20 January 1799

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript note signed

Title: [Note]

Appears to be either a money order or a note for $130 to be paid to Ceasar Lloyd. Note also appears to have been crossed out.

GLC02437.09857

December 1, 1798

Manuscript document

Title: [Bond agreements related to Henry Knox, Henry Jackson, and Benjamin Lincoln]

Contains financial agreements dated 22 August, 17 October, and 1 December 1798. Related to bonds and mortgages pertaining to Knox, Jackson, and Lincoln.

GLC02437.10330

26 December 1798

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Printed document signed

Title: [Deed between Henry Knox, Benjamin Lincoln, Henry Jackson, and John Gore]

Partially printed. Land sale of three thousand acres to John Gore. Cosigned by Jackson and Lincoln, whose signatures are struck. Countersigned by witnesses Samuel Cooper, Justice of the Peace, and John Norton. Again signed by Cooper 19 December in Boston. Verso signed by Eli Forbes, confirming that the deed was registered in Hancock County 10 January 1799. Docket notes "Lincoln & Jackson to John Gore... mortgage cancelled."

GLC02437.10331

22 October 1798 - 15 October 1799

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Statements related to Knox's inability to pay financial notes]

Knox had hoped to absorb unpaid notes with the sale of Waldo Patent land and finds himself in a financial predicament, noting that his wishes were not "realized owing principly [sic] to the circumstances of the European War..." Admits that he had to stop payment on the notes, to the detriment of his family and his endorsers, Benjamin Lincoln and Henry Jackson. Adds that the land still remains solid security for the payment of his notes. Includes a letter to John Marston, his broker, written on 22 October 1798, in which Knox suggests several propositions to postpone his payment of the notes…

GLC02437.10333

3 April 1799

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bond between Henry Knox, Henry Jackson, Benjamin Lincoln and Benjamin Pickman]

Knox, Jackson, and Lincoln are "firmly bound" to pay Pickman twelve thousand dollars. Contains details of their obligation. Partially printed. Docketed by Knox with the copied signatures of Lincoln and Jackson.

GLC02437.10334

3 April 1799

Manuscript document

Title: [Bond between Henry Knox, Henry Jackson, and Israel Thorndike]

Knox and Jackson promise to pay Thorndike six thousand dollars. Contains the details of their obligation.

GLC02437.10335

circa 30 June 1798

Manuscript document

Title: [Account]

List of transactions between Henry Knox and John Jones by date, from 2 January to 30 June 1798.

GLC02437.10399

20 July 1799

Peirce, Joseph, 1745-1828

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account]

List of transactions between Henry Knox and Joseph Peirce by date, from 9 September 1798 to 20 January 1799.

GLC02437.10400

27 August 1798

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Notice to residents of Waldo patent regarding Massachusetts General Court]

Notifying the residents of the Waldo Patent that the members of the Commissioners of the General Court of Massachusetts "will be at Reed Tavern in Thomaston on the second Tuesday in September" in order to receive any information regarding claims on land withing the patent.

GLC02437.10426

August 1798

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Document

Title: [Land deed to Jonathan Pendleton]

Partially printed document attesting that Knox sold land withing the Waldo patent to Pendleton for two dollars an acre. The amount of land has been left blank however. Docketed in pencil.

GLC02437.10648

3 April 1799

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Document signed

Title: [Land deed to Israel Thorndike]

Deed for the sale of land within the Waldo patent from Henry Knox to Israel Thorndike. Also signed by Lucy Knox, Thomas Jackson, Mary Lincoln, and signed and witnessed by Samuel Cooper, Nathan Dane, Martin Lincoln and Gridley Thaxter. Next to the signatures note stating deed was "cancelled the 16 Oct 1804." The bottom half of the third page has been lost.

GLC02437.10649

circa 1799

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Accounts]

Lists transactions between Henry Knox and John Marston by date, starting from 25 March 1798 to 19 July 1799.

GLC02437.10728

9 April 1865

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Letter signed

Title: to Ulysses S. Grant

In regard to his forthcoming surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Lee writes requests "a suspension of hostilities pending the discussion of the terms of surrender." A endorsement by General Edward O.C Ord appears on the lower fold, made at 11:55 AM and indicating that the letter was read and acted upon by Ord's and General Philip H. Sheridan's troops. Letter marked "Duplicate."

GLC07967

1785/02/14

Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813

Autograph document signed

Title: To: Gerard Bencker.

Receipt to Treasurer Gerard Bancker for 50 pounds.

GLC07969

1 June 1824

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James William Paige

Updates his brother-in-law on his journey from Washington D.C. to Philadelphia, via Columbia, Pennsylvania. From Philadelphia, he plans to return to Washington while his wife Grace Webster continues to New York via Princeton.

GLC01946.01

1825

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James William Paige

States that a rumor is circulating regarding Virginia Congressman John Randolph's challenge to duel Webster. Instructs his brother-in-law Paige to alleviate his wife Grace's concern if Randolph's challenge is printed in the newspapers. Assures Paige of his safety, stating "There is not a gentleman in Washington whose bones are all safer in his skin than mine are." Hopes Paige can send him a letter from Randolph dated 1816 or 1817, possibly Randolph's first challenge to duel Webster. Marked copied and private. Year added in pencil at a later date.

GLC01946.03

16 March 1896

Nott, Charles Cooper, 1827-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Cephas Brainerd

Discusses a disagreement over which group was responsible for booking Abraham Lincoln to speak at the Cooper Institute on 27 February 1860. Lincoln was invited by the Young Men's Republican Union. States that Mr. Bowen had no influence over the decision and remarks that if Bowen was involved with Mr. Briggs and his young men (possibly referring to another branch of the Young Men's Republican Union), it is his own fault. Mentions that Brigg's group abandoned their plan to have the lecture in Brooklyn because they would lose money, so it was held at the Cooper Institute. Brigg's group still…

GLC04471.05

6 September 1862

Seward, Frederick William, 1830-1915

Letter signed

Title: to Cephas Brainerd

Encloses President Abraham Lincoln's appointment of Brainerd as Arbitrator for the United States for the suppression of the African slave trade (not present). Asks Brainerd to acknowledge receipt and supply his place of birth. Also encloses an official oath Brainerd needs to return if accepting the commission (not present). Signed as Assistant Secretary.

GLC04471.06

January 25, 1862

Scientific American

Newspaper

Title: Scientific American. [Vol. 6, no. 4 (January 25, 1862)]

GLC00005.02

1865/07/30

Archer, Edward R., fl. 1830-1917

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Details Archer's life from his departure from London bound for Bermuda on June 13, 1864 to his return from Florida through the blockade on March 23, 1865. "...[I] made every narrow escape from, starving to death, and being eaten up by alligators..." Included in his travelogue are the ruminations undertaken by himself and several other Confederates through Bermuda, Havana, Florida's marshy coasts, through St Marks Tallahassee and Quincy to Albany and Macon before finally discovering the fate of the Confederacy. Numerous graphite additions have been inserted into the text in a hand rather…

GLC01896.079

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of Archer family]

Large family photograph, Archer's, Jeffery's, etc. Thirty-nine people posed on lawn with trees in front of house with porch. Edward R. Archer is seated on the left-center of the image. Photograph split in two.

GLC01896.200

24 June 1825

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James William Paige

Informs his brother-in-law of his family's vacation to Niagara Falls. Refers to a visit from Massachusetts Governor Levi Lincoln Jr. and his wife. States that his wife Grace forgot "two white waistcoats and a pair of working pantaloons" for their son, Daniel Fletcher Webster.

GLC01946.02

1881 circa

Barber, C.E., fl. 1881

Object

Title: [Medal of James A. Garfield]

Front of medal features James A. Garfield in relief profile with the words "James A. Garfield." Verso, designed by C.E. Barber, features a wreath with the following words inside: "Inaugurated President of the United States March 4 1881 - Assassinated July 2, 1881 - Died Sept. 19, 1881."

GLC02783.03

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant.

Ulysses S. Grant. "Sold by a Wounded Soldier" Verso: imprint of "Chestnut St. Philadelphia Photographic Co."

GLC04360.078

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of John Bell Hood.

John Bell Hood. Verso: imprint of "E. & H. T. Anthony."

GLC04360.079