1765/02/01

Rogers, Nathaniel, fl. 1765

Letter

Title: to George Grenville re: the Stamp Act, a need for changes in colonial society

GLC07654.08

1765/02 ca.

Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Grenville re: Colonial remonstrance against Molasses Act of 1733

He quotes: "'That the Complaint contained in the New England Memorial & Petition was frivolous & Groundless, an high Insult upon his Majesty's Government, & tending to shake off the dependency of the said Colony upon this Kingdom, to which by Law & Rights they are & ought to be subject."

GLC07654.09

1765/07/04

Grenville, George, 1753-1813

Manuscript document

Title: to King George III re: establishment of admiralty courts

With secretarial signatures of Grenville, Lord North and John Turner. Copy of a letter to King George III discussing the admiralty and vice admiralty courts, along with a description of three new courts at Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston.

GLC07654.10

1765/07/09

Great Britain. Treasury.

Manuscript document

Title: Treasury minutes re: Stamp Act revenue

"...[I]t is expected that a full Asembly will form very different Resolutions Such as may cement the Union, which alone can establish the Safety and Prosperity of the Colonies and the Mother Country." Marked "Copy" on first page.

GLC07654.11

1765/09/14

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

Manuscript document

Title: to Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier re: Va. House of Burgesses resolves on Stamp Act

GLC07654.12

1765/10/24

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

Manuscript document

Title: Circular letter to colonial governors re: suppression of rebellion

GLC07654.13

1765/12/15

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

Manuscript document

Title: to Maj. Gen. Thomas Gage re: mob uprisings in New York City

GLC07654.14

1765/12/15

Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765

Manuscript document

Title: to Lt. Gov. Cadwallader Colden re: New York City Stamp Act riots

GLC07654.15

1764/12/11-1765/12/17

Grenville, George, 1753-1813

Autograph manuscript

Title: Notes from Treasury Council meetings

GLC07654.16

1766/01 ca.

Lords Treasury Committee

Manuscript document

Title: Motion for an address re: Stamp Act opposition in the colonies

GLC07654.17

[1766]/02/04

Lords Treasury Committee

Manuscript document

Title: Resolutions of Lords Treasury Committee on American business

Document states that the laws imposed by the Parliment of Great Britain are to be held strictly, and any governor in those colonies that have partook in insurrection should make sure his subjects pay the proper recompensations to the Crown and to those who their actions have harmed (either physically or financially). Also, those colonists who have complied with British laws are to be protectedand held in favor.

GLC07654.18

1766/02/14

Sons of Liberty (New York, NY)

Letter signed

Title: to [unknown] re: unifying the Sons of Liberty in New York

Call to assembly of as many Sons of Liberty as possible to combat the threat of British taxation and to protest the Stamp Act, as well as demand trials by juries.

GLC07654.19

1766/02-04 ca.

Manuscript document

Title: Abstract of Proceedings in 1676 and 1677 in the case of Bacon's Rebellion

GLC07654.20

1766/03 ca.

Knox, William, 1756-1795

Manuscript document

Title: Considerations continued no. 2

Discussion of the plausibility of a "drawback," or export tariff on goods before they left England so that the final price in the colonies would be slightly higher but a tax would not be added on in the colonies, in an effort to lessen opposition to the tax.

GLC07654.21

1766/03/17

Great Britain. Parliament.

Manuscript document

Title: Lords protest re: repeal of the Stamp Act

Response from the House of Lords, in dissension to the Bill of Appeal of the Stamp Act. "If we give our Consent to it without a full Conviction that is right . . . we in effect annihilate this Branch of Legislature, & vote ourselves useless." Possibly in Grenville's hand.

GLC07654.22

[1766/03/17]

Great Britain. Parliament.

Autograph document

Title: Lords protest re: repeal of the Stamp Act

GLC07654.23

February 17, 1788

Gorham, Nathaniel, 1738-1796

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Notes that Mr. [Rufus] King will inform Knox of "everything," that is, events that recently transpired at the Massachusetts State ratifying convention. Writes, "The [sic] was a necessity in the Convention of mentioning Rhode Island as having prohibited the attendance of their members in Congress- an advertizm has appeared in order to give a false colour to that business- and a use is intended to be made of it at the meeting of the Legislature- I have therefore written in the inclosed Letter to Mr K requesting him to get me copies of every thing relative to that affair & to forward it…

GLC02437.03802

24 Deceber 1801

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to John Gleason

A list of duties Gleason has promised to attend to during Knox's two to three month absence. The instructions mainly deal with Knox's logging and lime business, mills, his lands in Maine, and dealing with the contracts for the wood cutters.

GLC02437.07701

1805/03/31

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to John Gleason [incomplete]

Unsigned, and apparently incomplete, but handwriting suggests the author is Henry Knox. Discusses various issues related to Knox's lime business, such as the burning of kilns and shipments via Captain [Edward] Kelleran.

GLC02437.07926

February 17, 1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Gleason

Writes in response to two of Gleason's previous letters. Reports that the articles a Mr. Bentley ordered will be sent on a vessel in March. Mentions the very "serious" problem of the destruction of the lime store, which he blames on the "carelessness of the coopers." Discusses business with Mr. [possibly Ebenezer] Thatcher and the firm of Alden & Robbins. Provides instructions and commentary on his manufacturing business.

GLC02437.08008

1759/05/08

Forbes, John, fl. 1759

Manuscript

Title: Last will and testament of John Forbes

The document is marked as a copy of the original.

GLC03107.04750

1759/07/12

Robbins, Samuel, fl. 1759

Manuscript

Title: Last will and testament of Samuel Robbins

Part of the will deals with the inheritance of Robbins' ore hill. The document is marked as a copy.

GLC03107.04751

1762/12/28

Douglas, Asa, fl. 1762-1768

Manuscript document signed

Title: Lease of land to Benjamin Everts

GLC03107.04752

1765/10/14

Douglas, Asa, fl. 1762-1768

Manuscript document signed

Title: Agreement to allow Robert Livingston to receive any and all profits from the farm leased to Benjamin Everts

Asa Douglas states that the farm he leased to Benjamin Everts belongs to Robert Livingston, and therefore grants Livingston the right to take any and all profits from Everts' farm.

GLC03107.04753

1768/02/17

Douglass, Asa, 1715-1792

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elisha Shelden re: request for financial assistance

GLC03107.04755