circa 1828

Ker, John, fl. 1828

Document signed

Title: [Petition of Antonio Vela]

Legal document by attorney John Ker who served as petitioner for Antonio Vela, a citizen of Louisiana, in the County Court of Adams County, Mississippi. The petition was showing the court "That on or about the first day of April 1828 he [Vela] was possessed of a certain negro man called Peter. That the said negro ran away about the time above mentioned." Says Peter was captured and jailed under the assumed name Harrison in Adams County. Claims that the Sheriff Horace Gridley sold Peter to Gabriel Winter for $380 to cover the cost of jail fees and other expenses after the time allowed by law…

GLC02887

3 December 1859

Holden, William Woods, 1818-1892

Pamphlet

Title: Tracts for the people. No. 1. Who were our friends in time of need?

Holden, editor of the Raleigh Standard, issues an extreme pro-slavery tract declaring, "Too much liberty, too much indulgence will be sure to injure both the slave and the master." Instructs slave owners to maintain strict discipline over their enslaved people: "It is a good rule, in the management of slaves or servants, to clothe well, feed well, and whip well, if whipping be needed." Condemns whites who trade and interact with blacks. Accuses blacks as having a large appetite for "finery" and "good living." Also asserts "The true condition of the African race is that of dependence on…

GLC02888

January 31, 1865

Ridgely, C. S., fl. 1865

Broadside signed

Title: [Notice for the enlistment and impressment of slaves into military service]

Captain Ridgely informs slave owner G. N. Jones that the "Confederate Government has made requisition on this State for five hundred Slaves ... by the enrollment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities, approved February 17, 1864. Your appointment under this call is one able bodied male slaves [sic], between the ages of 18 and 50." States that the government will pay enslaved people the rate established in accordance with impressments and will furnish them with rations and clothing. Provides pay for the owner in the event of the enslaved persons death, escape, or illness. Reports…

GLC02889

13 December 1832

Hayne, Robert Y., 1791-1839

Broadside

Title: Columbia Telescope--Extra, Thursday, December 13, 1832.

Prints the inaugural speech of South Carolina Governor Robert Y. Hayne. Proclaims the authority of states' rights during the Nullification crisis. " ... it is my fixed determination to assert and uphold the SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY OF THE STATE, and to enforce by all the means that may be entrusted to my hands, her SOVEREIGN WILL. I recognize no ALLEGIANCE, as paramount to that which the citizens of South Carolina, owe to the State of their birth,"

GLC02890

1734-1737

Various

Header Record

Title: Collection of 31 documents relating to the establishment of Sturbridge, Massachusetts. See decimalized entries.

GLC02891

30 June 1775

Benson, Robert, fl. 1775

Autograph document signed

Title: [Appointment of Alexander McDougall as Colonel of First New York regiment]

Written by Benson as Secretary of New York Provincial Congress. After Congress resumed its consideration of the arrangement of regiments, it made the New York Regiment the First Regiment. It also unanimously approved Alexander McDougall as colonel for the regiment.

GLC02892

8 September 1787

Clinton, George, 1739-1812

Document signed

Title: Proclamation

Signed as Governor of New York State offering a reward of $1000 for the capture of arsonists in New York City. Includes official seal.

GLC02893

25 May 1792

Clymer, George, 1739-1813

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Hand

Sends General Hand copies of the excise law, an explanatory letter from the treasury department, a license form, and a copy of a "bill raising money for the protection of the Frontiers" (none included). Discusses the Whiskey Rebellion, relaying Alexander Hamilton's sentiments "that the government will face the opposition with all the necessary spirit."

GLC02894

1790/04/13

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: Marriage certificate of Louis Guillaume Otto & Miss de Crevecoeur

In Latin and French, witnessed by numerous people. Signed by Jefferson (serving then as Secretary of State). Also signed by Members of Congress Jeremiah Wadsworth, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., NYS Supreme Court Justice Richard Morris, Vice Consul of France Antoine R.C.M. DelaForest [sic?] and wife (?), with John and Susanna Kean, Philip Livingston, John Trumbull. A. Frances de Crevecoeur was daughter to the famous author.

GLC02895

January 31, 1889

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Heram Hitchcock

States that they must begin at once for Carnegie Hall to be ready by next winter. Remarks that the location of the hall should not be below 56th Street. Discusses other financial and real estate arrangements for building Carnegie Hall. Written on 5 West Fifty-first Street, New York, stationery.

GLC02896

February 24, 1826

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Levett Harris

Discusses the debt of John Payne Todd.

GLC02898

1813/07/03

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Mathew Carey.

Clark had published a history of the United States. Adams also provides suggestions for the next edition. Accompanied by a slip of paper in Adams's hand reading "Philadelphia," (probably removed from the address leaf).

GLC02900

September 1863

Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888

Pamphlet signed

Title: Report of Operations of the Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, Maj. Gen. P.H. Sheridan, U.S. Vol's, Commanding

A detailed report covering the Battle of Chickamauga. Signed at conclusion by Sheridan as major general commanding.

GLC02901

1862/05/23

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gen. John Stewart

Written as General, a few months after his transfer from Confederate South Eastern defenses. (Name is correctly Stewart.)

GLC02903

19 November 1846

Hill, Daniel H., 1821-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Latta

Reports on the Battle of Monterey and admits that his romantic ideas of war have been replaced with the harsh realities of battle and death. Writes that all accounts in the newspapers are wrong and that the report written by General Zachary Taylor is probably the most incorrect account circulating. Discusses the embedded journalists and how the Autocrat of Russia never had so loyal a "set of toadies."

GLC02905

14 October 1846

Kingsbury, Daniel M., 1811-1873

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. A. B. Kingsbury

Writes to his mother about the Battle of Monterrey and describes the casualties. Mentions supervising Mexican prisoners who are burying the American dead.

GLC02906

26 September 1794

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Hodgdon

Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton asks Superintendent of Military Stores Samuel Hodgdon to check a return for military stores at New London, Virginia, that had been sent to him by Virginia Governor Henry Lee.

GLC02908.01

1893 ca.

Photograph

Title: Post-war photographs of Gettysburg, Antietam and Chancellorsville

GLC02912.01

1866 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Abraham Lincoln]

Oval photograph of engraved portrait of Lincoln. With two one-cent tax stamps on verso. (Dating based on use of tax stamps.)

GLC02912.02.01

1870s

Header Record

Title: Portraits of circus performers

Portrait subjects include Capt. Jack Bassett, Major and Mrs. Ray (ca. 1891), Miss Millie La Mar, Lalloo, and Prince Nicholi ("The Little Russian Prince"). Photographers include Wendt of Boonton, N.J.; Obermuller and Kern of New York; and Eisenmann, also of New York. Previously identified as photographs of "circus freaks."

GLC02912.02.02

1860-1865

Book

Title: Collection of one book and pamphlets on Abraham Lincoln [Decimalized .01-.09]

Includes one paperback book entitled "Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln" and eight eulogy pamphlets.

GLC02913

1864

Print

Title: [Chromolithograph oil portrait of Abraham Lincoln, framed]

Idealized oil chromolithograph of Lincoln mounted on wooden backing within an oval wood frame. Published by E. C. Middleton & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.

GLC02914

1861-1867

Kendall, Sarah, fl. 1861-1867

Header Record

Title: [Civil War correspondence of Sarah Kendall] [Decimalized .01- .85]

Collection of seventy-nine letters to and from Sarah Kendall of New Lebanon, New York, 1860-1867. Most of her correspondents are Union Soldiers during the Civil War. Also includes 1 photograph, 2 newspaper clippings, several diary pages, and ephemera including dried leaves, small rocks, and a decorative cloth heart.

GLC02915

9 April 1865

Broadside

Title: [Courant Extra! Glorious News! The End of the War]

Small newspaper broadside re-printing Grant's famous notice to Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, about Lee's surrender at Appomattox. "Let the People Rejoice. Surrender of Lee and His Whole Army. Ring the Bells and Shout Loud Huzzas." With a manuscript note "Printed At Midnight Sunday April 9. /65."

GLC02916

1847

N. Currier (Firm)

Print

Title: General Scott's victorious entry into the City of Mexico Sept. 14th 1847

Colored lithograph depicting General Winfield Scott entering Mexico City in 1847. Scott is surrounded by other soldiers on horseback. There is an American flag flying in the background. Printed by N. Currier "in the Clerk's office of the District court of the Southern district of N.Y." at 154 Nassau Street. Small repaired tear alongside lower righthand side.

GLC02918.01