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Connecticut gazette. [Vol. 26, no. 1344 (August 14, 1789)]

With proposed draft of twelve amendments to the United States Constitution.

GLC08208

[Advertisement for clothing for slaves from New Orleans, Louisiana]

Circular advertises slave shoes and hats by type, virtues, and price aimed at plantation owners who would have to clothe many slaves for reasonable prices. This company specialized in clothing products for slaves. The circular was published a few...

GLC08210

[Deed of emancipation for a Negro named Harry].

GLC08211

to Henry Jackson

Union troop movements near Monterey, Virginia. The Batlle of Bull's Bluff (30 miles away) was fought four days later.

GLC08212

[Civil War correspondence of Peter Franklin Jones, a Baptist pastor who was an officer in Griswold Light Cavalry, 21st New York Cavalry].

Covers the march to Winchester, Virginia, near Mechanicsburg Gap.

GLC08213

to unknown

Efforts to avoid draft riots in Rochester, New York, by paying bounties and the nomination of George McClellan.

GLC08214

to unknown

Written onboard the ship Madison prior to the attack against York, New Canada (now Toronto).

GLC08215

to Turlow Weed

Explaining the anti-American bias of the English press during the Trent Affair.

GLC08216

[Wartime excerpt from the Emancipation Proclamation].

Possibly used for dissemination by the United States military.

GLC08217

to Mr. Gibson

Listing areas of continuing unrest in the Philippines. Written as Secretary of War and Military Governor of the Philippine Islands.

GLC08218

to unknown

Discuss making a claim to Congress for the remaining salary of her late husband, Vice President Elbridge Gerry. Efforts include contacting John Quincy Adams, a longtime family friend.

GLC08219

to Christopher Gore

Written to Governor of Massachusetts Christopher Gore. Explains his opposition to a proposed Constitutional amendment that would limit the life of an embargo act to 30 days after Congress enacted it. Countersigned by James Lloyd.

GLC08220

to Thomas Brattle

Encloses the resolves of the Connecticut Assembly in support of Boston's struggle against the Townshend Acts and the King's Commission of Customs and recommends that they be printed.

GLC08221

to Luin K. Thacher and Henry Flesher

Two dispatches alerting Union officers of Confederate General Joseph Shelby's raids into Missouri: "I haven just received information that the rebels took Warsaw... & marched out from there on the Sedalia Road..."

GLC08222

to John M. Schofield

Alerting him about Confederate Joseph Shelby's raids in Missouri.

GLC08223

to Egbert Brown

Update on Shelby's raid in Missouri.

GLC08224

to George Hall

Mentions writing both to Brigadier General Egbert Brown and to himself to request an update on any further information they might have on Shelby's Missouri raid, but has not heard from either.

GLC08225

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

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

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

GLC08230

[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

[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

Carte de visite [Portrait of Frances Clalin].

GLC08233

[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

Carte de visite [Portrait of Richard Yates].

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

GLC08235

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

See descriptions in GLC08326.01-.02

GLC08236