10 July 1882

Autograph letter signed

Title: to My Dear Cousin

Letter addressed "My Dear Cousin." Refers to the death of Amanda and how distraught "Poor Old Aunt Phebe" must be. Says they are cutting wheat "...with one of those large binding machines." Reports that "...Poor blind Mrs. Praddy's daughter...drowned away from home on the Mississippi River." Signature on letter is L.M.H.

GLC03523.10.193

December 31, 1793

Autograph document

Title: [Questions about the District of Maine]

List of 43 questions about Maine. They ask about population, farm land, climate, animals, types of crops, timber, and navigable waters. Wants to know what Maine can produce for the West Indies trade.

GLC02437.06014

4 August 1864

Morey, Charles C., fl. 1830-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to parents

Reports on his first day of service as 1st Lieutenant of Company "C" of the 2nd Regiment of Vermont Infantry. Encamped near Brickeystown, Maryland. Mentions Captain [Nathaniel] Wales' injury during the Battle of the Wilderness. Discusses a delay in receiving mail. Comments on sister's abstinancy during a time of sickness. Describes rebel pillaging of local flouring mill: "...near here is quite an extensive flouring mill and the owner says that the rebels took about $18.00 worth of flour, wheat and other property from him but he says he is willing to lose it all if we can only accomplish our…

GLC03523.18.21

November 1726

Hathaway, Thomas, fl. 1717-1726

Document signed

Title: [Report of a meeting held at the town house].

George Badcock and Henry Tucker have asked the township's permission to build a grist mill. After examining the records of the township and on consultation with Benjamin Hammond's survey, it is determined that title to the land is clear. Attested as a true copy signed as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.045

18 August 1864

Henry, Josiah E., 1840-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John and Sophia Henry

Henry writes to his parents from Knoxville, on his way to the regiment. Reports there are 400 convalescents marching with him. Mentions how ripe the fruit is. Comments that the farmers are thrashing their wheat and doing their fall plowing. First page of the letter has an emblem and the words to the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home."

GLC03523.07.27

13 October 1862

Ticknor, Horace L., 1836-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his family

Ticknor writes to his family from Camp Dennison in Ohio. Mentions he's recovered from an illness and is ready to return to his regiment at Camp Corinth, Mississippi. Comments how pleasant the weather is and the wheat crop is ready. Informs he's had his "likeness" taken and will send it in a few days. Expresses his desire to come and see them as soon as the war is over "...if nothing hapens to me."

GLC03523.30.07

23 April 1861

Carey, Henry G., fl. 1839-1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his uncle [Galloway Cheston]

Reports on the city of Baltimore at the beginning of the Civil War. Writes that the city has been much more quiet, "tho' the streets are full of uniforms." He tried to send flour to someone and was informed that "no flour or provisions of any kind to be sent from the city." States that he took the silver and put it in the bank. Asks if he wants to keep his horses in town.

GLC03228.01

25 April 1861

Carey, Henry G., fl. 1839-1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Galloway Cheston

Reports to his uncle on the city of Baltimore at the beginning of the Civil War. States that everything is quiet. Asks him for some financial advice and states that there is no news in copper. Encloses some letters from others. Remarks upon the economy and rising prices in Baltimore, "No business of any kind doing, partners all drilling in the 'Home Guard' clerks in the 'Maryland Gds.' Flour $10 per bbl for family. Potatoes $1.00 to $1.25 per bus. I don't know what the poor people will do if this continues."

GLC03228.04

1783/01/09

Tilghman, Edward, 1713-1786

Document signed

Title: [Contract for wheat]

Also signed by Andrew Wallace. Stipulates that Tilghman will deliver five hundred bushels of wheat to Wallace and outlines the details of the transaction.

GLC02503.21

1805/08/17

Thornton, William, fl. 1805-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: praise for sending grain to relieve hunger in Algiers

Thornton praises Lear: "I cannot express the satisfaction I feel at the worthy Act you have done in sending Grain to Algiers when they were in destress [sic], & when it would have made you a very large Fortune you have done it on the part of Government . . . . Nothing can more reconcile the Barbarians to us than to shew such disinterested Conduct." Dr. Thornton treated Lear as a patient, and was also a prominent architect and inventor. Attached to GLC 2794.111.

GLC02794.094

1821/04/24

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to an unidentified recipient re: business affairs & profitability of his estate

Written as President

GLC02793.015

1712/07/17

Livingston, Gilbert, 1718-1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: account of wheat sent to Robert Livingston

Gilbert forwards his father an account of wheat that was already sent to him, and inquires as to whether he would like to order more from a different supplier. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.00930

1713/05/08

Bayeuse, Thomas, fl. 1713

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: receipt of shipment

Bayeuse acknowledges receipt of a shipment of flour and discusses the payments that must be made. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.00957

1719/03

Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728

Manuscript document

Title: "Wheat from the Palatyns & our sloop . . . 443 1/2 shepels"

Lists the wheat collected 5 different tracts of Livingston's land.

GLC03107.01260

1719/04/08

Jay, Augustus, fl. 1711-1725

Manuscript document

Title: Account of Robert Livingston and Augustus Jay

Record of flour and nails Livingston sold to Jay.

GLC03107.01261

1769/08/26

Livingston, Robert Cambridge, 1742-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: trade and business

Robert Cambridge discusses trading wheat, flour, and butter, and condoles his father on a loss of profits with his furnace. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.03211

1769/12/31

Livingston, Robert III, 1708-1790

Manuscript document

Title: Sales of sundry goods for the account of Robert Livingston, Jr.

P.1 records sales of bees was, bran, butter, hides, wheat, and skins on 31 December 1769. P.2 records sale of pigg iron for the account of Robert Livingston, and also an account of outstanding debts.

GLC03107.03222

1770/01/29

Livingston, Robert Cambridge, 1742-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: trading losses

Robert Cambridge describes some serious trade losses, and states that he will stick to trading dry goods from now on. He also advises his father on purchasing a land patent, and discusses the value of wheat at the moment.

GLC03107.03230

1770/02/26

Livingston, Robert Cambridge, 1742-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston, Jr.re: the prosperity of Robert, Jr.'s mills

Robert Cambridge congratulates his father on maintaining his mills throughout a period of "downfall and destruction." Preceded by a letter dated 19 February 1770, in which Robert Cambridge discusses the sale of his father's sloop, and also mentions that the crops in France and England have been particularly abundant this year. With docket and address leaf on p.4.

GLC03107.03233

1770/04/26

Livingston, Robert Cambridge, 1742-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: offer to sell wheat

Robert Cambridge states that a large shipment of wheat is expected, and he wonders if Robert, Jr. would care to purchase it.

GLC03107.03240

1771/05/17

Livingston, Robert Cambridge, 1742-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: shipment of wheat

Robert Cambridge encourages his father to accept a shipment of wheat that he believes will sell at a good price.

GLC03107.03257

1722/01/14

Slater, John, fl. 1722

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston re: threshing corn and wheat

Slater writes that a certain old woman who is in Livingston's debt, can not leave her sick husband to pay the debt, but promises to do so eventually. Slater also informs Livingston of the amounts of corn and wheat he and some others have threshed. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.01414

1775/05/29

Livingston, Robert Cambridge, 1742-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: advice to sell flour quickly

Robert Cambridge writes that he has sold the last of his flour, and explains: "I thought it too dangerous to keep produce on hand at present it being most probable that a termination of our Commerce will take place about the middle of July and therefore I don't think it would be improper to send all the Flour you have by you down as soon as the Sloop returns." He also discusses the mounting tensions with Great Britain and notes, "The maneuvres of the Continental Congress are secret, but people imagine they are preparing or devising ways and means to carry on an opposition to parliament."

GLC03107.03332

1775/05/13

Livingston, Robert Cambridge, 1742-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: trading and business arrangments

Robert Cambridge urges his father to send him all his flour and wheat, as he believes that their right to export and trade it will be curtailed in the near future. He also mentions a rumor that regiments of 2000 to 3000 soldiers are being sent to New York to defend the province against British troops that are said to be moving in that direction as well. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.03334

1775/11/20

Livingston, Henry, 1753-1823

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: selling flour

Henry writes that he got the best price he could for his father's flour, and discusses the settlement of their accounts.

GLC03107.03336