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Treaty Between the United States and the Winnebago Indians

Concerns the cession of Winnebago reservation land granted in a previous treaty (see GLC08055.43) and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President Franklin Pierce. Treaty arranged by George W. Manypenny, Commissioner on the part of...

GLC08055.44

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Senecas, Mixed Senecas and Shawnees, Quapaws, Confederated Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, Ottowas of Blanchard's Fork and Roche de Baeuf, and Certain Wyandottes

Outlines various land cession and the remuneration the Indian groups will receive. Authorized by President Andrew Johnson. Treaty arranged by Lewis V. Bogy, William H. Watson, Thomas Murphy, George C. Snow, G.A. Colton, Commissioners on the part...

GLC08055.45

Treaty Between the United States and the Siseeton and Wahpaton Bands of the Dakota or Sioux Tribe of Indians

Concerns the cession of Sioux land, their removal, and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President James Buchanan. Treaty arranged by Charles E. Mix, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Siseeton and Wahpaton...

GLC08055.46

[Thomas Jefferson Engraving]

Engraving of Thomas Jefferson, based on the original portrait by Alonzo Chappel.

GLC01431.02

Colonial America

GLC01450.170.01

[Receipt for $1040 received from Theodore Sedgwick]

Money paid for the purchase of 1040 bushels of wheat.

GLC01450.232.02

[Receipt for sixteen shillings received from Captain Wallingford]

Money paid for "Mr. Meturen Rickers Rates for the year 1774."

GLC01450.232.03

[Permission for Samuel Barron "to come to Staeton Island"]

GLC01450.232.04

[Receipt for payment for doors]

Records partial payment received from Benjamin Storer for "two panel doers and one oueter doer." Halifax spelled "Halyfacks."

GLC01450.244.02

[Claim for payment of seventy pounds from the Colony of Rhode Island for a ten day journey to Albany, New York]

Order to fulfill Captain Cornell's request signed by First Deputy Francis Brayton on 28 December 1757. A note on the verso singed by Cornell reads: "Tho. Richardson Please to pay the Contents of the within order." Richardson was the General...

GLC01450.244.03

to Thomas Richardson

Letter cosigned by Thomas Cranston and Peter Bours, who along with Gardner, were members of the Rhode Island War Committee during the French and Indian War. Gardner orders General Treasurer Thomas Richardson to pay Robert Potter fifty pounds for...

GLC01450.244.04

[Notice of a fifteen pound payment to Thomas Arnold, Immanuel Northrup, and Stephen Potter, ordered by the General Assembly of Rhode Island]

States that the payment was ordered at a meeting on 21 August 1758 and to be made from the Rhode Island General Treasury. A note on the verso singed by Northrup indicates he received five pounds on 6 December 1859. Witnessed by Ward as secretary.

GLC01450.244.05

[Military instruction for Major General William Johnson during the French and Indian War]

Gives Johnson instructions for administering "the Defence and Protection of his Majesty's Territories against the French at Crown Point...and for removing Encroachments already made there..."

GLC01450.250.01

[Engraving of General Jeffery Amherst]

Accompanied Amherst letter from the French and Indian War (see GLC01450.277.01).

GLC01450.277.02

18th Century Documents [Decimalized .01- .04]

Two manuscript documents signed, 1709; one autograph document signed, 1796; one autograph document (an obituary). Accompanied by collateral book and research.

GLC01450.612

to George Coade

Requesting payment of a bill. Letter written at Spring Garden.

GLC01541.04.01

[Bill for a trip]

A bill for expenses incurred during a trip, totaling thirteen pounds, eight shillings.

GLC01541.04.02

Collection of two items: 10 Yen note signed in Kanji (Japanese) and Roman and a pamphlet in Japanese [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC01684

[Pamphlet in Japanese]

GLC01684.02

Document signed by Andrew Johnson, Indian Peace Medal, engraving of Johnson, and a lithograph of an Ioway Chief [Decimalized .01-.04]

GLC01993

[Hand-colored engraving of President Andrew Johnson]

GLC01993.03

[Lithograph of Wat-Che-Mon-Ne, Ioway Chief]

Published by Rice & Hart, printed and colored by Bowen. From The History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, and published between 1842 and 1870.

GLC01993.04

[Receipt from the United States Indian Department]

Receipt from the Indian Department to Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, for rental of offices between 1822 and 1828. Signed twice by Clark.

GLC02475.04.01

[Note signed by William Clark]

Clark, explorer and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, refers to a unspecified claim that "should be allowed by the government." States that the claim is supported by Colonel McKenney (possibly Thomas McKenney, the first head of the War Department)...

GLC02475.04.02

[Stephen Douglas' representation of Kimball in Tillsen & Pitkin v. Kimball]

Legal document in case of Robert Tillsen and Seth Pitkin versus Edward Kimball regarding a mortgage foreclosure. Douglas, a lawyer and Senator from Illinois, states that the plaintiffs are to receive a sum of $4,790.

GLC03142.01