12 December 1795

Stewart, John, 1759-1823

Printed document signed

Title: [Resolutions in the Virginia House of Delegates recommending additional Amendments to Constitution][copy]

Instructs Virginia senators and representatives in the U.S. Congress to "unite their utmost exertions" to obtain the following constitutional amendments included: 1. treaties that become law must be ratified by the House; 2. impeachments be conducted by a tribunal other than the Senate; 3. changing Senate terms to three years with one third of the Senate changing each year; 4. excluding judges from holding other offices. Stewart was the clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates. Co-signed by R. Brooke for the state Senate.

GLC03764

January 16, 1799

Stewart, John, 1759-1823

Broadside

Title: Va. Resolutions recommending amendment to bar aliens from Congress

Also asking that aliens be barred from the Judiciary and Executive departments.

GLC03765

1863-1888

Caulkins, Clarence, fl. 1863-1865

Header Record

Title: [Collection of letters belonging to Clarence Calkins, 1863-1888][Decimalized .01-.46]

Collection of letters belonging to Clarence Calkins dated 1863-1888. Correspondence is primarily sent between Clarence to his family members; Samuel J. Calkins, his father; Nettie and Nellie his sisters; and his brother Oscar Calkins. Contents pertains to Petersburg, and prisoners of war at Libby and Danville where Clarence Calkins was likely held. Also included are freemasons ephemera.

GLC03766

February 1804 - April 1804

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Diary kept at Algiers re: lodging, business, etc.

Diary kept from February to April.

GLC03767.01

12 December 1793

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tristram Dalton re: voyage across the Atlantic and arrival at Glasgow

Written to his business partner.

GLC03767.02

1812

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Manuscript

Title: Inventory of Lear's household

GLC03767.03

23 July 1862

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas R.R. Cobb re: Congress meeting in a few days, defense of Col. Benning

Noted as Private at top.

GLC03768

01 December 1674

Perring, Henry, fl. 1674

Document signed

Title: [Last will and testament of Henry Perring of Brookhaven on Long Island].

Attested and signed by Richard Woodhull. Bequeaths his full estate to his wife Hanna Perring, unless she remarries. Perring, Brewster, and Woodhull were among the first patentees of Brookhaven, Long Island.

GLC03769.001

19 March 1851

Smith, A. G., fl. 1851

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Cotton Mather

Writes as the agent for the Utica Iron Manufacturing Company. Describes the collapse of the dock of his company on the Erie Canal. Advises that work should be done to fix it this spring before navigation opens. Reports that they intend to send 5,000 tons of freight in the coming season and because of the increased business, he believes the canal company should build their own permanent dock. Addressed to Mather as the Canal Commissioner, Albany, New York.

GLC03769.002

17 August 1802

Smith, Thomas, 1745-1809

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jasper Yeates

Discusses the recent arrival of a chief justice who lives near the Schuylkill River (near Philadelphia). Mentions an upcoming jury held for a judgment pertaining to Miss [Prius?]. Discusses possibly moving a trial or meeting to Lancaster, Pennsylvania from Philadelphia. Expresses concern regarding the health of citizens in both Philadelphia and Lancaster. Refers to the possible arrival of Breckinridge, and states "I am afraid our Citizens will be too eager to return from the Country which may produce a relapse, if any of the seeds of the fever yet remain in the City, as I still suspect…

GLC03769.003

1794

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Book

Title: A Defence of the Constitutions of the government of the United States...

New Edition, with a preface extracted from Jedediah Morse's American Geography, describing Adams. Printed by John Stockdale. Bound in contemporary tree calf with gilt edges.

GLC03771.01

1781

Delolme, Jean L., fl. 1781

Book

Title: The Constitution of England... [3rd edition]

Jean-Louis Delolme's treatise The Constitution of England, published in multiple French and English editions, is said by R. R. Palmer to have had greater impact on pre-Revolutionary continental views of British politics, than did the Montesqieu's Spirit of the Laws (The Age of the Democratic Revolution, Princeton, 1959, 2: 145.)

GLC03771.02

circa 1883

Robens, J. P., fl. 1841-1864

Newspaper

Title: The Old Flag. First Published by Union prisoners at Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas.

Postwar souvenir facsimile of prison camp newspaper from 17 February 1864 to 15 March 1864, six issues. According to the preface, written by J.P. Robens, "The Old Flag" was published during an imprisonment of 13 months in Tyler, Texas. Contains camp news, poems, advertisements, jokes, and some war news. Contains a list of prisoners in the 17 February 1864 issue. With a bookplate pasted on inside cover printed with "Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Commandery of the State of Massachusetts," signed by General William F. Draper, March 27, 1883. With list of…

GLC03772

1861

Wallis, Severn Teackle, 1816-1894

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the Committee on Federal Relations in Regard to the Calling of a Sovereign Convention

Also on the committee were J.H. Gordon, G.W. Goldsborough, James T. Briscoe, and Barnes Compton. Printed by E.S. Riley in Frederick, Maryland. Opposes all efforts to defeat rebellion in the Confederate States. Says "If a President of the United States, under the fraudulent pretence of suppressing unlawful combinations in Louisiana and Florida, could be permitted to call out troops, to be used for any purpose in Maryland or Virginia, no soil of any State would be free from invasion, and no right of the citizen anywhere would be secure against overthrow" (pg. 4). Claims the war is…

GLC03773.01

1865

Baxter, S.S., fl. 1865

Pamphlet

Title: Free Masonry and the War

Full title is "Free Masonry and the War. Report of the Committee Under the Resolutions of 1862, Grand Lodge of Virginia, in Reference to Our Relations as Masonic Bodies and as Masons; in the North and South, Growing Out of the Manner in Which the Present War Has Been Prosecuted." Written by Baxter as Chairman of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. Ordered to be published by John Dove, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. Printed by Charles H. Wynne in Richmond. Report written as a "vindication of our position, and the position of our country in the present conflict between the…

GLC03773.02

1865

Pamphlet

Title: Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina

Printed at the "Daily Confederate" Office in Raleigh. Consists of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina for 1864. Back of cover says these proceedings should be "read at some convenient time, for the information of members of their respective Lodges." Lists dues collected, lodges in North Carolina, and returns of members in each lodge in the state. Stab-stitched in original wrappers. Slight water damage. Some folds in the booklet.

GLC03773.03

13 June 1798

Pamphlet

Title: House Report re: sale of lands North-west of the Ohio River

Evans 34780.

GLC03774.01

1799

Pamphlet

Title: House Report re: accepting cession of CT's Western Reserve

Connecticut gave up the territory west of Pennsylvania.

GLC03774.02

15 April 1864

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Daniel Butterfield

Commander Military Division of the Mississippi Sherman writes to General Butterfield to discuss preparations for the campaign against Atlanta and problems with rail transportation. He also comments on the high quality of General Thomas Hooker's divisions and his expectations for them. Several other union generals are mentioned. Written on printed stationary marked "Head-Quarters Military Division of the Mississippi."

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February 14, 1820

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Spencer Roane

Written by Tyler as Republican Congressman from Virginia to Roane as Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. Writes to Roane about issues surrounding the Missouri Compromise debates. Tyler was concerned with Northern arguments that claimed Congress could restrict slavery in the Territories through their Constitutional powers. Says he is worried "about the nature of the power which is attempted to be exercised by Congress[.] you and myself cannot fail to agree in pronouncing it a bold and daring assumption - warranted neither by the constitution or the principles of justice."…

GLC03670

25 September 1777

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Bryan Fairfax re: allowing Fairfax to visit to discuss British peace proposal

With a note in a different hand on the address leaf stating "containing a pas[s]port to travel to the camp." Washington also assures Fairfax of his friendship, despite "the difference in our political Sentiments...."

GLC03674

2 September 1776

Lovett, Samuel Jr., 1736-?

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Pay order for John Spencer, for carting salt petre to Wyndham, Connecticut]

Countersigned by five other selectmen of Norwich: Azanich Luthrop, Nathaniel Backus, Elijah Brewster, Silas Hyde, John Gager. Asks the Committee of the Paytable of the Colony of Connecticut to pay Spencer forty shillings. A note signed by Spencer on the verso indicates he received the order in full.

GLC03662.07

11 June 1776

Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807

Autograph document signed

Title: [Pay order to Josiah Blacksley for salt petre]

Countersigned by T. Seymour to Treasurer John Lawrence. Orders Blacksley be paid fifty five pounds, thirteen shillings. A document signed on the verso signed by Blacksley indicates the money was received.

GLC03662.08

25 June 1776

Seymour, Thomas, 1735-1829

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Promissory note for Elias Carrington]

Promissory to to Elias Carrington for twelve schillings and three pence for caring for a sick soldier while on furlough. Also signed by John Lawrence as Treasurer. Verso signed by Samuel Peck, stating he recieved the money.

GLC03662.09

June 8, 1765

Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Lord, 1692-178

Document signed

Title: [Land patent for Adams Stephen of Frederick County].

Fairfax was Lord Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia and the only resident Lord Proprietor in America. This document is docketed on verso and is accompanied by a paper seal. Docket reads " Adam Stephen Esqr. Deed For 306 Acres In Frederick County"

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