4 April 1847

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Moore

He comments on the slowness of the mail, and he comments on the pending marriages of several girls from home as well as other events. As spring approaches, the farmers prepare for what they hope is a good planting season. Relief efforts for the famishing Irish are still happening. A new postal law requires payment for sending papers, and he won't be able to send as many to her

GLC04191.11

7 April 1847

Dillon, David, fl. 1847

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert E. Moore

He is delighted to receive the letter and hopes to communicate more in the future. He reports conditions of famine, sickness, and waste and efforts to provide subsistence through public works, limited to certain numbers from each family. He updates news on the family, including marriages and deaths, including all his cousin's sisters.

GLC04191.12

29 June 1847

Mapen, H. I., fl. 1847

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert E. Moore

He is eager to maintain correspondence with him as an old friend. He imagines war news being disseminated at home. Many people are leaving the city for the North and cooler climates, and he is working to close his business for the season and enjoy some rural relaxation.

GLC04191.13

February 16, 1781

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Later copy of original. Preparations for a seige in New York early in the year. Informs Knox he expects 20,000 men for the seige of New York. Asks Knox to prepare a plan for artillery during the seige, and requests advice on planning the seige. Recently met with Count Rochambeau, hopes for aid in the form of manpower, naval support and supplies from the French. Also mentions "a secondary object, the reduction of Charles Town - Savanah." Written at "Head Quarters." On blue paper.

GLC02437.09323

February 26, 1747

Burns, William, fl. 1747

Manuscript document signed

Title: [William Burns's declaration regarding the Muscongus settlement]

Burns discusses his settlement on Samuel Waldo's Muscongus Patent (also known as the Waldo or Linconshire Patent, land in present-day Maine). Discusses improvements Burns made to a stone house, and mentions his black cattle. Burns was given command of a company of soldiers by Governor [William] Shirley, after which he and his family moved to a settlement of 40 or 50 "Protestant Familys from Germany" on the Madomock [Medomak] River. Notes that several German settlers, at Colonel Samuel Waldo's urging, joined the expedition against Cape Breton in [1745]. Asserts "That about the Middle of…

GLC02437.10410

February 26, 1747

Campbell, John, fl. 1747

Manuscript document signed

Title: [John Campbell's declaration regarding the Damariscotta River settlement]

Attests that he took up land in an area under the charge of Colonel [David] Dunbar. Dunbar was replaced by Colonel Samuel Waldo, and some families left the area while others remained. The greatest concentration of settlers dwelled in the township of Walpole, Massachusetts, where Campbell asserts "...they built houses and made some considerable Improvements in Farming and Lumbering, which all those who remained there and others that were added to the settlement of the remove aforementioned continued to do till the beginning of the Spanish War..." When war between Britain and France broke…

GLC02437.10411

1857

Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887

Engraving

Title: Decatur's Conflict with the Algerine at Tripoli

One engraving entitled "Decatur's Conflict with the Algerine at Tripoli" dated 1857. The caption notes "Reuben James interposing his head to save the life of his commander." Depicts the conflict of August 3, 1804, when Stephen Decatur Jr. Boarded a Tripolitain boat after learning that a Tripolitain Captian had shot and killed his younger brother, James Decatur. While Stephen fought with the gunboat's captain, a Tripolitain sailor tried to strike him from behind. Reuben James, one of Decatur's sailors, stepped forward and took the blow, saving him. Published by Johnson, Fry & Co. Engraving…

GLC08878.0034

1861-1877

Engraving

Title: Deceased Secretaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

One engraving entitled "Deceased Secretaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" circa 1861-1877. Portraits of Dr. Wisner, Jeremiah Evarts, Dr. Worcester, Dr. Cornelius, and Dr. Armstrong. Engraver unknown.

GLC08878.0099

1861-1877

Rogers, J. fl. 1860

Engraving

Title: Foreign Volunteers [of the American War of Independence]

One engraving entitled "Foreign Volunteers [of the American War of Independence]" circa 1861-1877. Portraits of Frederich Wilhelm ludolf Gerhard Augustin Baron von Steuben, Casimir Pulaski, Gilbert du Motier Lafayette, Tadeusz Kosciusko, and Johann DeKalb. Engraved by J. Rogers.

GLC08878.0122

23 November 1838

Marub, Alex, fl. 1838

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hugh Brady

acknowledges receipt of letter from Brady on the trial of Captain Jamieson

GLC08104.003

January 15, 1840

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hugh Brady

GLC08104.011

16 October 1838

Arthur G., fl. 1838

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hugh Brady

talks of hostility between the two nations and a building organization called the Hunters Society that wants to overthrow the government in the Canadian provinces

GLC08104.001

14 November 1838

Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hugh Brady

asks General Brady to exert vigilance when preventing American miltia from entering Canada

GLC08104.002

1815-1860

Autograph document signed

Title: [Expresses apprehension at possible rupture between United States and Empiire of Great Britain]

GLC08104.004

22 May 1839

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hugh Brady

GLC08104.007

16 October 1839

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hugh Brady

expresses hope that United States will respect British North Americans

GLC08104.008

28 October 1839

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hugh Brady

says he will see the general earlier than expected

GLC08104.009

11 November 1839

Autograph letter

Title: to Secretary of the Treasury

excerpt of a letter expressing a need for information that would counteract a potential invasion

GLC08104.010

15 July 1840

Gardner, L., fl. 1840

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Col. Love

talks of an incident in which the soldiers complained they were mistreated, says they can return and prosecute

GLC08104.012

16 June 1851

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Mary

Excerpt: 16 June 1851: "Soon after my arrival I visited the Crystal Palace. This is a miniature world, where you may see people of every nation; and their advancement in the arts may be learned from the specimens of workmanship which they are here exhibiting.""Written at Fleet Street

GLC04192.02

2 August 1852

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Mary

Excerpt: 2 August 1852: "The county was generally beautiful; many parts of it exceedingly so - naturally fertile but many parts poorly cultivated and every part filled with wretchedness, starvation and beggary - owing in part to an unjust and tyrannical system of government, systematically pursued for the last hundred years, but perhaps mainly to the miserable system of letting lands, by which the tenant can be turned out at any moment, without a care of remuneration for any improvements he may have made on the Land. Another reason of the wretched condition of many of them is their own…

GLC04192.05

16 May 1851 - 27 July 1851

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Diary

Title: Diary of John Moore

Excerpt: Diary entries 12 June 1852: "The Tower has been so often described that it is unnecessary to enter into any description of it. There is no place in the world, perhaps where one can see so many specimens of all the varieties of arms that have been used from the earliest ages, together with coats of mail and every description of defensive armor. The cell in which Sir Walter Raleigh was so long confined is shown and a gloomy looking dungeon it is. The block on which he was beheaded is still preserved. The crown jewels and regalia are also kept in an apartment of the Tower." 13…

GLC04192.06

14 July 1810

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Autograph letter signed

Title: My Dear and Beloved Son

To Benjamin Lincoln Lear

GLC07827.01

23 October 1811

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Autograph letter signed

Title: My Dear and Beloved Son

To Benjamin Lincoln Lear Small tear where seal was opened

GLC07827.02

5 June 1812

Lear, Benjamin Linclon, fl. 1812

Autograph letter signed

Title: My Dear Uncle

To Samuel Storer Esqiure

GLC07827.03