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circa 1841-1845

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Title: Resolutions and other papers from the Anti-Slavery Society in New York [Decimalized .01-.21]

Contains two letters to N. R. Chapman, who served as secretary for an Anti-Slavery Society in the Onondaga/Madison County region of New York (refer to GLC06593.20). Contains a Civil War soldier's letter noting the fall of Atlanta. Includes numerous resolutions related to the Anti-Slavery Society (possibly of which Chapman was affiliated). Anti-slavery documents mention abolitionists Gerrit Smith and James Caleb Jackson, the mutiny on board the Brig Creole (GLC06593.09), and the need to form a Liberty Party (GLC06593.20).

GLC06593

25 November 1900

Willett, Grace, fl. 1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sylvia Willett

Discusses women suffrage in Wyoming in the election of 1900. Comments that turnout among women was high, but "their voting does not help purify politics." Willett supported the candidacy of Williams Jennings Bryan. Also comments on bad weather, money available to send, illness in the family, and playing music professionally.

GLC06594

1833/03/22

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Manuscript document

Title: [Retained clerical copy of a treaty between the United States and the Ottawa Indians]

Manuscript copy of the treaty made on 18 February 1833 between the Ottawa chiefs "residing on the Indian Reserves on the Miami of Lake Erie" and George B. Porter, the United States commissioner. Outlines the cession of Ottawa land in Ohio, the establishment of a reservation, and the remuneration that will be owed. Probably a working draft prior to sending to printer.

GLC07392

1836

Field, Joseph E., fl. 1836

Pamphlet

Title: Three years in Texas

Includes a view of the Texas Revolution.

GLC07387

1839

Thompson, Henry, fl. 1839

Book

Title: Texas. Sketches of Character, Moral and Political...by Milan

GLC07388

1878/01/01

Vallarta, I.T., fl. 1878

Manuscript document

Title: Translation of Account of Relations between Mexico and Pawnee Tribes of Texas

Consists of clerical transmittal, bound with a copy of the treaty written in the same hand.

GLC07389

1834

Printed document

Title: [Advertisement for A Narrative of the Captivity & Providential Escape of Mrs. Jane Lewis]

Illustrated publication advertisement for a recently published book about Lewis experience as a captive of Chief Black Hawk during the Black Hawk War. Published in the aftermath of the war after Black Hawk was taken as a captive on a tour for the United States. The advertisement refers to the tour. An unrelated poem is printed on verso: "The Factor's Garland, or The Turkish Lady." Date inferred from the publication year of Lewis' narrative.

GLC07390

1825/08

Manuscript document

Title: Contemporary copy of Treaty of Prairie Du Chien (WI) [Schoolcraft copy]

Copy of Henry R. Schoolcraft, the 19th century scholar and ethnologist of Native Americans. Tied with green ribbon

GLC07391

1861

Pike, Albert, 1809-1891

Pamphlet

Title: Treaty with [the Confederacy and] Cherokee

Co-authored by John Ross. Treaty signed 7 October.

GLC07393

1866

Pamphlet

Title: Communication of the Delegation of the Cherokee Nation to the President...

Correspondence between John Ross, Principal Chief, and certain officers of the Rebellious States: Defending Cherokee Treaty with Confederacy; the Cherokee Constitution allowing for slavery and segregation of blacks.

GLC07384.06

1860/10/04

Ross, John, 1790-1866

Pamphlet

Title: Message of the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the National Council

Delivered October 4, 1860. Uncut.

GLC07384.04

1883/11/07

Bushyhead, Dennis W., 1826-1898

Pamphlet

Title: First Annual Message (second term)

Speech delivered at Talequah by principal chief of Cherokee Nation.

GLC07384.05

1862/03/20

Pike, Albert, 1809-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Ross re: requesting necessary papers to capture fugitive slave

The slave was wanted for the crime of horse stealing.

GLC07385.01

1862/02/20

Rector, H.M., fl. 1862

Document signed

Title: calling for Cherokee Nation to remove and deliver "Jack" to Albert Pike

"Jack a negro man...charged with horse stealing...has fled". (Extradition request?)

GLC07385.02

1836/03/07

Austin, Stephen F., 1793-1836

Pamphlet

Title: An Address delivered by ... to a very large audience

Speech given in Louisville, Ky., to gain support for the Texas Revolution.

GLC07386

14 December 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Printed document signed

Title: [Authority to affix the seal of the Unites States to a treaty with the Tabeguache Band of Ute Indians]

Partially printed authority for a treaty concluded on 7 October 1863.

GLC07394

17 January 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Authority to affix the seal to treaty with Northwestern Shoshonee Indians].

Lincoln authorizes a treaty with the Northwestern Bands of Shoshonee Indians dated July 30, 1863. The treaty was made at Box Elder, Utah Territory. Brigadier General P. Edward Connor, commander of the military district of Utah, and Commissioner James Duane Doty, governor and acting superintendent of Indian affairs in Utah Territory, represented the United States. A chief named Pokatello led several chiefs representing the Shoshonee. The treaty secured peace, upheld the July 2, 1863 Treaty of Fort Bridger, increased the band's annuity, and stated the boundaries of the band's territory.

GLC07395

1870

Book

Title: Treaties between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation, from 1785

Was written while it was Cherokee Nation Territory.

GLC07396

7 July 1832 - 11 January 1839

Conyers, Thomas, 1795-1879

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Soldier letterbook from the Black Hawk War]

Letterbook of Major Conyers, commander of the mounted Detachment from 1st Regiment Missouri Volunteers during the Black Hawk War. This bound volume contains orders, memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence, company appraisements and accounts. Records communications from Indian agent Hughes on Platte regarding Keokuk and fur trader and Indian agent Joshua Pilcher on regarding Chief Black Hawk. Also provides details of Iowa scouting expeditions from Fort Pike on the Des Moines River and from Fort Madison. The first leaves and pastedowns contain notes from the early 1840s,…

GLC07381

1886

Bourke, John G., 1846-1896

Book signed

Title: An Apache campaign in the Sierra Madre: An account of the expedition in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883

Published by Charled Scribner's Sons. Dedication included on the first blank page to C. M. Lanitis Jr. from Mrs. Lieutenant Seyburn, May 1886. Describes a campaign led by General George Crook against the Chiricahua Apache Tribe in 1883. In the preface, the author indicates that sections of this book were originally published in serial form in Boston's Outing Magazine.

GLC07380.02

1838

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Pamphlet

Title: Speeches given in Congress re: resolutions of seven state legislatures

Discusses annexation of Texas. Collateral to GLC 567 Adams fragment, a draft of the preface to this compilation of speeches given June 16- July 7 in the House. The fragment was expanded in details on pp. 6-8.

GLC07397