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to Henry Knox

Offers his assistance in appointing officers to the army. States, "I believe but few are so well acquainted with the late Officers of the American Army as I am, and I do assure you, I should have been highly gratified to have assisted you in the...

GLC02437.04892

to Henry Knox

Writes to inform Knox that he has placed on board a particular schooner bound for New York several goods that Knox wanted, including potatoes and cranberries. Marked private on address leaf.

GLC02437.05266

to Henry Knox

Notes he received Knox's post and is "all anxiety to learn that you have fin'd the business with Mr. B [William Bingham?] - and also concluded with Mr [William] Duer..." Informs Knox that he has sent all of the copies out and that [Jean-Baptiste] de...

GLC02437.05744

to Henry Knox

Is making progress in preparing for the suit with the proprietors, but is having trouble tracking down all the heirs. Believes some of them have already sold out. Says Senator William Bradford of Rhode Island owns one share. Says "if you know him...

GLC02437.06009

to Lucy Flucker Knox

Writes to her sister-in-law. Reports her daughter Henrietta has much recovered. Says she has recently been sick, but feels better because the weather is nicer today. Will not be visiting soon.

GLC02437.06010

to Henry Knox

References Knox's letters of 18 and 21 December. Says "your determination to make your brother work is of the first importance to you & him - and the only means in my opinion to drive of his gloom and the inactivity of his mind." Says Henry Jackson...

GLC02437.06011

to Henry Knox

Informs Knox he will deliver Captain [Thomas] Vose and Mr. Ebenezer Dunton their letters once he copies them. Cautions Knox on how large and costly his house will be. Writes the house "will be much larger than a Country meeting house and with all...

GLC02437.06069

to Henry Knox

Recommends a young man to Knox who is interested in engineering.

GLC02437.06584

to Henry Knox

Mrs. Bayard asks Knox for dinner and tea.

GLC02437.06586

to Henry Knox

Writes to ask Knox about a land deal Copeland has been involved in since 1776, involving a William Gregory, John Martin, and Caleb Turner.

GLC02437.06879

to Henry Knox

Discusses the possibility of purchasing articles from Knox to be shipped abroad.

GLC02437.06883

to John Witherspoon

Authorizes Witherspoon to hire four men to work on his home, Montpelier in Maine.

GLC02437.06938

to Henry Knox

Winslow received Knox's letter of 27 March 1799. Winslow tells Knox, "on the morrow shall inform Merrills and Bracket of your acceptance of their terms...." Winslow mentions a problem he has concerning his (Winslow's) problem.

GLC02437.07250

[Extract]

Extract of a deed from Samuel Waldo to Adam Winthrop.

GLC02437.08872

[Account of payment made by Thomas Flucker to Samuel Dyer]

Includes account information from 16 October 1772. Signed on verso by Dyer 19 December 1772, certifying that Flucker paid part of his account, and signed again 20 April 1773 noting that the account is paid in full. Flucker paid Dyer "for work... at...

GLC02437.09477

[Recommendation for a leave of absence for Lieutenant Bliss]

Crane recommends Bliss for furlough until 1 March 1783. Directs his request to Major General Henry Knox at West Point.

GLC02437.09580

[Recommendation for a leave of absence for Captain Reed]

Colonel Butler recommends Reed, of the First Connecticut Regiment, for a leave of absence until 13 February 1783. Directs his request to Major General Henry Knox at West Point.

GLC02437.09581

[Recommendation for a leave of absence for Lieutenant James Bennet]

Lieutenant Colonel Johnson recommends Bennet for a forty five day leave of absence. Directs his request to Major General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.09582

[Recommendation for a leave of absence for Lieutenant Samuel Hoyt]

Colonel Webb recommends Hoyt, of the Third Connecticut Regiment, for a leave of absence until 13 February 1783. Directs his request to General Henry Knox at West Point.

GLC02437.09596

to Henry Knox

Informs Knox his and Mrs. Ulmer's house and all of their belongings burnt down. Notes they lost everything except the clothes on them and one bed. Says he thanks God his and his whole family's spirits have never been greater. Mentions his...

GLC02437.09855

[Ordnance report for the artillery park and other posts at West Point]

Lists numbers of brass and iron artillery at the West Point posts. Signed by Andrew Moodie, Captain of Artillery.

GLC02437.10070

[Copy of a survey map of land sold by Henry Knox to B. Joy of Boston]

Gleason and Robert Houston sign as surveyors. Depicts 16,340 acres of Waldo Patent land flanked by these notations: "Green, Waldo Heirs, Knox, Belfast, Northport, Lincolnville, and Bonapartte." A list of names is written in pencil within the area...

GLC02437.10341

to Pa

Written at a camp near Morton's Ford

GLC02618.053

to S. P. Oakes

GLC03136.057

to S. P. Oakes

GLC03136.059

[Receipt to S. P. Oakes for Vegetable Universal Pills]

GLC03136.091

to my dear mother

GLC03137.02

to Francis P. Blair

Informs Blair that he has praised both him and his newspaper in a letter to Congressman Hiester of Pennsylvania, and has endorsed Blair for role of printer for congress. Has also enclosed a few paragraphs on nullification for Blair to publish, which...

GLC03209.18

to Francis P. Blair

Recommending Jacksonian supporter Henry Petriken, who had served in the Pennsylvania state senate, and wishes to be appointed an official visitor to West Point. The Board of Visitors at West Point are responsible for inquiring about the Academy's...

GLC03209.21

to the United Cigar Co.

Retired Rear Admiral Schouler asks that the United Cigar Co. send him two half-pound boxes of fresh John Cotton's Smoking Tobacco, No. 1, mild quality, by registered mail. Sends a $3.30 check to cover the costs (not included).

GLC03479.70

to his family/Orderly Gammwell

Writes that he wishes that the receiver's furlong would be long enough to cast a vote for "the suppression of Rebellion". Makes reference to the Hartford Convention of 1863. A draft of a note written to Orderly Gammwell but sent to his family with...

GLC03603.215

to his family

Responds to news from his family about their new living situation. Writes about the Chaplain's insistence that the officers set good examples. Mentions his pledge not to indulge in alcoholic beverages and of his new pledge to give up tobacco...

GLC03603.260

Mr. & Mrs. Geo. C. Potter. At Home

Printed note stating that Mr. & Mrs. George C. Potter will be at home.

GLC03746.03.05

to Aunt

One letter addressed to "Aunt" from Samuel W. Ritchey dated Fort Pleasant, Arkansas, March 27, 1863.

GLC03135.10.053

[Patent for Abraham Lincoln's improvement in buoying vessels over shoals]

Patent granted to Lincoln for inventing "a new and improved manner of combining adjustable buoyant air chambers with a steamboat or other vessel for the purpose of enabling their draught of water to be readily lessened to enable them to pass over...

GLC01304

to mother

He has sent a sample of his hair. Sadly he had to have his mustache cut off. If Burnsides' expedition does well, all the New England batteries will go with him.

GLC02161.116

to Louis M. Goldsborough

Mentions the receipt of dispatches from Goldsborough and Rowan, who had been involved in the capture of "rebel batteries upon the Neuse River." Writes about the "brilliant victory" at New Bern and requests that Goldsborough "convey to Commander...

GLC02254.03

to George Washington

Details the report of the general officers respecting court martials. Discusses rules, procedures, and duties respecting court martials, trials, the Judge Advocate's role, etc. Lists as members Brigadier Generals Ward, Huntington, Dayton and Putnam...

GLC02437.10517

to James E. Heath

Enclosing a letter for Heath, the Commissioner of Pensions. Docketed in pencil, added later.

GLC03477.05

to Sarah W. Hale

She spends much of the legible part of the letter waxing poetic to her sister regarding her strong, positive feelings about her family, particularly her brother Horatio, and an overall positive outlook. Part of this letter is crosswritten.

GLC08934.007

The definitive treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America

Printed by Philip Denis Pierres for Benjamin Franklin. Untrimmed and unopened. First printing of the Treaty of Paris. The seal on the title page perhaps the second appearance of the Great Seal of the United States and "E plurubus unum."

GLC01234

[Military receipt]

Brownell, (possibly a captain or sergeant in the Revolutionary Army), states that Captain Joseph Shimbell received money "for Timothy Hopkins," and another sum "for which I promise to account for if they wont pay said Shimbell and if paid this order...

GLC01450.444.02.01

to Harriette Story Paige

Describes a service he attended the previous evening to his sister-in-law. Discusses the form used in the book of Habakkuk, stating that the "passages ... present ... a remarkable instance of the Hebrew form of Poetic composition." Quotes 3...

GLC01946.28

to his sister

Has just learned of a general order to stop outgoing mail but assures his sister that her mail to him will still be received. Advises her to be alert of any news from Big Bethel, Yorktown, Sewel's Point, Norfolk and Richmond. Reports that General...

GLC02016.009

to Ira Andrews

He recounts his unit's foray into Fredericksburg and their commendation from Governor William Sprague. He reports that he has picked up some historical artifacts, including Virginian notable John Randolph's purse, and is sending them home.

GLC02158.04

to Eunice Lombard Edwards

Replies to his mother from head quarters, 37th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. Comments on his location, noting that although he ordered his men to establish comfortable quarters, he does not think they will spend the winter there (possibly at...

GLC02163.14

to Mr. Johnston

He tells him how he spent his Easter. Then goes on to talk about New Hampshire and gives some history of the town Londonderry.

GLC02167.59

to Captain G.M. Bascom

Colonel Scammon of the 23rd Ohio regiment writes to Captain Bascom, A.A.A.G. (Acting Assistant Adjutant General) in Charleston. Reports on a captain Fowler that has asked for a leave. States that Fowler's company received their pay and want to send...

GLC02414.046

to Jacob Dolson Cox

Scammon writes as Colonel of the 23rd Ohio to General Cox, the division commander at Charleston, West Virginia. States that Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes has reported that some men of the 23rd Ohio have captured 15 "noted Bushwhackers" and burned...

GLC02414.062

to Henry Knox

Arranges to have the bearer of the letter retrieve artillery from Framingham, Massachusetts. Tracy was a merchant who turned privateer during the Revolution.

GLC02437.00261

to John Gleason

Appears to be discussing land issues with the settlers in Hampden and Bangor, Maine. Settlers may be trying to claim lots that Knox believes belongs to him. The right side of the letter is damaged causing minor text loss.

GLC02437.07724

Receipt

Document opens with "Received of Henry Knox one Consolodated note of this Commonwealth...for the sum of three hundred and eighty eight pounds, 14/6." Docket says this is a Henry Jackson's receipt "for notes put in to the Bank."

GLC02437.08571

[Payment]

Note to pay $30.

GLC02437.08823

[Certificate]

Certifies the presence of the incoming chairmen and that they will perform their duties.

GLC02437.08863

[Note]

States that Stephen Jones and Adam Richardson have been appointed to survey a tract of land for Samuel Waldo. Noted as written in Georgetown, state unknown.

GLC02437.08865

[Abstract of pay covering February 1776 for Captains Stephen Badlam and Ebenezer Steven's companies of artillery]

Abstract of pay due to Stephen Badlam and Ebenezer Steven's companies of artillery for the month of February 1776. Lists men by rank with pay amounts.

GLC02437.09507

[Recommendation for a leave of absence for Captain Taylor]

Major Smith recommends Taylor for a leave of absence until 15 April 1783. Written at Camp Highlands. Directed to Major General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.09702

[Recommendation for a leave of absence for Lieutenant Tiffany]

Major Smith recommends Tiffany for a leave of absence until 15 April 1783. Directs his recommendation to Major General Henry Knox. Written at Camp Highlands.

GLC02437.09703

Texas expects every man to do his duty... [calling for reinforcements at Alamo]

GLC03230.01

to Angeline Henry

Henry writes to his sister from a camp outside Brandy Station, Virginia. Comments on the radical changes in weather. Reports that the army has been reorganized and his corps is a third larger. Expects Union General Ulysses S. Grant to take command...

GLC03523.07.25

to Joseph M. Maitland

Maitland writes to his brother from home. Thanks him for a recent letter. Reports he went to church twice on Sunday and heard two very good sermons. Quotes several verses from the Bible. Says mother finds it hard to write at night and will write him...

GLC03523.10.118

to Henry F. McSherry

Written by Anna to her brother Henry. Relates the story of the bureaucratic infighting involving his resignation. A man named Horowitz wanted to take Henry's place, but Admiral Lee intervened to keep the resignation open. There were accusations of...

GLC03523.21.53

to his family

Writes of the trip from Newbern, up Slocum's Creek to Carolina (most likely North Carolina). Describes conditions of the camps and on the march. Also thanks his family for the maps they have sent him. Written from "Carolina City."

GLC03603.091

to his family

Criticizes McClellan and gives his opinion on the Union military strategy employed in the war. Writes of having a new horse which came to him with musket ball wounds. Mentions that it is his birthday and he had not realized it until dating the letter...

GLC03603.092

A Journal of the proceedings in the detection of the conspiracy [New York slaves]

Full title: "A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy formed by some White People in conjunction with Negro and other Slaves, for burning the City of New-York in America, and murdering the Inhabitants." Published in New York...

GLC04205.01

[Certification of arrival of recruits]

Certificate written in a secretarial hand for Bird as Lieutenant Colonel in 15th Regiment of Foot. Certifies that John Beamont and James Watson, recruits from the 24th Regiment of Foot, have joined his 15th Regiment. Bird died on 4 October 1777 at...

GLC04764.23

[Certification of arrival of recruits]

Written in a secretarial hand for Bird as Lieutenant Colonel of 15th Regiment of Foot. Certifies that James Ainsworth and George Lupton, recruits from the 20th Regiment of Foot, have joined his regiment. Bird died on 4 October 1777 at the Battle of...

GLC04764.27

to Mary Ann Foot

Expresses deep sympathy for the illness of her husband, Senator Solomon Foot, and refers to her own trials, "I pray that our Heavenly Father may be merciful to you . . .and spare you the cup of affliction, which I have been called upon, so freely to...

GLC04923

Speech fragment concerning the abolition of slavery [from 1858 Senate race?]

Manuscript, probably the concluding portion of speech, possibly from the 1858 Senate campaign, concerning his expectation that slavery would eventually be abolished. Lincoln acknowledge his ambition for higher office but continues, "[i]n the...

GLC05302

to C. Johnson

He will not accept Johnson's offer. He claims not to owe Johnson any money and pities him for being willing to spend $100 to collect $52.50 which he does not even have coming to him.

GLC05756.104

Southern confederacy. [Vol. 3, no. 38 (March 27, 1863)]

A letter from John B. Baldwin to James A Sedon, Secretary of War, is printed as "The System of Impressment," regarding seizures of private property by the government. "Treatment of Disloyal Persons. Important Letter from Gen. Halleck to Gen...

GLC05959.09.160

Charleston daily courier. [Vol. 61, no. 19,427 (March 27, 1863)]

Battle of Tallahatchie, National Fast - President Sanctified another Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, Yankee Iron-Clad Steam Ram "Chillicothe" Disabled, Another Advance on Fort Pemberton, High Price Paid for Negro Slaves at Auction, The...

GLC05959.37.14

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 29, no. 5 (March 27, 1863)]

Letters from Havana and Galveston. Editorial on the army in Arkansas, and another editorial on northern designs for Texas.

GLC05959.51.058

Houston tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 31, no. 1, whole no. 3888 (March 27, 1865)]

The latest phases of the American War, Early was found by Waynesboro, attacked by Custer, enemy fired one volley and fled like sheep as Custer closed his lines, etc.

GLC05959.54.44

Senate Joint Resolutions, No. 1. State of New Jersey.

Signed by Little, President of the New Jersey Senate. Countersigned by A. O. Evans, Speaker of General Assembly. Joint resolutions withdrawing the consent of New Jersey to the proposed Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. Tied at top with...

GLC06157.04

To: Marquis de Lafayette.

Re: "Exterminating the Monster Aristocracy" of New England Federalists, Constitution, The Voice of the People, French Colonies, and to Compound (House in Secure Facilities) Slaves in St. Dominique (Haiti).

GLC08063

Copy of Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

Amendment to the Constitution concerning slavery. "...No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions, including that of...

GLC09040

[Runaway slave]

A runaway slave in his own right, Pennington, while avoiding arrest in Liverpool, England, comments on the situation here in American and a fugitive slave case: "...My constant trouble of mind is the evils now pressing on my nation and people. What...

GLC09088

[Slave Patrol Contract]

Appoints a captain to oversee a company of men for "Patrol duty at least two nights in each week; and on the Sabbath day to disperse all collections of negroes or boys violating the Ordinances of the Town. On all slaves found off their owner's...

GLC09122

to Margaret Harris

One letter addressed to Margaret Harris from Edwin E. Harris dated Shreveport, Louisiana, March 26, 1864.

GLC03135.10.158

to Margaret Harris

One letter addressed to Margaret Harris from Edwin E. Harris dated Shreveport, Louisiana, March 27, 1864.

GLC03135.10.159

to Margaret Harris

One letter addressed to Margaret Harris from Samuel H. Sutherland dated Shreveport, Louisiana, March 27, 1864.

GLC03135.10.160

to James Allison

One letter from Eben Allison to James Allison dated March 6, 1864.

GLC03523.24.086

to Brother and Sister

One letter from Jonathan Bunnell addressed to his brother and sister dated Camp of the 121st N.Y. Vols., March 27, 1864.

GLC05195.160

to William Rabun

Secretary of State Adams informs Governor of Georgia Rabun that President Monroe has directed that Captain Obediah Wright be prosecuted for the murder of Chehaw Indians. He discusses some details necessary to start the prosecution. The Chehaw were...

GLC00782.11.02

to Charles Schultz

One letter addressed to Dr. Cohen from David "Davy" Crockett dated December 25, 1834. Expresses that Andrew Jackson has ruined the government and if Martin Van Buren is elected that he would move to Texas which he considered, "Paradise." Crockett...

GLC01162

President's Message

Same-day printing of the Monroe Doctrine in an extra for the Washington Republican and congressional examiner. One of the most important lines includes: "the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and...

GLC04824

To the Cherokee Tribe of Indians East of the Mississippi [circular] [removal]

Printed circular letter. "I have no motive, my friends, to deceive you...circumstances that cannot be controlled, and which are beyond the reach of human laws, render it impossible that you can flourish in the midst of a civilized community. You have...

GLC07377

to Sarah Hale

Letter to her sister, which is apparently the first since she left home. She describes quickly becoming accustomed to the lifestyle in Georgia and says that she prefers it, including the number of blacks in the area: she mentions that they "find it...

GLC08934.004

to Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Greeley tries to discourage Smith from founding a woman's newspaper as a poor business decision and discusses differences between business and reform. He concludes by preferring that they be "former acquaintances" rather than "friends" or "enemies."...

GLC00496.026

to Roger S. Baldwin

Former United States President Adams writes to Baldwin, a lawyer and abolitionist. He acknowledges the receipt of Baldwin's narrative of the Amistad case, to be tried before the Supreme Court. He writes "I consented with extreme reluctance at the...

GLC00582

to William Rabun

Andrew Jackson asks that Rabun, governor of Georgia, arrest Captain Obediah Wright for murder. Wright had destroyed a Chehaw village and murdered several of its inhabitants, while many of its members were aiding him in his expedition against the...

GLC00782.11.01

to Andrew Jackson

A brigadier general in the Seminole War, Glascock tells Jackson of his return to Fort Early during the first Seminole War and gives an account of the Chehaw Affair. He discusses the misunderstandings that lead Captain Obediah Wright, who was in the...

GLC00782.11.03

Second colony contract with permission to settle 500 Catholic families

Written in English. Authorizing settlement of 500 Catholic families. The document says that official communications with the families must be in Spanish and lists other conditions such as requiring families to be industious, "Cat[ho]lics and of...

GLC01160

to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

On its first day of publication in 1852, Stowe sends a copy [not present] of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. Slavery had been abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833, and Stowe holds Britain up as a model for...

GLC01585

to Catharine Macaulay

Written by Warren three days after the publication of the Constitution. She writes "[a]lmost every one whom I have yet seen reads with attention, holds the page with solemnity, & silently wraps up his opinion within his own breast...." (Not dated...

GLC01800.03

Speech fragment on slavery and American government

Probably part of a speech, beginning in the middle of a word. Lincoln emphasizes how America's affirmation of natural rights has made the nation into a wiser, stronger, happier and more progressive country.

GLC03251

American Colonization Society membership certificate, signed blank

Printed membership certificate signed by Madison as President and R. R. Gurley as Secretary. The American Colonization Society resettled Black freedpeople in Liberia. D.B. Mattern letter 6/14/96, Madison accepted the presidency per his 19 February...

GLC04675.02

to Joseph Allyn

Nelson writes to his brother Joseph in Connecticut, roughly one month after Nat Turner's Rebellion. Discusses family and mutual acquaintances, noting he is in good health. Writes, "the insurrection of the blacks have made greate disturbance here...

GLC05655

The drunkard's progress, or the direct road to poverty, wretchedness, & ruin

Four woodcut panels showing the decline of man through drink: The Morning Dram, The Grog Shop, The Confirmed Drunkard, Concluding Scene. Each panel is accompanied by a written description of each stage of drunkenness.

GLC06025