3 August 1771

Verger, Rafael, fl. 1771

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Manuel L. Casa Fonda (in Spanish)

Report on new missions in Monterey. Includes physical conditions of the buildings, abilities of missionaries, obstacles due to local resistance among Indians, settlers and California ranchers.

GLC06297

circa 1863-1865

Bogert, John A., fl. 1863-1865

Header Record

Title: [Collection of John A. Bogert, 103rd Regiment, United States Colored Troops] [decimalized]

GLC06298

1845-1849

Porterfield, George A., 1822-1919

Diary

Title: Mexican War and post-war diary

Part one, crudely bound, includes vignettes about people Porterfield encountered, a pen and ink sketch of Rancho Buena Vista, and a rudimentary genealogy. Part two, unbound, begins in April 1848 and records his travels and activities after the war ends. Mentions being in love with Miss Ybarra and is saddened to leave. By September 1849 he has become the editor of the Gazette in Martinsburg and is studying to become a lawyer. He is relieved his wife, possibly Miss Ybarra, is enjoying living in the United States. Part three consists of a receipt, a list of deceased relatives, a note…

GLC06299

1810/03/23

Cordero, Antonio, ?-1823

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Judicial Santa Rosa

re: planned uprising against the crown. Cordero was the Mayor of Monclavia, Coahuila and Texas. Warns of an uprising planned by discontent Mexicans, French and Americans against the Spanish Crown.

GLC06301.01

31 July 1827

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Document signed

Title: [Patent for Simeon Brown's invention for moving brick, stone, or wooden buildings with the chimneys, furniture, and families therein]

Signed by Adams as President. Countersigned by Henry Clay as Secretary of State and William Wirt as Attorney General. Contains a seal and faded red ribbon.

GLC06237

6 July 1802

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: [Patent for Edward West's improvement, being a machine for cutting and heading nails]

Signed by Thomas Jefferson as President. Countersigned by James Madison as Secretary of State and Levi Lincoln as Attorney General. West's written description of his invention is signed by Andrew Holmes and Lewis Sanders as witnesses. Contains a paper seal and faded white ribbon. Several unattached ribbon scraps accompany this document.

GLC06238

18 March 1818

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Document signed

Title: [Patent for John Babcock's improvement in printer's ball stocks]

Signed by Monroe as President. Countersigned by John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State and William Wirt as Attorney General. Babcock's description (page two) countersigned by R. J. Ingersoll and William Scott as witnesses. Contains a covered seal and faded white ribbon.

GLC06239

5 April 1821

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Document signed

Title: [Patent for James Morgan's improvement in warping, dressing, and weaving cotton goods by water or other power]

Signed by Monroe as President. Countersigned by John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State and William Wirt as Attorney General. Contains a seal and red ribbon.

GLC06240

1880

Workingmen's Party of California

Pamphlet

Title: Chinatown declared a nuisance!

Attacks both the Democratic and Republican Parties for not stopping Chinese immigration, but reserves special vitriol for Ulysses S. Grant. Includes notes from a Board of Health meeting describing sub-par living conditions and rampant disease. Part three includes an address by Mayor Kalloch on how to clean parts of the city using the Street Department and installing proper sewerage. Part four is an investigation of the anti-Chinese Council, the Workingmen's Party of California (W.P.C.). Lastly, a list of grievances in Chinatown.

GLC06232.03

1835

Thomas, William, ?-1836

Book signed

Title: The enemies of the Constitution discovered; or, an inquiry into the origin and tendency of popular violence...

(title continues)... containing a complete and circumstantial account of the unlawful proceedings at the City of Utica, October 21st, 1835; the dispersion of the State Anti-Slavery Convention by the agitators, the destruction of a democratic press and of the causes which led thereto. Together with a concise treatise on the practice of the court of His Honor Judge Lynch. Accompanied with numerous highly interesting and important documents. Published by Leavitt, Lord, & Co. Author (Thomas, according to Library of Congress) writes under the pseudonym "Defensor." Signed in pencil several…

GLC06232.04

1857

Long, John Dixon, 1817-1894

Book

Title: Pictures of slavery in church and state; including personal reminiscences, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc. etc...

(title continues)... with an appendix, containing the views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on slavery. Published by Long, an abolitionist and minister of the Philadelphia annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In conclusion, declares "On the forehead of slavery, as it exists in the Southern States of the American Union, and as I have faintly endeavored to picture it in these pages, may be inscribed these burning words of terrible significance, from the Book of Revelation: Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth." Contains the…

GLC06232.05

1799/01/15

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the inspectors of the state-prison [New York prison reform]

Printed by Loring Andrews.

GLC06232.06

18 November 1858

Vermont, General Assembly, House of Representatives, 1858

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the select committee on slavery, the Dred Scott decision, and the action of the Federal Government thereon, submitted Thursday, Nov. 18, 1858.

Printed by Eliakim Persons Walton. "We plant ourselves, then, on this Constitution, and there we are determined to stand, firmly, unflinchingly, unmoved and unterrified by the combined assaults of Federal or of the Slave Power, whether manifested in fugitive or Nebraska Acts, Presidential Proclamations or Dred Scott decisions."

GLC06232.07

1866

Pamphlet

Title: The New Orleans riot. Its official history.

Opens with the statement "It was no Riot- It was an Absolute Massacre by the Police- A Murder Perpetrated by the Mayor." Includes dispatches pertaining to the riot from Albert Voorhies, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana; Andrew Herron, Louisiana Attorney General; President Andrew Johnson; Edward Davis Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General; Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War, and General Ulysses S. Grant, among others. Contains newspaper reports on the event from the New York Tribune and the New York Times. The final page contains a Tribune report stating "We must convince the SOUTH…

GLC06232.08

1 December 1832

Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834

Pamphlet

Title: To the people of the state of South-Carolina.

Denounces the nullification ordinance passed by South Carolina on 24 November. Begins by stating, "The ordinance passed by your Convention at Columbia, a few days since, as the supreme law of the land, is the grave, not the bridal chamber of Liberty." Disbound.

GLC06232.09

1861

Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884

Pamphlet

Title: The abolition of slavery: the right of the government under the war power.

Printed by Wallcut. Stitched. Prints extracts from the speech of John Quincy Adams, delivered in House of Representatives on 14 and 15 April 1842 on the War with Great Britain and Mexico. Contains a reprint of a letter by Joshua Reed Giddings submitted to the New York Tribune arguing that fugitive slaves from Confederate owners should not be sent back as they would be lending help to their owners who are in rebellion against the government. Includes other editorials and essays on this topic.

GLC06232.10

1861

May, Samuel, 1810-1899

Pamphlet

Title: The fugitive slave law and its victims.

Printed by the American Anti-slavery Society. No. 15 of American Anti-Slavery Tracts. Pages are separated from binding. Contains an Essex Institute stamp. Small burn mark on front cover.

GLC06232.11

1842

Peters, Richard, 1780-1848

Book

Title: Report of the case of Edward Prigg against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States at January term, 1842.

In which it was decided that all the laws of the several states relative to fugitive slaves are unconstitutional and void; and that Congress has the exclusive power of legislation on the subject of fugitive slaves escaping into other states. By Richard Peters, reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. Printed by L. Johnson. Cover is fragile, consisting of green wrapper.

GLC06232.12

1805

Alexander, Ann Tuke, 1767-1849

Pamphlet

Title: An address to the inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina.

"I lament- exceedingly lament, that a custom, so barbarous as well as so repugnant to every principle of humanity and justice, as the African Slave-Trade, should be continued in this or any other nation." Printed by Kimber, Conrad, & Co. Wrapper is extremely fragile. Bound with string.

GLC06232.13

1865

Claxton, James S., fl. 1865

Pamphlet

Title: The African's right to citizenship.

Printed by James S. Claxton. With original blue wrappers. Stitched as issued. Covers "The right of individuals of any race, subject to a well-defined limitation, to inhabit the country of their choice." and "The inconsistency of a Democracy which excludes them from citizenship for any other cause than their inability to exercise the privilege of the elective franchise with discretion."

GLC06232.14

May 1863

Educational Commission for Freedmen (Boston, Mass.)

Pamphlet

Title: First annual report of the educational commission for freedmen.

Printed by Prentiss & Deland. Discusses the Port Royal Experiment, in which former slaves successfully worked on land abandoned by plantation owners on islands off the coast of South Carolina. Includes a report of the committee of teachers sent to Port Royal: "The instruction most needed by the blacks was not in the knowledge of school books, but in that which should lead them to appreciate the advantages of civilized life, to relinquish many of the habits and customs of slavery, and to learn the duties and responsibilities of free men." John Albion Andrew was chosen as President of…

GLC06232.15

1861-1865 circa

Stager, Anson, 1825-1885

Manuscript

Title: Cipher for telegraphic correspondence

Printed book with manuscript annotations indicating classified code words. The book lists code words for telegraphs, the actual words they correspond to are written by hand. Book was printed for the years "1861 & '62" but contains note on the cover page reading "O.C. Hatton, Cumb Gap Tenn Feb 20th 1865." Annotations in the text could be from any time between the book's publishing and the end of the war. Book printed by Stenger, annotations possibly by Hatton.

GLC06233

28 July 1864

Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867

Broadside

Title: A Proclamation for a day of humiliation and prayer.

Reprinting of Lincoln's proclamation of 7 July 1864 calling for a day of prayer for the people of the United States in order to bring about the end of the Civil War and the continuation of the Union. Printed again by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the Governor John A. Andrew calling again for the first Thursday of August to be designated the day of prayer. Requests that this be published and sent out to communities. This copy was mailed to Rev. Edward P. Hale at Milton. Address and Andrew Jackson postage stamp on verso.

GLC06234

25 April 1861 - 16 May 1861

Header Record

Title: Orders regarding George McClellan's command of the Department of the Ohio [Decimalized .01-.09]

Nine printed orders issued by George McClellan during his command of the Department of the Ohio. Some orders signed by McClellan and his chief of staff, Randolph Marcy. The orders were originally tied together with a pink ribbon, also included.

GLC06235

1864/01/16

Newspaper

Title: Crutch. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (January 16 1864)]

Soldiers' weekly paper from U.S. General Hospital, Annapolis; Div. no. 1. Presented to Miss Susan Dennis, Portland, Maine.

GLC06236