1772/05/20

Low, Isaac, 1735-1791

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jellis Fonda re: business affairs

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.28

1781/09/14

Mathews, John, 1744-1802

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles Drayton re: personal business

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.30

1787/03/23

Neilson, John, fl. 1787-1797

Document signed

Title: re: decision of court-appointed referees in a dispute

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.32

1776/01/21

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph document signed

Title: re permit to John Riddell to take passage to Great Britain

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.33

1773/03/04

Randolph, Peyton, 1721-1775

Document signed

Title: Signed two pound Virginia paper currency note

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.34

1774/12/19

Rhoads, Samuel, fl. 1774

Document signed

Title: re: indenture of Alexander Abrahams

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.35

1793/12/04

Schureman, James, fl. 1793

Letter signed

Title: re: personal finances, also signed by John Neilson and John Bray

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.36

1777/05/14

Smith, Richard, fl. 1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Livingston re: declining attendance "at the present session"

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.38

1781/01/20

United States. Continental Congress.

Autograph document signed

Title: Extract from minutes urging Governor of Delaware to send troops to Trenton

Written as Secretary of Congress. [Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.39

1776/01/03

Tilghman, Matthew, 1718-1790

Document signed

Title: Military commission

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.40

1775/08/04

Trumbull, Joseph, fl. 1775

Autograph letter signed

Title: Payment for and storage of molasses

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.41

1757/12/19

Ward, Samuel, 1756-1832

Autograph document signed

Title: to Thomas Richardson re: voucher for payment to Edward Saunders

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.43

1791/01/10

Wisner, Henry, 1720-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Simeon De Witt re: land grant

Possibly the son of Continental Congress member Henry Wisner. (The elder Wisner died in 1790).

GLC02471.44

1789/03/15

Wisner, Henry, 1720-1790

Document signed

Title: Certificate & receipt of payment as delegate to NY Convention (c/s Geo Clinton)

[Continental Congress members]

GLC02471.45

1837/03/31

Long, Stephen H., 1784-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Harlan

Thanks Dr. Harlan for the present he sent to Mrs. Long. Mentions receiving instruction for surveys of Maine and Massachusetts, which he will engage when the weather improves and the winter cold abates. Mentions sending a box of presents.

GLC02475.09

1797/04/14

Robertson, James, 1742-1814

Letter signed

Title: to David Henley

Asks for a response on the subject of corn that he purchased for the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians. There are questions due to some confusion over a payment issue.

GLC02475.13

1860/10/15

Ellet, Charles, fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. Thomas re: regarding family

GLC02480.04

1805/11/07

Evans, Oliver, 1755-1819

Letter signed

Title: to [Charles Willing Hare]

Addressed to "C.W. Hear." Acknowledges receipt of a notice to vacate a lot he had leased from William Bingham and agrees to vacate the property by May 1, 1806. American inventor Oliver Evans is credited with inventing the first high-pressure steam engine as well as other steam-driven machines. Bingham, former Continental Congressman and U.S. senator, had died the previous year. Hare was Bingham's nephew and lawyer.

GLC02480.06

1775/05/15

Fitch, John, 1743-1798

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for Robert Stocton for payment in full]

Receipt to Robert Stocton [Stockton?] for payment in full. Accompanied by incomplete letter of the same date, apparently in a different hand, stating "The enclosed letter came to my Hands of," with monetary calculations. John Fitch designed and successfully launched the first steamboat in 1787. He received a U.S. patent for his steamboat in 1791. In the 1770's, Fitch made a living in Trenton as a silversmith, gunsmith, and provisioner of Continental Army troops.

GLC02480.07

1805/07/02

Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Philips

Encloses his remarks [not present] on a book by Richard Parkinson (1748-1815), which he has read at the request of Sir John Sinclair. Fulton explains that his remarks are written in the form of a letter to Sinclair. He also encloses "a Sketch of Philadelphia which maybe of use" [not present]. Fulton was then residing in England. Parkinson's 1805 book "Tour in America in 1798, 1799, and 1800: Exhibiting Sketches of Society and Manners, and a Particular Account of the American System of Agriculture, with Its Recent Improvements" was highly critical of American society and its "widely…

GLC02480.08

1898/03/25

Gray, Elisha, 1835-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: a copy of an article

GLC02480.10

1823/07/15

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Trumbull re: his engraving "Declaration of Independence", Univ. of Va.

With integral address leaf, free franked. Docketed by recipient. Jefferson agrees to subscribe to a copy of Trumbull's engraving of the signing of Declaration (Staufer 679) and also orders a print of Washington's resignation. He invites Trumbull to see the new University of Virginia and review his drawings for the Rotunda. Jefferson suggests an engraving of the University (never made) and extends his warm wishes to Trumbull. One engraving, "The Declaration of Independence", included. Written in Monticello

GLC02483

1803/01/04

Jackson, James, 1757-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Milledge

Cosigned by Abraham Baldwin. Notifies the recipient of the ratification of the treaty with the Creek Indians. Hopes this treaty will lead the government to attempt to acquire even more Indian lands in the region.

GLC02498.06

1800/12/30

Tingey, Thomas, fl. 1800

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Messrs Willings & Francis re: salvage

GLC02498.17

1838/02/01

Forsyth, John, 1780-1841

Letter signed

Title: to Hon. C. Morris re: copy of congressional journals and documents

Forsyth writes that the journals intended for Marietta College would be forwarded.

GLC02504.17