circa 1865

Various

Header Record

Title: Two amnesty oaths for Jones with pardon and related papers [Decimalized .01- .05]

P.B Jones took part in a rebellion against the government . He was later pardoned by President Andrew Johnson. All documents have stamped signatures of important persons.

GLC01444

1841-1862

Header Record

Title: [Printed bills of sale of people enslaved by the Jones Family of Virginia][Decimalized .01-.05]

Collection of materials related to the Jones Family of Virginia dated 1841-1862. Consists of five documents related to the Jones family enslaving people in Virginia. With manuscript notes, signed by different people. Related to GLC01449.01.

GLC01445

17 February 1864

Confederate States of America

Printed document

Title: [Confederate currency]

Confederate currency from the seventh issue. Contains 60 ten dollar bills, featuring an image of field artillery in the center with Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Confederate Senator (1862-1865), in the lower right corner. Includes one 20 dollar bill, depicting the Tennessee State Capital at Nashville in the center and Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States (1861-1865), in the lower right corner. Contains one 100 dollar bill, depicting Lucy Pickens, wife of South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens in the center, two soldiers in the lower left corner, and George…

GLC01446

circa 1833-1865

Jones Family

Header Record

Title: Miscellaneous papers from the Jones Family of Virginia [Decimalized .01- .18]

Collection includes receipts, contracts, newspaper clippings, and accounting documentation for the Jones family of Virginia. Also includes two booklet editions of the Consitution and By-laws of the Hanover Dragoons, and a hiring contract for free black workers.

GLC01447

1865

Jones Family

Header Record

Title: Civil War soldier letters, possibly from the Jones Family [decimalized]

War date letters.

GLC01448

1862-1863

Jones Family

Header Record

Title: Jones family soldier letters [Decimalized .01 and .02]

Letters related to GLC01445 and possibly GLC01448.

GLC01449

1680-1863

Header Record

Title: collection on French & Indian, Revolutionary Wars, Missouri [decimalized]

[decimalized 01450.001-01450.911] 1 black and white bust engraving of Sir William Johnson Bar included. Dated 1680-1863 (bulk:1750-90).

GLC01450

14 August 1777

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Samuel Nicholson as Commander of Frigate Deane]

Signed by Hancock as President of the Countersigned by Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress.

GLC01450.001

24 December 1779

Jay, John, 1745-1829

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of John Wheelwright as Commander of the privateer ship The Neptune]

Countersigned by Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, and John Avery.

GLC01450.002

1776

Simmons, Peleg, fl. 1776

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Orderly book of Peleg Simmons]

Daily orders for troops at Middletown and Newport, Rhode Island. Reports on soldiers' and officers' duties, troop movements, court martials, provisions, uniforms, armaments, soldiers' appearance, and general announcements to the troops at camp. Includes orders on preparing arms and establishing regimental colors. Assigns captains for each day. On 17 April 1776, mentions Commander Henry Babcock's arrest and removal from office due to insanity. 20 July 1776 describes a celebration of the Declaration of Independence, noting parade and canon fire. Briefly mentions smallpox in an entry for…

GLC01450.003

July 1776 - 9 December 1777

Tilden, Ezra, 1751-1819

Diary

Title: [Diary of Ezra Tilden]

Provides a detailed day by day account of Tilden's march through New York during the Revolutionary War. Writes extensively about daily duties, poor rations, hunger, hardships along the march, sickness and death amongst the soldiers, and the demoralized spirit of the men. Possibly writes something about the cruelty of the officers in code on p. 34 by mixing the letters of the words. Includes lists of towns he passed through (p. 12, 49, 107, 141), an item by item list of contents of his pack (p. 9), a list of the monthly wages for each military rank (p. 54), rations for each soldier (p. 55…

GLC01450.004

19 July 1776 - circa 1830

Marshall, Thomas, fl. 1776

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Castle Island orderly book]

Entries also written by Gamaliel Bradford as Lieutenant Colonel, and Jonathan Carver. Reports on daily orders for the Boston Regiment of Militia stationed at Castle Island, in the Boston Harbor, commanded by Colonel Marshall. Mentions everyday life in the camp. 7 November 1776 entry contains instructions on monitoring ships passing the island. After serving the allotted time guarding Boston on the island, the troops prepared to leave 26 November according to orders from Headquarters in Boston. Daily orders entries end 27 November 1776 (p. 50). The second half of the book is an account…

GLC01450.005.01

1 May 1776

Lowell, John, 1743-1802

Document signed

Title: [Commission of Thomas Marshall as Colonel of the Boston Regiment of Militia]

Signed by 15 other members of the Council of the Massachusetts Bay.

GLC01450.005.02

1775-1823

Header Record

Title: [Lovett family business accounts] [Decimalized .01-.33]

GLC01450.006

1779 -1781

Lovett, John, 1743-1792

Autograph manuscript

Title: [John Lovett account book of ships and prizes]

Documents the name, sailing date, and captain of ships and schooners, and details the goods these ships brought back to Lovett. Lovett was a ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. During the Revolutionary War privateering ships, privately owned vessels, were used to assist in defending the colonies from the British Navy. In return, they received profits from prizes captured. Includes 5 loose fragments inserted.

GLC01450.006.01

December 1, 1806

Leach, Nathan, fl. 1806

Document signed

Title: [Statement of captors' shares from the privateer ship Pilgrim]

Statement signed by the owners of shares of the proceeds captured on the ship Pilgrim's first cruise. Total of 39 signatures, Leach being the first. Documents that privateer Hugh Hill was the captain, and that the ship was in the agency of John Lovett. States that the men received the sum from Elizabeth Lovett, from the estate of the deceased John Lovett. Lists the name of each owner, the number of shares owned, sums paid to each, name of a witness, their signature, and the date. Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. Dated 1 December 1806 - May 7,…

GLC01450.006.02

July 2, 1783

Lovett, John, 1743-1792

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Lovett family account and ledger book]

Details the Lovett family accounts. Most are lists of sundry goods brought to Lovett by ship and their costs. Mentions the names of many ships, their sailing dates, and their captains. Note on last page signed by Jeremiah and Ezra Lovett, 2 July 1783. Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. Dated 11 September 1778 - May 31, 1779.

GLC01450.006.03

1778-1779

Lovett, John, 1743-1792

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Lovett family account and ledger book for receipts from the Earl of Sandwich]

Lists what each captain received from the Earl of Sandwich. Mostly lists of goods and their costs. Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. Dated 11 September 1778 - May 11, 1779.

GLC01450.006.04

1775

Lovett, John, 1743-1792

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Lovett family account book] [incomplete]

Details the Lovett family accounts. Most are lists of sundry goods brought to Lovett by ship and their costs. Mentions the names of many ships, their sailing dates, and their captains. The dates run backwards with the earliest at the end of the book. The pages of the first half of the ledger book have been cut out. A few other pages are fragments. Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. Dated April 28, 1775 - 21 September 1775.

GLC01450.006.05

1862-1864

Photograph

Title: Photo album with 39 carte de visite Civil War photos, including Brigham Young

With fore-edge painting. Includes views of Jim Bridger, Brigham Young, Ute and Shoshone Indians. Album presented "By the Boys" [troops] at Camp Douglas, to their commanding officer, Capt. E.B. Grimes, Q.M. Includes a few Washington DC scenes at end. Written at Camp Douglas.

GLC01261

4 March 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: Inaugural address of the President of the United States, on the Fourth of March, 1861.

Lincoln focuses on increasing his support in the North while attempting to not further alienate the South. He references four important documents: Henry Clay's 1850 Speech on compromise, Webster's reply to Hayne, Andrew Jackson's proclamation against nullification, and the U.S. Constitution. Marked Senate executive document No. 1, special session. Disbound but boxed.

GLC01264

December 19, 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ladies managing the Soldier's Fair

Written on Executive Mansion stationery. Lincoln alludes to the "good news" of Sherman's March to the Sea.

GLC01303

22 May 1849

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Printed document

Title: [Patent for Abraham Lincoln's improvement in buoying vessels over shoals]

Patent granted to Lincoln for inventing "a new and improved manner of combining adjustable buoyant air chambers with a steamboat or other vessel for the purpose of enabling their draught of water to be readily lessened to enable them to pass over bars ... " Includes a written description and diagram.

GLC01304

1865, 1940s?

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Ulysses S. Grant, Julia and Jesse Grant at City Point, Va.]

Original negative ca. April 1865, discovered in the 1890s by Meserve, 79 Leonard Street, NYC and published. This is a Meserve print. This was likely reprinted in the 1940s. Inscription on verso indicates the photo was taken when Lincoln visited, just before the surrender of Lee at Appomattox on Apr 9, 1865.

GLC01260

1860 ca.

Whipple, J.A., fl. 1860-1861

Photograph

Title: The residence of late President Lincoln, Springfield, Ill.

Carte-de-visite showing Lincoln and Tad on the front porch in the distance. (The two people on the street are unidentified.) O-38 (M-23) Ostendorf p. 56, who says the negative was taken by John Adams Whipple of Boston in the Summer of 1860.

GLC01262