1783-1815

Manuscript document

Title: List of those persons that are suppos'd to be entitled to Meadow

Title taken from docket. Lists 47 original people who were entitled to meadow, apparently on Knox's Maine lands. A second column lists their representative if the original person has moved or died. Several names have numbers written to them. Docket ends with the sentence "NB all of 'em must produce their Deeds for our satisfaction."

GLC02437.08384

February 11, 1776

Harrod, Benjamin, 1741-1793

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request for rent from William Knox]

Harrod asks that William Knox pay £10 for the quarterly rent to his agent Joseph Bliss. The rent was due on 25 January. This could possibly be rent on Henry Knox's bookstore, which William was watching while Henry was fighting.

GLC02437.08385

9 August 1777-13 September 1777

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [List of accounts]

9 August received 200 dollars from General Nathanael Greene. Most of the list is for payment of room and board. Also was keeping track of money borrowed.

GLC02437.08418

15 July 1778

Amory, Jonathan, fl. 1778-1779

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for William Knox]

Notes that William Knox paid £12.10 to John Amory, Jr. for three months rent.

GLC02437.08444

18 December 1802

Manuscript document

Title: [Ledger]

Ledger booklet with a list of names, towns, dates and amounts. Appears to be related to mortgages.

GLC02437.08792

7 October 1804

Manuscript document

Title: [Notes]

The front page is handwritten and discusses mortgages from 23-28 November 1801. The back is a portion of a printed document possibly relating to a land deed within Massachusetts.

GLC02437.08793

5 January-4 November 1803

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt]

Receipt for a mortgage from William Drinkwater for Nathaniel Pendleton. Also includes another note of receipt on the verso, dated 4 November of the same year for $3.50 of interest from Pendleton, signed by Drinkwater.

GLC02437.08811

circa 1820

Hewson, John, 1744-1821

Autograph letter

Title: to Rufus Lincoln [incomplete]

Undated, circa date inferred from other letters in the collection. Note in pencil in different hand says page 13 is the last, but it is missing here. Pages numbered 5-12 so beginning and end of letter are missing. After escaping to New Jersey, probably in October 1778, from a reference in another letter, they went back to pick up their fellow escapees who could not swim and paid their helpers with the canoe they stole. They were forced to keep moving and were helped by farmers who supported the Revolution. Says this took place in Monmouth County where "General How made so many wigs by his ill…

GLC03849.08

26 September 1871

Remington, Caroline, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document

Title: [Lease agreement for 48 South Howard Street]

Copy of an agreement to lease a property in Baltimore owned by the Remingtons to Davidson, Clark & Co., a wholesale liquor business, for one year at a rent of $1500. On reverse are notes dated 26 and 27 December 1873 extending the lease of the property. Another note dated 26 February 1874 terminates the lease.

GLC03545.24.17

25 March 1859

Read, Sophia C., fl. 1859-1864

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Assignment of lease]

Documents the lease of some property in Baltimore from Sophia C. Read to Caroline W. Remington for the sum of $14,400. Describes the property in question. Daniel Myers signed as a witness.

GLC03545.24.18

1 October 1864

Remington, Caroline, fl. 1864-1873

Printed document signed

Title: Lease between Caroline W. Remington and Capt. S. H. Dunan

Partially printed document leasing no. 48 South Howard Street in Baltimore, owned by Caroline W. Remington, to Captain S. H. Dunan for $100 per month. The lease is to go into effect 1 October 1864.

GLC03545.24.19

7 November 1871

Remington, William, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document

Title: [Lease of 46 South Howard Street]

Copy of the lease agreement for a property in Baltimore owned by William and Caroline W. Remington to Jacob Saunders & Sons for $1500 per year.

GLC03545.24.21

22 August 1871

Remington, William, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document

Title: [Lease of 46 Bolton Street]

Copy of the lease agreement for a property in Baltimore owned by William and Caroline W. Remington to Joseph Packard, Jr. at the rate of $650 per year. Small piece in the upper left corner of the first page torn out. No text loss.

GLC03545.24.22

11 November 1867

Remington, William, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document

Title: [Lease of 48 South Howard Street]

Copy of the lease agreement for a property in Baltimore owed by William and Caroline W. Remington to Gray Richards for three years at $1100 per year. Note on page two in purple ink dated 11 March 1869 states the lease has been turned over to John Cugle.

GLC03545.24.23

25 March 1859 - February 1861

Prevost, James Charles, 1810-1891

Manuscript document

Title: Search of title of William and Caroline Remington

Partially printed document showing the leased properties owned by William and Caroline Remington in Baltimore. Includes the names of the various renters, the lease dates, the addresses, and the cost. On paper printed with Pennington & Read, Attorneys at Law, Baltimore.

GLC03545.24.24

February 13, 1861

Read, Sophia C., fl. 1859-1864

Manuscript document

Title: Lease from Sophia C. Read to William & Caroline W. Remington

Copy of a lease agreement for a property in Baltimore called Oak Grove for one year at a rate of $600 per year. Witnessed by William George Read.

GLC03545.24.27

11 November 1864

Keen, & Hagerty, fl. 1864

Manuscript document

Title: [Payment agreement for lease of 48 South Howard Street]

Marked duplicate. Certifies payment of $94 per month will be paid to William and Caroline W. Remington by Keen & Hagerty for the rental of a property in Baltimore, Maryland. Large piece has been torn out of left side of the page.

GLC03545.24.28

31 March 1868

Freeland, Thomas H., fl. 1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Remington

Writes to Remington, his lessor, that he needs to vacate the property on Bolton Street, Baltimore, in a few weeks and asks to break their lease contract. States that he will pay Remington $100 and will assist in renting the property to another.

GLC03545.24.31

January 30, 1864

Watson, Henry, fl. 1864-1867

Manuscript document signed

Title: Lease from Henry Watson to Caroline W. Remington

Lease agreement for a lot on Decker Street in Baltimore. Describes the property. Signed as a witness by W. N. Haynard. With 50 cent U.S. inter revenue stamp on first page.

GLC03545.24.32

1 April 1873

Remington, William, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document

Title: [Lease agreement for 52 Bolton Street]

Copy of the lease agreement for a property in Baltimore owned by William and Caroline W. Remington to Henry Moore at a rate of $600 per year. Note on reverse dated 5 October 1874 signed by the Remingtons states the contract has been canceled in consideration of a sum of $200 given to them by Henry Moore.

GLC03545.24.33

11 November 1864

Remington, William, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document

Title: [Sale to Keen & Hagerty of Captain S. H. Dunan's lease]

Copy of the sale of a lease on a warehouse at 48 South Howard Street in Baltimore owned by William and Caroline W. Remington.

GLC03545.24.35

August 1866

Remington, William, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document

Title: [Continuation of the lease on "Oak Grove"]

Agreement to continue the lease on a property in Baltimore called Oak Grove owned by Sophia C. Read. Also certifies that Read will execute a deed of 25 feet of land on Remington Avenue provided that the Remington's erect a house on a property east of Remington Avenue and north of Linden St. States that Read will loan the Remingtons $6000 to do this.

GLC03545.24.36

14 July 1868

Remington, William, fl. 1864-1873

Manuscript document

Title: [Lease contract for 46 Bolton Street]

Copy of a lease agreement for a property in Baltimore owned by William and Caroline W. Remington to John J. Hooff for three years at a rate of $750 a year. Piece torn out of upper left corner of first page where there was possibly a stamp.

GLC03545.24.37

circa 1860-1880

Autograph letter signed

Title: Collection of 7 miscellaneous items related to William Remington

Consists of two envelopes addressed to William Remington, two separate pages with notes, one piece of a map showing streets and property lots (possibly in Baltimore), half of a lease document, and two notecards pasted together with a summary of a story about Medora, marked "Medora by Grenough, Boston 1883." Possibly referring to a sculpture by Horatio Greenough titled, "Medora."

GLC03545.24.39

20 May 1864

Read, Sophia C., fl. 1859-1864

Manuscript document

Title: Assignment of mortgage: Sophia C. Read to Benjamin C. Barroll

Copy of the mortgage agreement. As Read was living in Gravesend, England at the time, the document is signed by a public notary from England stating she appeared. Barroll assigned the mortgage to John G. Lantz on 4 June 1864. Samuel Spier signed as a witness. With United States inter revenue foreign exchange stamps and life insurance stamps.

GLC03545.24.01