10 October 1721

Kerby, Temperance, fl. 1721

Document signed

Title: [Agreement to release Robert Curby from his obligation to her as executor of her father, the late Richard Curby].

Witnessed by Timothy Gifford (his mark) and Jerimiah Gifford (his mark). Also signed by the Township of Dartmouth Clerk Nathaniel [illegible]. The inheritance has been paid and Curby is released from his obligation.

GLC02924.030

circa 1723

Hathaway, Thomas, fl. 1717-1726

Document signed

Title: [Copy of a report of a meeting to choose a surveyor].

Hathaway clerically signs for Richard Borden, John Akin, William Wood, Jacob Barker, and Isaac Smith. Benjamin Hammond is to lay out the general divisions of the uplands. John Akin is to assist him. Attested as a true copy and signed as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth.

GLC02924.031

26 March 1777

Davis, Stephen, fl. 1777

Document signed

Title: [Land Deed]

GLC02924.048

11 July 1710

Cary, John, fl. 1710

Document signed

Title: [Report of a meeting and transcription of a property description].

The meeting was held in answer to a petition of Nathan Howland. The names of those in attendance at the meeting are listed. Attested as Clerk of the Township of Dartmouth as a true copy.

GLC02924.052

17 July 1689

Fish, John, fl. 1689

Document signed

Title: [Bill of sale].

Witnessed by Seth Pope and Ezra Parr. Sale of land in Scoaton Neck in Sandwich to Christopher Gifford, a resident of Sandwich. Fish purchased the land from Samuel Wing.

GLC02924.074

17 May 1935

Todd, Beatrice, fl. 1935

Typed letter signed

Title: to Harry K. Weymer

Authenticating "Against Hoarding," a draft of a speech or commentary by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Includes Mills's signature in pencil. Todd was Mills's secretary.

GLC02977.01

circa 27 October 1858

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucretia Mott

Encloses a sum of money. "I need none other than the wish to help the cause to make me do so the moment it shall be in my power."

GLC03998.01

circa 1847-1878

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dr. Howe

Phillips indicates that he has consigned Howe's excellent letter to George Thompson, M.P., who will put it "into the night train to reach as many English eyes as possible." Thompson was elected a member of Parliament in 1847 for the Tower Hamlets. Dr. Howe is possibly Samuel Gridley Howe.

GLC03998.02

18 April 1860

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Oliver Johnson

Requests Johnson to mail him a copy of the "Independent" containing Beecher's speech at Cooper Institute on women's rights.

GLC03998.03

6 June 1883

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Kip

Declines an invitation from H. G. Chapman to attend the Hemenway Gymnasium on class day.

GLC03998.04

1 October 1850

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Francis Jackson

Requests Jackson to sign a statement in support of women's rights and to ask Theodore Parker to do the same. Sends his admiration of Jackson's niece's sketch of Parker and promises to sit for her when he returns to Boston. Encloses a letter from McClintock recommending a lawyer; McClintock's letter is not with this piece.

GLC03998.05

1811-1884

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph quotation signed

Title: Peace if possible -- Justice at any rate.

GLC03998.06

circa 1871

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George William Curtis

Requests details on Curtis's interview with Grant. Asks if he has heard anyone besides Grant assert that Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner was removed from chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations because of negligence. Curtis was political editor of Harper's Weekly.

GLC03998.07

1877-1900

Bickerdyke, Mary Ann, fl. 1898

Engraving

Title: [Engraved photograph of Mary Ann Bickerdyke].

Collateral to Bickerdyke quotation (GLC05508.037.01).

GLC05508.037.02

23 September 1993

Photograph

Title: [John Cardinal O'Conner Bachrach photograph].

Autopen signature. Accompanies Cardinal O'Conner document (GLC05508.198.01).

GLC05508.198.02

February 14, 1855

Ewing, Thomas, 1829-1896

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William H. Seward

Discusses the failed attempt to unseat him from the United States Senate: "the combination to destroy by mutiny and treason the advantages which the Whigs of New York won in the open field was a fearful one. But we have prevailed."

GLC08226

26 June 1812

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Document

Title: [An act concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods].

Addressed to the commander of the Brig Argus, Edward Howe, Jr.

GLC08230

1803

New York Post

Newspaper

Title: [New York Post over 300 issues].

Includes complete printing of Marbury v. Madison in two issues, complete printing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty and Conventions, a fire in New York, a slave rebellion, etc.

GLC08231

08 November 1804

Newspaper

Title: [Poulson's American Daily Advertizer].

Extra edition printing Jefferson's State of the Union Address in which he discusses the Louisiana Purchase, Indian affairs, and foreign relations.

GLC08232

circa 1862

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite [Portrait of Frances Clalin].

GLC08233

22 May 1861

Hanks, Dennis, fl. 1861

Document signed

Title: [Jury verdict signed by all twelve jurors, including Dennis Hanks, a relative of Abraham Lincoln].

Signed by Dennis Hanks, and eleven other jurors. Hanks and Lincoln lived together in 1818.

GLC08234

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite [Portrait of Richard Yates].

Inscribed on verso: "to W. H. H. Alden from the Governor".

GLC08235

Header Record

Title: [Collection of 2 letters written by the Sherman family]. Decimalized

See descriptions in GLC08326.01-.02

GLC08236

22 May 1861

Taylor, Tazewell, fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to B. W. Belscher

Taylor, a captain in the Sussex Light Dragoons, relays an order from General Walter Gwynn regarding administrative actions in preparation for the next day's secession vote by the Virginia Convention.

GLC08237

21 July 1861

Rhett, Thomas G. (Thomas Grimke), 1821-1878

Autograph note signed

Title: [Dispatch of 27 July 1861].

Reporting that Union troops were between him and General Jones. Countersigned by General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, who adds a pemcil note that forces were sent against the Union troops, who unfortunately already were retreating 4

GLC08238.01