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to Elias Dayton

Written by Captain Tucker to Colonel Dayton. References Dayton's letter of 23 April 1776. Says he will lay his recommendations for promotions before the New Jersey Committee of Safety. Says he mentioned Captains Dickinson, Potter, and Bloomfield in...

GLC02500.11

to David D. Porter re: southerners moving to Texas

Sherman writes that the enemy "are all moving to Texas with their negroes. God grant all may go there and that our government will open the back door wide and promise to let them stay there in peace." 1 black and white seated engraving of Sherman...

GLC02501

[Proclamation urging Kentuckians to support the Confederacy]

Proclamation that urges residents of Kentucky to support the invading Confederate Army. Smith tells Kentuckians that his troops "come not as invadors, but liberators...to strike off the chains which are being riveted upon you." Promises a just...

GLC02502

Stamp Act Congress: 22 letters and documents by members [decimalized]

GLC02503

to unknown

Forwards a list of prices and mentions the sale of a schooner, containing molasses and rum that had been taken by one of their privateers.

GLC02503.01

[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

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

[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...

GLC02503.04

to John Armstrong

Reports the appointment of Nicholas Fitzsimons as the keeper of the hospital on Province Island (also called State Island). Bryan had been a member of the Stamp Act Congress. Armstrong was secretary of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.

GLC02503.05

[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...

GLC02503.06

[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...

GLC02503.07

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

[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

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

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

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

GLC02503.11

[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

[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

[Signature of William Murrdock]

Clipped signature.

GLC02503.14

[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...

GLC02503.15

[Receipt for ten shillings]

Received from the treasury of Massachusetts for an unspecified reason.

GLC02503.16

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

Signed as clerk.

GLC02503.17

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

[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

[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

[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