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1764/04/12

Livingston, Robert R., 1718-1775

Autograph document signed

Title: [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

1775/04/26

Document signed

Title: [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

1754 ca.

Murrdock, William, fl. 1754

Signature

Title: [Signature of William Murrdock]

Clipped signature.

GLC02503.14

1766/06/18

Ogden, Robert, 1716-1787

Autograph document signed

Title: [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 the verso indicates what was seized and when the writ was recorded at the secretary's office in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

GLC02503.15

1783/04/04

Otis, James, 1725-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for ten shillings]

Received from the treasury of Massachusetts for an unspecified reason.

GLC02503.16

1754/04/20

Partridge, Oliver, 1712-1792

Autograph document signed

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

Signed as clerk.

GLC02503.17

1770/04/07

Ringgold, Thomas, 1715-1772

Autograph document signed

Title: 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

1763/03/15

Rowland, David S. (David Sherman), 1719-1794

Document signed

Title: [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

1756/10/11

Ruggles, Timothy, 1711-1795

Autograph document signed

Title: [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

1783/01/09

Tilghman, Edward, 1713-1786

Document signed

Title: [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

1761/03/10

Ward, Henry, 1732-1797

Autograph document signed

Title: to Thomas Richardson

Relays order by the Rhode Island general assembly to pay Henry Paget fifteen pounds out of the general treasury. Signed as secretary and as a witness to the order.

GLC02503.22

1897/03/22

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Warner re: contribution to Bimetallic Union

Written on personal stationery. Concerns splitting royalties to benefit the Union.

GLC02504.04

1827/06/11

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Messrs. Gales & Seaton re: a speech

Asking Gales & Seaton to include his speech. With a postscript on page 2.

GLC02504.15

1848/12/02

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Millard Fillmore re: information on state prisons

GLC02504.16

1842/05/11

Frelinghuysen, Theodore, fl. 1842

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander M. Carter (et al.) re: declining a speaking invitation

GLC02504.18

1814/03/08

McArthur, Duncan, 1772-1839

Letter signed

Title: to John Armstrong

Writes to Secretary of War Armstrong to inform him that since he has not received orders and has finished as a witness in the trial of General William Hull, he will travel to Ohio. McArthur was then a brigadier general. Hull had bloodlessly surrendered Fort Detroit in August, 1812, during the War of 1812, and was charged with cowardice and treason.

GLC02504.30

1813/12/24

Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "Jesse Hunt or Samuel Huntington"

Brigadier General Cass authorizes the payment of a military account owed to Lieutenant Meek of the 7th infantry regiment. Colonel Huntington was a district paymaster and had been governor of Ohio. Cass would later become governor of Michigan.

GLC02505.06

1808/10/08

Claiborne, William Charles Cole, 1775-1817

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David Porter

Informs Commodore Porter that he cannot leave his present post to "cross the Lakes with Lieutenant Morrell." Claiborne was governor of the Territory of Orleans from 1804-1812.

GLC02505.07

1799/07/31

Yates, Robert, 1738-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request of payment for services]

Request for payment from New York State relating to his service as a Commissioner settling the Onondago military claims.

GLC02505.47

1834/01/05

Booth, Junius Brutus, 1821-1883

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Has learned that a valuable possession left with the recipient has been destroyed. Threatens to sue for five hundred dollars if the destroyed foot is not returned to him, his agent David Paul Brown or Mr. Duffy, the manager of the Arch Street Theatre.

GLC02508.02