1776/05/06

Borden, Joseph, 1719-1791

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for 70 pounds sent from the Provincial Congress for paying a detachment of militia]

Witnessed by the Committee of Safety. Note on verso indicates that the detachment was sent to Egg Harbor, New Jersey on 6 June 1776.

GLC02503.02

1775/11/24

Bowler, Metcalf, fl. 1726-1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Clarke

Notes receiving 500 pounds to pay troops. Indicates that the money is nearly exhausted and he has yet to pay some of the Minutemen. Discusses other plans related to the defense of the colonies.

GLC02503.03.01

1778/10/23

Bryan, George, 1731-1791

Document signed

Title: [Order to carry out a death sentence against two convicted criminals]

Order made under Bryan's authority and signed by "Jy Mattlock" as secretary. Orders Sheriff James Claypoole to carry out death sentences for Abraham Carlisle and John Roberts on 4 November 1778. Issued by the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, "under the hand of the Honorable George Bryan Esquire Vice President." Features paper seal of the state of Pennsylvania.

GLC02503.04

1764/01/28

Cotton, John, 1712-1789

Printed document signed

Title: [Massachusetts-Bay order to pay William Angier]

Partially printed order to pay 1500 pounds for Angier's "Sufferings in the year 1759 - as mentd in his Petn." Authorized by order of the governor, Sir Francis Bernard. Cotton was then deputy secretary and would become secretary to the Stamp Act Congress the following year.

GLC02503.06

1765/01/16

Leslie, Thomas, fl. 1765

Printed document signed

Title: [Authorizing William Cochburn to act as Thomas Leslie's attorney]

Witnessed and signed by John Cruger and David Thomson. Partially printed document in which Thomas Leslie grants power of attorney to William Cochburn. Leslie needed Cochburn to help him obtain the fifty acres of land he had been granted for his service in Great Britain's army.

GLC02503.07

1788/04/20

Dyer, Eliphalet, 1721-1807

Autograph note signed

Title: to John Lawrence

Orders Lawrence to pay Peter Webb six pounds and charge the same to the salary of the judges of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Dyer had been a member of the Stamp Act Congress. Lawrence served as treasurer of Connecticut from 1769 to 1789.

GLC02503.08

1776/07/30

Fisher, Hendrick, 1697-1779

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for sixty pounds and six shillings]

Received from John Dumis. Fisher receives the money "as a Commissioner" from New Jersey and promises "to account to the Congress for the same."

GLC02503.09

1801/10/09

Gadsden, Christopher, 1724-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Leroy, Bayard & McEvers

Sends a bill of lading for his friend, Henry Middleton. Gadsden had been a member of the Stamp Act Congress.

GLC02503.10

1759/11/15

Lispenard, Leonard, 1716-1790

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for 501 pounds from Charles Williams and Thomas Jones]

Money received from the late Joseph Munay, by order of his will.

GLC02503.11

1764/04/12

Livingston, Robert R., 1718-1775

Autograph document signed

Title: [The Petition of Michael Theyser of the City of New York, Innkeeper]

Deposition accusing Joseph Northrop and several others of an assault on Theyser while attempting to unlawfully search his inn for a runaway (possibly an enslaved person).

GLC02503.12

1775/04/26

Document signed

Title: [South Carolina 50 pound note also signed by Henry Middleton]

Signed by Thomas Lynch, Sr., Henry Middleton, and two others, B. Nuger and one other (illegible). Number 170. Lynch had been a member of the Stamp Act Congress.

GLC02503.13

1754 ca.

Murrdock, William, fl. 1754

Signature

Title: [Signature of William Murrdock]

Clipped signature.

GLC02503.14

1766/06/18

Ogden, Robert, 1716-1787

Autograph document signed

Title: [Writ for seizure of goods]

An order to seize the property of Joseph Budd of Newark, New Jersey, pursuant to a judgment against him in favor of Charles Gilliam and Joseph Headley. Authorized by Judge Ogden, who had served in the Stamp Act Congress the previous year. A note on the verso indicates what was seized and when the writ was recorded at the secretary's office in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

GLC02503.15

1783/04/04

Otis, James, 1725-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for ten shillings]

Received from the treasury of Massachusetts for an unspecified reason.

GLC02503.16

1754/04/20

Partridge, Oliver, 1712-1792

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certification of the attendance of Thomas Hubbard, Speaker of the House]

Signed as clerk.

GLC02503.17

1770/04/07

Ringgold, Thomas, 1715-1772

Autograph document signed

Title: to the Commissioners

Recommends support for William Ruth's application for a loan of $1000 to be held in Robert Walters' security. Cites their land holdings as reason to support the loan.

GLC02503.18

1763/03/15

Rowland, David S. (David Sherman), 1719-1794

Document signed

Title: [Arbitration in the case of defamation between Micah Perry and Solomon Sturgis]

Also signed by John Read and David Allen, as co-arbitrators. Awards a judgment of fifteen pounds to the petitioners.

GLC02503.19

1756/10/11

Ruggles, Timothy, 1711-1795

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certification that Cornelius Vander Barrak delivered medical supplies]

The supplies were for "the sick and well People of Col. Thatcher & Colonel Ruggles's Regiment" during the Seven Years' War.

GLC02503.20

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

1761/03/10

Ward, Henry, 1732-1797

Autograph document signed

Title: to Thomas Richardson

Relays order by the Rhode Island general assembly to pay Henry Paget fifteen pounds out of the general treasury. Signed as secretary and as a witness to the order.

GLC02503.22

1897/03/22

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Warner re: contribution to Bimetallic Union

Written on personal stationery. Concerns splitting royalties to benefit the Union.

GLC02504.04

1827/06/11

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Messrs. Gales & Seaton re: a speech

Asking Gales & Seaton to include his speech. With a postscript on page 2.

GLC02504.15

1848/12/02

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Millard Fillmore re: information on state prisons

GLC02504.16

1842/05/11

Frelinghuysen, Theodore, fl. 1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander M. Carter (et al.) re: declining a speaking invitation

GLC02504.18

1814/03/08

McArthur, Duncan, 1772-1839

Letter signed

Title: to John Armstrong

Writes to Secretary of War Armstrong to inform him that since he has not received orders and has finished as a witness in the trial of General William Hull, he will travel to Ohio. McArthur was then a brigadier general. Hull had bloodlessly surrendered Fort Detroit in August, 1812, during the War of 1812, and was charged with cowardice and treason.

GLC02504.30