2 April 1892

White, B., fl. 1892-1894

Autograph document signed

Title: [Decision of the Bishops Court, 3rd Ward]

By agreement of both parties, the suits of Peterson and Ballantyne were heard at the same court. Decision in favor of the Ballanytnes.

GLC05756.090

28 May 1893

Johnson, A.J., fl. 1887

Autograph letter signed

Title: to High Council of Weber Stake

Testifying that he heard Christian Johnson say he was surprised to learn the his land had been sold to another man. He had deeded it to Peterson. He also states that Johnson's testimony concerning this was struck from the first court trial.

GLC05756.103

September 17, 1880

H. Gaze & Son

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George May Powell

They refer him to their American contact as they do not conduct international business from the London office. Letter is on H. Gaze & Son Tourist and Excursion Directors letterhead.

GLC00687.253

10 November 1859

Dewey, Squire P., fl. 1859-1879

Autograph document signed

Title: [Warranty deed with Seth Clark]

Land agreement between Squire P. Dewey and Seth Blank. The land passes from Dewey to Blank.

GLC02161.005

April 1887

Tourtellot, Asa, fl. 1887

Autograph document signed

Title: [indenture of lease]

Incomplete. Asa Tourtellot sells a tract of land to Charles, Mary, and Abby Francis Tourtellot.

GLC02750.322

January 1905

Tourtellot, Charles, fl. 1905

Typed document signed

Title: [indenture of lease]

The Tourtellots, Jenks, Wilder, and Paine lease a tract of land to Mark Tordoff.

GLC02750.324

2 December 1875

Jenks, Ethan A., fl. 1825-1901

Autograph document signed

Title: [indenture]

Paine and Colwell transfer ownership of a Providence, Rhode Island store, along with all goods and merchandise in it to Ethan A. Jenks. Also sealed by Jenks, Paine, and Colwell.

GLC02750.313

February 17, 1788

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Hopes to be able to inform Knox by the next post that New Hampshire ratified the Federal Constitution "as every account from that quarter gives encouragement to that effect." Of Massachusetts' ratification, writes, "...the Federalists in this State increase daily and there is every reason to think that the people at large (except the Insurgent Interest) are fully satisfied with the Ratification, however some persons may say to the contrary." Comments on [James] Swan's debt and asks about his copper contract with the Treasury. Notes that his appointment to Federal regiments has almost…

GLC02437.03800

February 17, 1813

Mullins, Thomas, fl. 1813

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Indenture for land from Thomas Mullins to William Jesse]

Thomas Mullins and his wife Lucy Mullins selling land to William Jesse. Also signed by Lucy Mullins. With autograph note signed by Benjamin Lectcher acknowledging the indenture and signed by Thomas Kennedy, justice of the peace. Docket signed by William Jesse, dated 17 February 1813, transferring the land to Leonard Jackson. Attested to by Zachary Crittenden. Docketed and signed by George Healey, as clerk, ordering the indenture to be recorded.

GLC03434.82

February 17, 1798

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Agreement]

Agreement between Knox and Waterman Thomas concerning land in the Waldo Patent. Signed by both Thomas and Knox.

GLC02437.07088

February 27, 1796

Phillips, Samuel, 1752-1802

Manuscript document

Title: [Committee report on petition of Henry Jackson]

Report describes an earlier agreement Henry Jackson and Royal Flint made with the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, specifying which lands they purchased. Explains that Jackson petitioned the committee to reduce the amount of land he is buying. Authorizes Jackson and the committee to make a new contract. Signed by Samuel Phillips, as President (perhaps of the Committee), as well as Edward H. Robbins.

GLC02437.06642

February 17, 1772

Goldthwaite, Thomas, 1717-1799

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Thomas Goldthwait's June lease]

Documents a lease of land negotiated by Thomas Goldthwait between the heirs of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo on the one part, and [possibly his son] Thomas Goldthwait Jr. Signed by Thomas Goldthwait and Thomas Goldthwait Jr., as well as by Jonathan [Lowder] and Francis Archbald, Jr. as witnesses (though all signatures are in the same hand).

GLC02437.09073

February 6, 1765

Freeman, Enoch, 1706-1788

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Extract from the deed of division of lands]

Apparently addressed to Jedidiah Preble. Outlines the lands being given to Thomas Flucker on behalf of his wife, Hannah Waldo Flucker, as she is an heir to her father Brigadier Samuel Waldo's estate.

GLC02437.09023

8 August 1867

Wait, Horatio L., 1836-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to darling Cherry (wife)

They are doing business with a couple of Israelites that have a contract to furnish sevral thousand tons of coal to the fleet. Lately he stays on board the ship and studies French. He has been to several ballet performances. He is thinkng to go to Madrid soon.

GLC08284.070

10 April 1875

Moyes, Jas S., fl. 1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs H. Wait

Informs her that the county clerk has not yet registered the mortgage.

GLC08284.126

29 March 1873

Mead, Edwin, fl. 1873

Autograph document signed

Title: An Agreement between Harriet H. Wait and Edwin R. Mead

Concerning the ownership of some property and some furniture and other items contained within.

GLC08284.129

27 May 1806

Wormeley, Ralph, fl. 1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Mortgage for Dragon-bridge plantation]

Ralph Wormeley deeds ownership of the Dragon-bridge plantation to John Taylor as payment for a one thousand five hundred dollar debt. The five hundred acre plantation in Middlesex county would be returned to Wormeley if he could repay the debt in cash within eight years. Also signed by William Gordon, Samuel Ripley and Benjamin Baughton as witnesses, and certified by Thomas Muse and B. McCarly as clerks. The Wormeley family settled in Virginia in 1636 and became one of the most powerful and influential planter families.

GLC03434.02

December 2, 1865

Heyward, William H., 1817-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William A. Williams

One letter from William Henry Heyward, enslaver and proprietor of Clay Hall plantation in Reconstruction-era South Carolina, to William A. Williams dated December 2, 1865. Discusses going to Charleston to receive a pardon and to attain ownership of Clay Hall by the Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees and Abandoned Lands. He would be contracting freedmen he had formerly enslaved into a labor contract for cash rather than offering them crops. He remarks: "It only remains for me to enter into contract with the Freedmen (formerly my own Negroes) for the ensuing year-- and although it is difficult to…

GLC00496.254.06

28 November 1860

McSherry, Richard M., 1792-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry F. McSherry

Written by Richard to his son Henry as an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Navy. References receiving his letter. Gives him investment advice. Tells him Tom is getting married tomorrow, Anna is writing him again, and that Dr. McGary will stop and call on him before going to Europe. Reports that two hogs were killed, giving them 659 pounds of meat. Says he has not settled on a contract to buy John Janney's(?) farm and will not "unless the southern difficulty is settled."

GLC03523.21.05

7 September 1863

Birch, W.C., fl. 1863

Printed document

Title: Copartnership Document

Notice of a co-partnership agreement between W. C. Birch and Andrew Aitken for a General Food Business for a three year term.

GLC03523.52.11

6 May 1903

Johnston, Witter H., fl. 1861-1864

Printed document

Title: [Deed]

Partially printed deed. Land agreement between W.H. Johnston and n and Mary Sorenson. He is giving up land in Iowa.

GLC02167.56

30 May 1831

Document

Title: Slavery contract

Contract between James Reed and "Providence, a negro man aged about twenty-eight years," binding Providence to Reed for ninety years. Reed planned on emigrating to Texas, then a provice of Mexico, where slavery was not legal.

GLC08397

4 December 1897

Zelaya, José Santos, 1853-1919

Document

Title: Monopoly of lead, fulminating caps and cartridges for shot guns and revolvers

Contract approved by Zelaya as President of Nicaragua. Contract given by Minister of Finance Enrique Lopez. Probably arranged by Walker in retirement from the U.S. Navy working on the canal commission in Nicaragua, but his signature is not on the document. The president offered this contract to "increase the sources of revenue, so as to meet the increased expenditures which the public service demand." The contract contains 8 articles, the more important of which state that lead, caps, and cartridges can only be sold at government depots; lists of the stocks of these items owned by merchants…

GLC03804.24

7 January 1783

Doughty, John, 1754-1826

Autograph document signed

Title: Return of the Women & Children at the Post of West Point & its Dependencies, that would have drawn Rations under the late Regulations, and also of the number of Extra Rations drawn under the new Contract

Lists number of women and children by regiment and includes the amount of extra rations they will receive under the new regulations.

GLC02437.01809

6 December 1782

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Contract between the U.S. Treasury and Comfort, Richard, and Joshua Sands of New York for acquiring rations for West Point soldiers]

Agreement between Morris, acting as Superintendent of the Finances of the United States (appointed by Congress), and Comfort Sands, Richard Sands and Joshua Sands of New York that the Sandses will "furnish and deliver" to West Point and other nearby posts a number of rations of provisions to be determined weekly by the Secretary of War. Provisions include flour, beef or pork, whiskey or rum, salt, and vinegar. Contemporary clerical copy created for Knox's file. Signer of the U.S. Constitution.

GLC02437.01301