust engraving of Wirt included.

GLC02504.41

21 March 1643

Vane, Henry, fl. 1643

Document signed

Title: to A. Nicholl

Also signed by Francis Rous and Cornelius Holland, among others. Warrant for the wages of the armorers of the Tower of London. Vane was Royal Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636.

GLC02468.23

September 19, 1861

Slidell, John, 1793-1871

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Introduces Mr. Pike, who has arrived in camp to pay the Louisiana troops for prior service.

GLC02469.23

18 September 1788

Von Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, 1730-1794

Letter signed

Title: to William North

Whimsical letter written by Von Steuben in retirement and in debt in New York to his former aide North, who was also in retirement at Duanesburg, New York. Refers to North as "my dear Bill." Looks back on the last year. Mentions that "you did cut your name & mine, in a Big tree" and that the Constitution was signed. Says ten years ago Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga. Says nothing is decided by Congress, in reference to an application for a pension still pending before that body. Says he is going to winter with Armstrong and that they are going to take the corner house at Nassau Street…

GLC02542.12

18 April 1865

Spinner, Francis Elias, 1802-1890

Printed document signed

Title: [Certificate of deposit by Kansas soldier donating his savings to the U.S. Government]

Partially printed certificate of the U.S. Treasury filled out by hand. Patriotic $50 donation by soldier Alfred T. Jackson of Co. D of the 1st Regiment of Kansas Mounted Infantry indicated to be the "amount of his savings as a soldier." Spinner was treasurer of the United States.

GLC02609

1837-1908

Stafford, Robert H., fl. 1837-1866

Header Record

Title: Robert H. Stafford Collection [Decimalized .01- .98]

Stafford enlisted as a sergeant in the 12th Alabama infantry. Contains letters and newsclippings about the Peninsula Campaign, advance into Maryland, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Early's raid on Washington, D.C. Preliminary inventory included.

GLC02618

December 31, 1863

Wright, Horatio Gouverneur, 1820-1899

Autograph letter signed

Title: Statement concerning the service of Lieutenants Hayden and Hubbell

Major General Wright confirms that Lieutenants T.L. Hayden (possibly Thomas Lloyd Hayden), 7th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and Henry Wilson Hubbell, 40th Regiment, New York Volunteers served as Wright's aides-de-camp from January 1862 to August 1863, and "are entitled to pay as such during that period."

GLC02464.21

January 27, 1862

Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh, 1822-1905

Letter signed

Title: to Charles Stewart

Written in camp near Edward's Ferry (possibly in Virginia). Dana, Colonel and Acting Inspector General, writes to Stewart, Assistant Adjutant General, Corps of Observation. Supports unspecified charges against Colonel George W. B. Tompkins, 2nd New York State Militia. Includes notes concerning Tompkins's muster and pay rolls for Company B to be used as evidence. Also encloses the pay accounts of Tompkins (not included). Numbered "52" at the top.

GLC02464.02

22 October 1846

Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890

Autograph letter signed

Title: to E.M. Kerne

Informs Lieutenant Kerne, commander of the district of the Sacramento Valley, that Peter Brennan, this letter's bearer, has authorization to enlist men "in the service of the United States at the rate of twenty five dollars per month." Asks Kerne to give Brennan assistance. Fremont was then engaged in military activities against California, then owned by Mexico.

GLC02475.05

9 February 1863

Gordon, S.W., fl. 1846-1871

Letter signed

Title: to Thomas H. Patterson

Circular letter signed by Captain Gordon as commander of the USS "Powhatan" to Commander Patterson of the USS "James Adger." Says he has been ordered by the admiral to remind all commanding officers off Charleston of General Order No. 11. Says at the beginning of every month they need to start sending to the commander in chief "a statement in tabular form of the number of contrabands onboard, their rates and the time and terms of their enlistment." Written while aboard the USS "Powhatan".

GLC08519

21 March 1780

Dunlap, John, 1747-1812

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania packet or the general advertiser. [March 21, 1780]

Contains dispatches of General George Washington and Congress. Includes reports on various ships, and war news from Georgia. Contains a report from the House of Commons pertaining to a bill for the encouragement of Irish trade. Includes a report on Continental troops taking a British officer (Captain Ogden) hostage near Tarrytown, New York. Refers to an investigation conducted by General Philip Schuyler related to events in Canada. Contains an extract of minutes of the General Assembly, authorized by Assembly Clerk Thomas Paine, related to "An Act for striking the sum of One hundred…

GLC08748.05

30 November 1782

Dunlap, John, 1747-1812

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania packet or the general advertiser. [Vol. 11, no. 970 (November 30, 1782)]

Prints a proclamation made by the President and Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania concerning keeping Sunday as a holy day, the "Lord's Day." Reports on new regulations for the Quartermaster's department on p. 2 including officers to be appointed, and the pay and supplies given for the different ranks. Also prints "An Act to Prevent any New Independent State within the limits Commonwealth," on p. 3, first column, which states that any attempt to form a new government within the state will be considered treason.

GLC08691

17 June 1864

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. XXXIV, no. 25 (June 17, 1864)]

Prints articles on the British and Foreign anti-slavery society and a letter of Gerritt Smith to Elizabeth Cady Stanton about 1864 presidential election. Brief article praises the equalization of pay for African American [colored] soldiers. Covers the Baltimore, Maryland convention, the re-nomination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the other presidential nominations. Also includes articles on the emancipation of the serfs in Russia, the repeal of the fugitive slave law, the Methodist Church and slavery, and Negro suffrage in Montana.

GLC08608

January 7, 1781

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Walter Stewart

Writes to Colonel Stewart to ask how he is addressing a recent mutiny in the Continental Army, referred to as "the unhappy and disgraceful dispute." Also notes the expected arrival of General George Washington. On January 1, 1781, soldiers under General Anthony Wayne deserted their camp at Morristown for want of adequate food, clothing, and pay. The mutiny was later suppressed by General Arthur St. Clair; Lafayette indicates he spoke to St. Clair about the matter and is in disbelief. The letter is dated 1781 but incorrectly docketed 1780.

GLC00139

January 10, 1832

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Susan Decatur

Responding to Decatur's letter, Adams will find it "highly gratifying" if he is able to aid Decatur in advancing her claim currently before Congress. Decatur was attempting to secure a pension for service rendered by her husband, Commodore Stephen Decatur, who died in a duel in 1820.

GLC00105

09 September 1783

Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790

Document signed

Title: Certificate of 600 acres of land for Capt. William McIntosh

[Title continued] in two warrants of 300 acres each. Signed as Georgia governor.

GLC00184.14

11 September 1783

Harrison, Benjamin (ca. 1726-1791)

Document signed

Title: Land grant to Private John Brett for service during the Revolutionary War

Partially printed document signed as governor of Virginia. Counter-signed by Thomas Meriwether.

GLC00184.16

May 5, 1799

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James McHenry

Marked private. In response to McHenry's private letter of April 29, which was a response to Washington's letter of April 23. Washington, commander of the Provisional Army created in 1798 in response to French aggression, wrote to McHenry, Secretary of War in the Adams Administration, on the issue of rank and pay in the army. Officers who lived farther away from the capital received their commissions later than those who lived closer. Since rank was calculated by time of acceptance, those living farther away felt slighted. He agrees with the solution that McHenry suggested to the President…

GLC00204

July 3, 1863

McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Moses Grinnell

Asks Grinnell if he can assist the bearer of the letter, supposedly the wife of one of McClellan's soldiers. The woman who is delivering the letter to Grinnell "represents herself as being Mrs. McCormick," the wife of a soldier who served under McClellan. She claims she is destitute, and McClellan asks Grinnell to help her, since he has "control of a fund destined to the relief of such cases."

GLC00221

August 25, 1863

Clemens, William, fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Flagg

William Clemens was a wounded soldier looking to draw his pay while in the hospital. With note from Captain Flagg on back, dated August 30. Written from USA General Hospital in New York.

GLC00468.07

October 15, 1822

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Gibson

An appeal to Gibson for an increase in the salary of the indebted Captain Thornton, who Jackson assures is an excellent officer.

GLC00519