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[Note]

This is a note discussing that the jury should make a verdict based onn testimony heard. the back of the paper has a second note that say that the defendent has a right of defense.

GLC08381.15

[Note]

Looks like a part of a list, Has number one in the top left corner and states that the captor of a runaway slave, who is not his master, or having legal control over him has no right in order to effect that capture to jepordise the life or limb of...

GLC08381.16

[Note]

A note explaining the use of reasonable doubt

GLC08381.17

[Note]

This looks like it was part of a greater list with a number 2 on the upper lef hand corner. The text discusses the event where the defendent was captured saying that if he felt he was in danger that the prisioner had the right to self defense.

GLC08381.18

[Note]

this laysout the two decisions the jury can make, either for the defendent or for the plaintiff

GLC08381.19

[Note]

A note about the purchase of a blade

GLC08381.20

[Note]

A note about a weaapon which states " that the weapon must be so used as to produce the effect legally attributited to it's use, else the jury can not infer that it was used with the intent legally attributed to its use"

GLC08381.21

[Bill of Cost]

Details the cost of the trial. total of $ 113.10 according to the docket

GLC08381.22

"Order of Battle and Plan of Attach, Port Royal"

Hand drawn ink sketch listing 17 ships and their positions, "Josiah Tattnall's Rebel squadron," the placement of Fort Beauregard and their 20 guns, the placement of Fort Walker and its 23 guns, and more.

GLC08382

to Francis Jackson

"You will begin to think this fugitive slave, ought to be flogged, for his neglect and sloathfulness[sic[, in replying to your letter. . .I have just been in search of the information which you require, in respect to the whereabouts of Livi Chocker...

GLC08387

to Louis-Casimir

Re: arriving late to assist General Lincoln at Charleston due to a lack of troops and supplies. In French. To Louis-Casimir, Baron de Holtendorff.

GLC08388

[Letters of British spy]

Letters of British spy, preparing men for Dorcester Service.

GLC08389.01

[Petition and Recommendation in favor of Joseph Galloway, an attainted traitor.]

Missing text of petition, but with 43 signatures including: Thomas Mifflin, William Bingham, and Timothy Matlack. Galloway's was the only pardon granted to a loyalist who had been found guilty of treason during the Revolution.

GLC08389.02

William Heron document

Heron was a Revolutionary War double agent involved with Arnold and Andre. Enclosing "An Act to provide for the valuation for lands and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves. . ."

GLC08389.03

[Collection of two items re: American prisoners of war] Decimalized

GLC08390

[Deposition of American sailor captured by the British off Nova Scotia in 1778]

GLC08390.01

[Prisoner Petition]

"The Petitioned Number of American Prisoners of War . . .," requesting exchange for British officers and seamen. Penned from Kinial Prison, signed by 10 American POW's.

GLC08390.02

to American Counsel at Cadiz, Richard Harrison

Re: Current negotiations between United States and Spain, and ordering material to be used in clothing African-American laborers.

GLC08391

to Colonel P. B. Fouke

Re: Sending 71st Ohio to relieve his command at Fort Donelson & Clarksville. "Use all dispatch in getting here [to Headquarters of Dept of West], leaving your wagons. . .and four teams. . .bringing everything else."

GLC08392

[Gubernatorial Proclamation]

"An Act to prescribe the mode of choosing electors to vote for President and Vice President of the United States." Signed three times.

GLC08393

[U.S. Army razor]

U.S. Army razor, engraved "U. S. Grant," with White House provenance.

GLC08394

[Anti-15th Amendment]

"Hedgehog's Grand Combination of Powers of Darkness. . .The whole to conclude with Hedgehog's celebrated feat of swallowing a live negro!. . ." Reconstruction

GLC08395

Slavery contract

Contract between James Reed and "Providence, a negro man aged about twenty-eight years," binding Providence to Reed for ninety years. Reed planned on emigrating to Texas, then a provice of Mexico, where slavery was not legal.

GLC08397

Regulations for the Army of the United States

Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers. Signed by William Tecumseh Sherman in 1859. Sherman's copy used while superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy. Includes detailed information on army policies, from...

GLC08398

Pickett and his Men

Second edition, with an introduction by James Longstreet. An inscribed copy to General Ell Torrance and his wife: "For General and Mrs. Ell Torrance with love and regards from the author, Lasalle Corbell Pickett. Think of the men who held these...

GLC08401