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Appointing Tobias Lear as Consul to Algiers

GLC07658

to [Sally Fairfax] re: requesting herbal remedies and recipes

GLC07663

to James E. Montgomery

Written by Admiral Farragut to Major Montgomery as Acting Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. Says Montgomery's note of that morning arrived as he was going ashore to get "a small Brass" cannon at Fort Morgan that Captain Williamson promised him...

GLC07665

to unknown

Sends copies of "the act for establishing the...permanent seat of the government of the United States" in Washington, D.C. and an act providing for the payment of invalid pensioners (the actual copies are not included). The text of this letter is...

GLC07668

to Pierre C. L'Enfant

Requests a meeting to go over some papers Jefferson received from President Washington, so that the relationship between the commissioners superintending the building of Washington, D.C. and L'Enfant could be "entirely understood." L'Enfant designed...

GLC07669

Act for the Better Securing the Dependency of...America

GLC07655

Draft response to notification of election as President

"I accept the office given me by the free & unbiased suffrage, of a virtuous people, with feelings of the highest gratitude."

GLC07657

to Gov. Hancock re: praise for the Republican form of government

"The result of my reflections on republics are, that they are more productive of happiness, and an enlargement of the human mind, than any other sort of Government."

GLC07659

to Sir Charles Morgan re: current political revolutions in Europe

GLC07660

to Nathanael Greene re: news of the Peace Treaty

"I should think it prudent to maintain so respectable a force in Georgia and South Carolina as would discourage any attempt on them fin case the Negotiations should prove abortive."

GLC07661

to "Madam" re: descriptions of Paris and the opening of States General

"I had the Honor to be present on the fifth of this Month at the opening of the States General. A Spectacle more solemn to the mind, than gaudy to the Eye."

GLC07662

Log of Whaler "Hamilton"

Portrait of the Lincoln Assassination conspirator after his capture. By Gardner, printed circa 1880's.

GLC07664

to Committee of Correspondence for the Colony of Virginia

Co-signed by Samuel Rhoads and Joseph Galloway on behalf of the committee. Galloway was Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly and would eventually become a well known Loyalist after his Plan of Union was rejected. References their letter asking the...

GLC07666

to Timothy Pickering

Writes to Pickering, who was his successor as Quartermaster of the Continental Army when Greene took command of West Point just after Benedict Arnold's treason. Expresses his dismay at the state of the garrison at West Point and requests supplies....

GLC07667

Address of House of Representatives to Governor Bernard re: charter rights

GLC07654.27

List of papers received by Grenville re: Stamp Act

GLC07654.28

Account of proceedings . . . on the affair of compensation

GLC07654.29

to George Grenville re: Halifax Admiralty Court

GLC07654.30

to Joseph Harrison re: dissatisfaction with Massachusetts Assembly

Written at Grosvenor Square

GLC07654.31

to [George Grenville?] re: unrest in Charleston, S.C.

GLC07654.32

List of papers received by Grenville re: Stamp Act

GLC07654.33

Newspaper clipping re: anniversary of hanging of Stamp Tax Collector

GLC07654.34

to George Grenville re: Colden's conduct during the Stamp Act uprisings

GLC07654.35

to George Grenville re: update of Assembly proceeding against Colden

GLC07654.36

Copy of a circular letter to colonial governments re: taxes imposed on colonies

GLC07654.37