1863 ca.

Header Record

Title: Carte de visites of men of Co. M 7th Iowa cavalry who fought against the Sioux [word processed inventory available]

Many of the men's cartes have been signed or otherwise identified. Almost all the men are in uniform. Most come from the Sioux City studio of Gurnsey.

GLC04506

1781/12/12

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Moses Rawlings re: moving British POW's to Lancaster & Philadelphia

Washington also mentions allowing foreigners to stay in frontier towns.

GLC04566

1865/01/28

Wallace, Oliver V., fl. 1850-1865

Newspaper

Title: Soldier's letter. Second Colorado cavalry. [Vol. 1, no. 13 (January 28, 1865)]

GLC04587

1862/03/20

Pike, Albert, 1809-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Ross re: requesting necessary papers to capture fugitive slave

The slave was wanted for the crime of horse stealing.

GLC07385.01

1862/02/20

Rector, H.M., fl. 1862

Document signed

Title: calling for Cherokee Nation to remove and deliver "Jack" to Albert Pike

"Jack a negro man...charged with horse stealing...has fled". (Extradition request?)

GLC07385.02

1825/08

Manuscript document

Title: Contemporary copy of Treaty of Prairie Du Chien (WI) [Schoolcraft copy]

Copy of Henry R. Schoolcraft, the 19th century scholar and ethnologist of Native Americans. Tied with green ribbon

GLC07391

1818/06/02

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Letter signed

Title: to John C. Calhoun

The war against the Seminole Indians. "I have deemed it advisable to call into service... two companies of rangers ...with instructions to scour the country... exterminating every hostile party who dare... not surrender & remove their families above the 31 of latitude. The Seminole war may now be considered as at a close. Tranquility again (has been) restored to the southern frontier... the immutable principles therefore of self defence justified the occupancy of the Floridas & the same principles will warrant the American Government in holding it until such time as Spain can…

GLC07378

1817/08/19

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Letter signed

Title: to George Graham

"[T]his will ensure the removal of 19/20 of the whole Cherokee Nation." Docketed.

GLC07375

February 18, 1788

Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

[Thomas] Hutchins, Surveyor General, presents his respects to Henry Knox via the bearer of this note, Mr. [Israel] Ludlow, another surveyor in the Geographers Department. Hutchins can not be there in person because he is "confined by a touch of the Gout." Hutchins awaits the surveys and remarks of Winthrop Sargent, Secretary of the Ohio Company and the Northwest Territory. Written in the third person and signed in the text, possibly by a secretary.

GLC02437.03803

1787/10/03

Thompson, Charles, fl. 1787

Document signed

Title: Congressional Resolution.

Congressional Resolution to raise a corps of 700 troops from CT, NY, NJ, and PA for defense of frontiers against Indian hostilities.

GLC07972

February 7, 1790

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anthony Wayne

Signed "HK." Discusses the Creek Indians in Georgia. Agrees with Wayne about the utility of rifles. Asks if maybe Wayne's informant was mistaken in saying that the Creeks received 6000 muskets from the Spaniards. Writes about whether or not Georgia has a constitutional right to sell any of the Western lands not legally purchased from the natives, and says the result will soon be known. Assumes that a company of troops formerly discussed will be ready to march soon. States, "The subject of the creek business is under the consideration of the legislature...The late sales of Georgia has operated…

GLC02437.04502

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

1866 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: General John C. Fremont, in civilian clother, left profile

Graphite inscription on verso "66." Ink inscription on verso "Apr. 1865." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H.T. Anthony 501 Broadway New York from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery."

GLC05111.02.0379

1814/05/12

Stephens, Issac, fl. 1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Mackey re: account of Battle of Horseshoe Bend, with drawing

Written on light pink paper to his uncle, Henry Mackey at Lexington, Va. A plan and account of the battle of Horseshoe Bend, the last battle of the Creek War, after which the Creek leader Red Eagle surrendered to Jackson and signed a treaty abandoning their lands in Southern Georgia and Alabama. The drawing, which is well drawn and detailed, is entitled "A correct View of the Battle of the Horse-Shoe, March 27th 1814... when the Indians were totally destroyed by the unequaled bravery of the gallant sons of Tennessee, commanded by General Jackson." Stephens's letter (with the attached…

GLC06772

1792/05/21

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to Gov. of Virginia re: transmitting acts of Congress

Acts involve land grants, protection of frontiers, militias, debt relief, duties on spirits, national defense, altering Treasury and War Departments, copper coinage, governing territories, etc.

GLC06712

February 8, 1792

Ogden, Samuel, 1746-1810

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Provides new information that he received on good authority about how a Mr. P. gave information to a merchant company in England that the ports at Niagara and Detroit would be taken by the United States. Briefly mentions how this information pertains to the Indian struggles in the Northwest Territories.

GLC02437.05312

23 Ferbuary 1788

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to Samuel H. Parsons, James M. Varnum, and John C. Symmes

Knox writes to Parsons, Varnum, and Symmes, the first judges of the Northwest Territory. Introduces Thomas H. Cushing, who served in the army during the Revolutionary war and plans to settle in the Northwest Territory. Recommends Cushing for the position of clerk of the court for the Northwest Territory. Docketed as a "Copy of a Circular letter."

GLC02437.03806

February 8, 1847

Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877

Autograph note signed

Title: to Mr. Fisher

Wilkes, a Naval commander and former leader of the United States Surveying and Exploration Expedition, requests Fischer (possibly either Congressman David Fisher or George Fisher) to send him a ticket for an assembly.

GLC03480

1696/10/28

Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de, 1620-1698

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Madame De Dhuxelles

Describes his efforts to suppress the Iroquois. Mentions the writings of Father Hennepin which claim to describe life in New France, but Frontenac suggests they are not accurate. Written as Governor General of New France. De Dhuxelles was the wife of the Marechal of France.

GLC05297

1770/05/07

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Document signed

Title: Admitting Ohio Co. as co-purchaser of land (c/s Wharton, Pownall & Walpole)

Signed by Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Wharton, Thomas Pownall and Thomas Walpole. The document admits the Ohio Company as additional co-purchaser for a tract of land "for a new province on the Ohio." The manuscript states how the land will be divided. (The land being purchased is now in the state of Indiana.) Accompanied by a manuscript sale announcement for several thousand acres "situated on the River Ohio, a little above the River Kentucke [sic]."

GLC05311

1792 ca.

Paine, Thomas, 1725-1802

Book

Title: Public good: being an examination into the claim of Virginia... [land claims]

Full title: "Public good: Being an examination into the claim of Virginia to the vacant Western Territory, and of the right of the United States to the same." Published by Charles R. & George Webster. (Not first edition.) An account of the question of the destiny and ownership of the lands to the west. Paine says the new lands should be a new state and should be admitted immediately to the fledgling U.S.

GLC05213

1784/08/10

Ellery, William, 1727-1820

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Asks his correspondent to deliver a letter. Requests that he be sent an act from his correspondent's state concerning interstate import duties. Discusses Rhode Island's opposition to impost duties called for by Congress under the Articles of Confederation. Remarks that he is looking to western territory for resources to diminish the public debt.

GLC05538

1794/07/19

Irvine, William, 1741-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Denny

Discusses a dispute between the United States and the Six Nations over land. Contends that "there is nothing in the Constitution...that gives the Legislature much less the Executive a shadow of Power to cede...a single foot of ground, the territory right of soil or jurisdiction of any state." Criticized Israel Chapin, an Indian agent to the Iroquois, for telling citizens of Pennsylvania to "quit their lawfull business" and "flattering the savages with a hope that this ground is to be relinquished." Discusses how to maintain peace, commenting on the power of the governor and…

GLC05542

1799/05/23

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Letter signed

Title: to James Wilkinson re: summoning Wilkinson to Washington

"I begin now to be anxious to learn that you had received my letter desiring you to repair to the Seat of Government...that...a general plan for the arrangement of the affairs of the Western Army, with an eye to the existing posture of our political concerns, might be digested and adopted." Syrett, Harold C. (The Papers Of Alexander Hamilton. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976), Volume XXIII: 1799/04 - 1799/10, p. 139

GLC07656

1697/08/13

Schuyler, Peter, 1657-1724

Manuscript

Title: Order for the patrolling or ranging of the woods [in Dutch]

GLC03107.05130