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[Return of ordnance stores]

Full title: "A Return of Ordnance Stores remaining in the Ordnance Store at Springfield August first and of all Stores Received from the first to the 31st 1780 Made to the Honourable Brigadier General Knox." Lists pieces of brass ordnance, case shot...

GLC02437.10670

[Return]

Return for ordnance stores at Albany, New York. Lists items by type and current condition.

GLC02437.10671

[Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered during the month of January of 1781. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10672

[Return]

Return for ordnance at Albany, New York. Items listed by type, and current condition.

GLC02437.10673

to Thomas Ward re: dissatisfaction with present life and career

A very friendly and kindly letter written three months before his suicide. Mentions Ward's newborn son, personal matters, Jones' personal isolation and Texas politics.

GLC02145.15

to Thomas Ward re: Sam Houston's declining popularity in East Texas

GLC02145.17

Authorizing James Shaw to take certain government supplies in Austin

Signed as chief clerk of the Texas Dept. of State. Also signed by N. C. Hamilton (War) and M. P. Woodhouse (Treasury), for same purpose of getting stationery and other official supplies.

GLC02145.26

to Thomas W. Ward re: asking Ward for Texas State Dept. parchment

GLC02145.31

to Thomas Ward re: building a railroad through Texas

GLC02145.39

to Thomas Ward re: attempts of Columbia to have Ward removed as U.S. Consul

GLC02145.40

to Thomas Ward re: possible war with Spain

GLC02145.52

to Thomas Ward re: granting leave of absense from his post in Panama

GLC02145.53

to Thomas Ward re: inability to write

GLC02145.54

Appointment of Thomas W. Ward collector of Customs at Corpus Christi

GLC02145.58

to Thomas Kearny re: telling Kearny to personally collect customs

Signed as Secretary of Treasury.

GLC02145.62

Obligation to pay Ross & Echington for horse bought from Ward

With separate docket and address leaves (25.0 x 20.1 cm).

GLC02145.77

to Col. Thomas Ward re: personal and business matters

Docketed.

GLC02145.78

to Richard Graham

Notes that apparent strife between Indians and whites in Arkansas has dissipated. Reports a conversation with Secretary of War John C. Calhoun on the topic of establishing Indian agents, in which Calhoun asserted that he would not make any...

GLC02146.04

to Richard Graham and Joseph Philips

Secretary of State Calhoun denies an appropriation request because he did not receive a detailed estimate of expenses. Indicates that he will attempt to have the senate increase the appropriation but advises them to keep their disbursements to the...

GLC02146.17

to Henry Knox re: sending Knox to stop NJ from forming its own Army

Sending Knox in an attempt to keep New Jersey from forming a separate army.

GLC02147

to Eli Williams, Thomas Moore, and Joseph Kerr

President Jefferson writes to the commissioners of the Cumberland Road about reexamining its route from Washington, Pennsylvania, to Wheeling, Pennsylvania. Explains that "the principal object of this road is a communication directly westwardly if...

GLC02148

Nuncia pacis. [Noyes family scrapbook]

Genealogical scrapbook. Folder 1 has 3 photographs of Noyes family homes, family letters concerning family history and genealogical details (dated 1806-1895), undated biographies and family record sheets, list of marriages performed by Rev. James...

GLC02150.56.02

President Jefferson's Inaugural Speech

President Jefferson's inaugural speech, given after his official reelection in 1805: "Mr. Jefferson appeared in the Chamber of the United States Senate, where his reelection was declated, and the necessary oath administered to him." Printed on silk...

GLC02151

[Collection of Orville S. Dewey, 33rd regiment, New York, light artillery] [decimalized]

Nicknamed "Tom" by his family and coming from Buffalo, Dewey served in the army of the Potomac, primarily in Washington at an instructional camp. Many of the letters are addressed to his sister Mary "Mollie" McLean. Dewey stayed in the Army after the...

GLC02161

[Collection of letters written to Fannie Schoonmaker from Patrick Higgins, K company, 56th regiment, New York, infantry] [decimalized]

The collection consists of ten letters written to a young lady named Fannie Schoonmaker, and one letter to an unknown recipient. Nine of the eleven letters, some of which predate the Civil War, are from Patrick Higgins. One letter is from David Reese...

GLC02164