7 November 1789

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [No. 60 (November 7, 1789)]

Printed on page four is the act of Congress to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States (continued in the 2nd issue of the Gazette, see GLC08757.02). A letter of John Adams dated 16 October 1780 concerning troops in the Revolutionary War is published on page 1. Other articles deal with the public debt of the Union, President George Washington, and the Senate.

GLC08757.01

23 March 1880

Temperance Republican Headquarters, fl. 1880

Broadsheet

Title: Recent work of grog shops

Gives detailed accounts of crimes and murders committed at liquor saloons due to excessive drinking. Stories are reprinted from other newspapers or publications. Printed by the Temperance Republicans. Subtitle reads: "It is high time for the law-maker to advocate laws which shall make safe the homes of honest citizens. Those who help enact laws whereby the rum seller is protected in his nefarious business are equally guilty with him for the murders committed."

GLC01733.15

1 April 1774

Ripley, Sylvanus, 1749-1787

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Asks Knox to hold money owed to Daniel Dunbarr of Halifax, Massachusetts, who will send someone pick it up from Knox's store. Ripley served as a missionary, preacher at Dartmouth College, and professor of theology at Dartmouth as well. He spells his first name Silvanus.

GLC02437.00133

6 April 1774

Rivington, James, 1724-1802

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Details of arrangements to have Knox advertise and sell Rivington's books. Discusses the children's book he was printing (also see GLC02437.00128). Proposes arrangements to have Knox sell other books. An inventory at the top of the letter lists books sent to Knox. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.

GLC02437.00135

8 April 1774

Rivington, James, 1724-1802

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Indicates that he has enclosed a print that he wants Paul Revere to engrave immediately. Explains that he needs the engraving for a fold-out in a copy of Cook's Voyage he is printing. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.

GLC02437.00136

11 April 1774

Rivington, James, 1724-1802

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Asks Knox to forward letters to the surgeon and apothecary John Manning, along with a draft against him. Rivington previously asked for Manning's address (see GLC02437.00131). Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.

GLC02437.00137

20 April 1774

Rivington, James, 1724-1802

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Sends Knox pamphlets which he believes Knox does not have and will be of interest to his customers. Mentions that he has printed a letter to John Hancock in Rivington's New-York Gazetteer and would provide the opportunity for any of Hancock's friends to reply to it. Sent a print for Paul Revere to make an engraving. Hancock was then a Boston selectman and member of the General Court. The letter was possibly a response to Hancock's general anti-British stance or his recent Massacre Day Oration, given in March 1774. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in…

GLC02437.00138

23 April 1774

Tyler, William, fl. 1774-1776

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses raising a militia in Providence, Rhode Island and asks Knox to send "the Boston Cadets Articles in full" to him. Tyler was an adjutant of Babcock's Rhode Island State Regiment in the Revolutionary War.

GLC02437.00139

23 April 1774

Davenport, John, ?-1830

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Asks Knox to forward an important letter. Addressed to Hugh Knox, Bookseller & Stationer.

GLC02437.00140

2 May 1774

Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of, 1718-1792

Autograph note

Title: to Thomas Flucker

Admiral Montagu informs Flucker that Admiral Samuel Graves will arrive later that month to assume command from British Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Gage. Orders Flucker to leave his house by midsummer. Flucker was Gage's secretary. Sandwich was lord of the British Admiralty during the Revolution. At the time, colonists in New England were becoming increasingly hostile toward the British and the British military was mobilizing in response.

GLC02437.00141

30 April 1774

Bell, Robert, fl. 1732-1784

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Indicates that he has sent Knox publications to sell and asks him to place an advertisement. A post script gives additional information about some of the publications. Bell was a Philadelphia bookseller.

GLC02437.00142

7 May 1774

Brown, Christopher, fl. 1772-1774

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Reports shipment of publications to Knox from Thomas Longman, with Brown writing on Longman's behalf. Longman was a London bookseller.

GLC02437.00143

8 May 1774

Clarke, Joseph, fl. 1773-1774

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Places a new order for books and a newspaper he has not yet received. Asks Knox to get a pamphlet called "Lord Somers' Judgment of whole kingdoms & nations" from John Langdon, bind it, and send it to him. Also asks Knox to order specific books and pamphlets from London for him, including the letter of Royal Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson and Lieutenant Governor Thomas Oliver. The letters pertained to the Hutchinson Letters Affair, which involved letters urging the British government to send additional troops to Boston to fight the rebels. They were published in June, 1773.

GLC02437.00144

13 May 1774

Cary, J., fl. 1774

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses advertising in newspapers in regard to business arrangements with Knox.

GLC02437.00145

14 May 1774

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Indicates that he has received the bill of Thomas Boylston and an order for books. Acknowledges the implementation of the "Boston Port Bill," which closed the Boston Harbor in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party. Expresses concern at how it will affect their business. Also includes his hope that "the measures taken by Parliament will not materially affect my good friends in Boston." Longman was a London bookseller.

GLC02437.00146

14 May 1774

Smith, Godfry, fl. 1774

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Dr. Godfry requests the London Magazine and medical magazines.

GLC02437.00147

16 May 1774

Clarke, Joseph, fl. 1773-1774

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Regrets that Knox has not responded to his letter concerning the binding of a pamphlet (see GLC02437.00144). Places magazine orders.

GLC02437.00148

21 May 1774

McLean, Alexander, fl. 1774

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Orders books and magazines.

GLC02437.00149

21 May 1774

Whittredge, William, fl. 1774

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Confirms the receipt of a book order and places a new one.

GLC02437.00150

13 June 1774

Manning, John, 1741-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses previous correspondence and a draft brought against him by the New York bookseller and printer James Rivington (see GLC02437.00131 and GLC02437.00137). Manning was a surgeon and apothecary.

GLC02437.00151

24 May 1774

Bayley, Daniel, 1755-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Places an order for books and stationary. Bayley was a printer, publisher, and composer.

GLC02437.00152

14 June 1774

Parker, Robert, fl. 1774

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Asks Knox to give his papers to the man who delivered this letter.

GLC02437.00153

15 June 1774

Oliver, Andrew, 1731-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Asks about a list of books he requested from Knox. Knox has indicated that some of the books are scarce but said nothing of the others. He wonders if Knox lost the list, since he made the request a year ago. Oliver wrote a similar letter on 7 March 1774 (see GLC02437.00124). Oliver one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

GLC02437.00154

15 June 1774

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Rivington provides a list of books he has sent to Knox to sell. Mentions other books he was printing. Asks for a list of subscribers Knox has procured, possibly for Rivington's New-York Gazetteer or an edition of Cook's Voyage Rivington was printing. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer. Signed on docket page by Knox stating, "Recd only a doz of the within/ H Knox."

GLC02437.00155

20 June 1774

Rivington, James, 1724-1802

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Suggests collecting payment from Knox's subscribers to Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, since they have had it a year. Requests a list of subscribers to Cook's Voyage, which Rivington was printing. Asks Knox to forward to New York any news Boston receives from England, and comments generally about news dissemination. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.

GLC02437.00156