1715/09/29

Verplank, Gulram, fl. 1715

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: trading accounts

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02430

1715/10/03

Cuyler, Henry, fl. 1714-1737

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: request for payment of account

Cuyler writes that he plans to go abroad in the winter, and therefore desperately needs Philip to pay the contents of his outstanding account. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02431

1715/12/10

Livingston, Gilbert, 1718-1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: trading news

Gilbert discusses the departure of different trading vessels and his business with Philip. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02432

1715/12/31

Livingston, John

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: lack of correspondence

John writes that he has only received about one letter from Philip in the past two years, and asks if something is amiss that he should be aware of. He sends warm wishes for the new year, and mentions some beaver trading transactions. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02433

1716/04/04

Livingston, John

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: trading business

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02434

1716/04/23

Livingston, Robert, 1688-1775

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: differences with Margaret Vetch

Robert discusses a conflict of interests that arose while doing business with their sister Margaret.

GLC03107.02435

1716/05/11

Livingston, Robert, 1688-1775

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: wampum for Alida Livingston

Robert asks Philip to send their mother some wampum, and notes that she has enclosed a lamb and dried apples. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02436

1716/05/15

Jay, Augustus, fl. 1711-1725

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: business dealings

Jay asks Philip not to feel obligated to sell his goods at any time, and notes that he is always happy to conduct business with him. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02437

1716/05/20

Livingston, Gilbert, 1718-1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: trading news

Gilbert writes that he has shipped Philip's flour, and hopes that there are no losses on it. He also notes the price of rum and flour from Barbados. On p.2 Gilbert made a copy of his letter to Cornelius Van Horne concerning the shipment of Philip's flour. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02438

1716/05/30

Livingston, Robert, 1688-1775

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: severe illness of Alida Livingston

Robert writes that their mother is sicker than she has ever been, and asks Philip to send a doctor to the Manor. He concludes with a note of fear that they may lose their mother.

GLC03107.02439

1716/05/31

Fresneaux, Andrew, fl. 1714-1719

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: [in Dutch]

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02440

1716/06/22

Cruger, John, fl. 1714-1719

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: [in Dutch]

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02441

1716/07/03

Fresneaux, Andrew, fl. 1714-1719

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Philip Livingston re: [in Dutch]

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.02442

5 November 1777

Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

Written by Laurens as president of the Continental Congress; signed once and initialed twice by Laurens. Retained copy encloses extracts of Congress and a postscript reporting the passing of those resolutions. The extracts concern recovery and protection of the Hudson (North) River. Draft of letter to Richard Caswell on verso regarding the appropriation of funds for a memorial for Brigadier General Nash, who died at Germantown.

GLC04803

23 March 1778

Lee, Francis Lightfoot, 1734-1797

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Patrick Henry

Co-signed by Banister and free franked in his name. Requests that Congress send new troops to camp without delay. Warns that the Continental army is weak and that it is likely the British will attempt an attack before reinforcements come. Also urgently requests supplies. Writes that he has heard that the British troops in Rhode Island have set out to join General William Howe. States that if this is true, " ... the Enemy will open the Campaign with great advantage over us." Post script advises that General George Washington has been notified by General William Smallwood that a fleet of…

GLC04807

28 May 1776

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Ludwell Lee

Written by Richard Henry Lee as Continental Congressman from Virginia to his brother Thomas Lee. Says he is busy because he has a committee meeting with Generals Washington, Gates, and Mifflin on "the operations of their Campaign." Says he cannot write to many of his friends at this time and asks to be remembered to Colonel Mason. Mentions that Colonel Nelson has not arrived yet. Says he will leave for home in a day or two, rest up, and then attend the Convention at Williamsburg. Says "the sensible and spirited resolve of my Countrymen on the 15th has gladdened the heart of every friend to…

GLC04809

9 May 1794

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert R. Livingston

Monroe, Senator from Virginia, urges Livingston, Chancellor of New York, to accept Washington's offer to succeed Gouverneur Morris as Minister Plenipotentiary to France. Tells Livingston it will be good for the party if he accepts. Says "the effect of you're. declining cannot be perceived." Ultimately, Livingston declined the honor because he did not want the Chancery Court to go to someone of differing political beliefs and because he did not think he could work well with the Washington Administration. Monroe himself was eventually selected to go to France.

GLC04822

November 26, 1818

Header Record

Title: [Patent for Jacob Bromwell's improvement of the wheat fan, or winnowing machine and J.Q. Adams and Engraving of James Monroe and James Monroe]

Document signed by John Quincy Adams and James Monroe, 1 engraving of John Quincy Adams, and 3 engravings of James Monroe.

GLC04823

2 December 1823

James C., Dunn & Co, fl. 1823

Broadside

Title: President's Message

Same-day printing of the Monroe Doctrine in an extra for the Washington Republican and congressional examiner. One of the most important lines includes: "the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for further colonization by any European powers." Text in five columns with ink stains that create small amounts of text loss. Writing and calculations on verso. Signature on verso is hard to read, but might be "Bernard V. Stewart."

GLC04824

22 June 1775

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Document signed

Title: [Commission of Captain Daniel Morgan]

Partially printed document signed by Continental Congress President John Hancock and co-signed by Charles Thomson as Secretary to Congress. The writing in the document's body was done by General George Washington. Document appoints Daniel Morgan as "Captain of a Company of Riflemen."

GLC04825

6 January 1816

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John McHenry

Encloses a collection of sermons by Rev. Richard Price that shaped Pickering's faith. Over forty years ago Pickering renounced the "Calvanistic scheme" in which he had been educated as "utterly incompatible with the perfections of the Deity." Price's sermons gave Pickering the concept of the Trinity which he now embraces.

GLC04835

1797/11/14

Jackson, William, 1759-1828

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sharp Delany re: returning equipment used in surveying

Written from the Surveyor's Office. Jackson signed the Constitution as Secretary of the Convention. In one of his last acts as President, Washington appointed Jackson surveyor of customs at Philadelphia.

GLC04842.25

May 1, 1787

McHenry, James, 1753-1816

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [George Washington] re: explaining his absence from the Convention

Misdated May. McHenry writes the Convention's president, Washington, that he was unable to attend the opening sessions because his brother lay ill. He did attend in August and kept a private record of proceedings.

GLC04842.29

1795/12/17

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Remsen, Jr. re: erratic nature of deliveries, reaction to Jay's Treaty

Concerning delivery of a nail machine, pea planting, newspaper subscriptions and France's reaction to Jay's treaty. He fears France's reaction to the treaty and that they may be silent on "the principle the Count de Vergennes once expressed to me 'great nations, Sir, said he, never complain." Docketed on address leaf. Written in Monticello

GLC04794

31 August 1779

Brice, James,1746-1801

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

Document certifies that Daniel St. Thomas of Jenifer, a futuer signer of the U.S. Constitution, took the oath called for under the "An Act to resrict the Deleages of this Sate in Congress from enegaging in any Trade either foreign or domestic." Signed by Brier "of the Council." List of numbers is added up on verso.

GLC04795