26 January 1860

Virginia General Assembly

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the Joint Committee of the General Assembly of Virginia on the Harpers Ferry Outrages

Discusses Brown's attack at Harpers Ferry and the Abolitionist activity and legislation in northern states which encouraged him. The report quickly reviews the facts regarding Brown and then turns to larger issues. It reviews the history of legislated emancipation after the Revolution, the conflicts in Congress and then reviews northern legislation. It finds that the North's "statute books are filled with enactments conceived in a spirit of hostility to the institutions of the South, at war with the true intent and meaning of the federal compact, and adopted for the avowed purpose of…

GLC05644

1863

Manville, C.M., fl. 1863

Broadside

Title: Deserters.

Broadside listing delinquent drafted men who failed to report at the proper time in the 13th District of Pennsylvania. Lists their ages, occupation, and residence. Seems to contain about 200 names, in 3 columns. Eight of the names are highlighted in red ink drawn through them, but the text is still readable. Splotch of ink is toward the upper left corner of broadside. Below the delinquents is a shorter list of deserters from the draft, with the same listing of ages, occupations, and residence. Offers a $30 reward for their arrest and delivery to the Provost Marshall, Captain C.M. Manville, "…

GLC05646

circa 3 March 1863

Lane, D.M., fl. 1863

Broadside

Title: Deserters!

Broadside created by Provost Marshal Captain Lane. Lists men who failed to report at headquarters for duty from the Fourth Congressional District of Pennsylvania. They are therefore "subject to Arrest as Deserters from the United States Army." Lists men from the 14th, 15th, 20th, 21st and 24th wards, as well as substitutes who deserted. Men are listed by name, with age, country or state of origin (many are immigrants from Ireland or Germany, but not overwhelmingly), occupation, and street address. Other men are listed under each table giving physical description. Some names are marked in…

GLC05647

1875

Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910

Book

Title: Science and health.

First edition. Published by the Christian Scientist Publishing Company. Author's name on title page is Mary Baker Glover, her maiden name. With 2 pages of errata.

GLC05648

1797

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Pamphlet

Title: Observations on certain documents contained in... no. V & VI ...

Disbound. Printed by John Bioren for John Fenno. The famous "Reynolds pamphlet." Responding to charges against Hamilton of speculation while serving as Sec. of State. Howes H120, Evans 32222. Full title: "Observations on certain documents contained in no V & VI of 'The History of the United States for the year 1796,' in which the charges of speculation against Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury is fully refuted." With presentation note to New York Historical Society.

GLC05649.01

1795

Franklin, Walter, 1773-1838

Pamphlet

Title: Minutes of the proceedings of the second convention of delegates from the abolition societies established in different parts of the United States...

(title continues)... assembled at Philadelphia, on the seventh day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and continued, by adjournments, until the fourteenth day of the same month, inclusive. Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Jr. Franklin was secretary of the Abolition Society of Pennsylvania.

GLC05650

1784

Zenger, John P., 1697-1746

Book

Title: The Trial of John Peter Zenger...for libel against the government

Howes 26 (related). Printed for Flexney, Holborn; Davies, Russel-Street; Merril, Cambridge; and Eddowes, Shrewsbury. Lord Erskine's copy with publisher's printed dedication. Thomas Erskine, 1750-1823, brother of David Steuart Erskine (11th Earl of Buchan, who corresponded with Lady Catharine Macaulay) contributed to passing Fox's Libel Act in 1792 which helped to blunt the use of libel prosecutions by the Pitt ministry. With bookplate of Gertrude Hamilton on front pastedown.

GLC05652

1795

United States. Congress (1st : 1789-1791). Senate

Book

Title: Acts Passed at the First Congress of the United States of America [1789]

Printed by Francis Childs. With separately paginated index. Rebound

GLC05654

25 September 1831

Allyn, Nelson, fl. 1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Allyn

Nelson writes to his brother Joseph in Connecticut, roughly one month after Nat Turner's Rebellion. Discusses family and mutual acquaintances, noting he is in good health. Writes, "the insurrection of the blacks have made greate disturbance here every man is armd with a gun by his bed nights and in the field at work a great many of the blacks have been shot there heads taken of stuck on poles at the forkes of rodes some been hung, some awaiting there trial in several countys, 6 in this county... there is no danger of their rising again here." Discusses his journey to North Carolina and…

GLC05655

1 December 1798

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sylvanus Bourne

References Bourne's letter of 23 November 1798. Writes to Bourne, American Consul in Amsterdam. Says he does not have any recent information from America. Says stories on the yellow fever in the American newspapers are distressing, but otherwise the news is good. Says Congress adjourned on 1 December 1798, but he does not know what Elbridge Gerry told them after he returned from France after the XYZ affair in October 1798. Believes that no matter what Gerry said, it will not change American-French relations. Says "As long as they continue to treat neutrals much worse than their Enemies, it…

GLC05656

1768/09/26

Johnson, William S., 1727-1819

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jabez Huntington

Hopes to return from London after the conclusion of the Mohegan Case. Reports on the "Temper of the New Parliament" in regard to the Stamp Act and other legislation affecting the American colonies. Johnson lived in London from 1767 to 1771, while serving as Connecticut's agent in its attempt to settle the colony's title to Indian lands.

GLC05657

3 April 1776

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Document signed

Title: [Privateer commission for the schooner "Adventure" of Exeter, New Hampshire].

President of the First Continental Congress John Hancock signed this privateer commission authorizing Commander of the Adventure James Johnson to capture British vessels and cargo.

GLC05659

20 July 1773

Hugh, fl. 1773

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Deed of land sale from the various Illinois tribes to signed at Fort Gage, with totems of Indian leaders]

Records a land sale made by the chiefs of several Illinois tribes to several individuals listed. Lists the goods the Indians received and the boundaries of the land. Signed by the commander of Illinois country, Hugh Lord, other grantees, and chiefs of Kazachok, Pewariah and Cahogias tribes. Notarized by James Biddle.

GLC05660

28 August 1832

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William B. Lewis

Writes to Lewis about the widespread opposition to the issue of nullification. Declares that "Alabama is firm as a Rock for [Martin] Van Buren and against nullification," and names a few men opposed to it as well. Proclaims that nullification is " ... too absurd to be attempted by the patriotic south... South Carolina to do an act to destroy her own Liberty & property, ... to become a vassal of a foreign government, or to fall a victim to the barbarous hands of their own slaves." Informs that he is " ... prepared to act with promptness & energy and should the laws be resisted…

GLC05661

1774/08/29

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jackson

Comments on the "disagreeable" current events. Indicates that General Thomas Gage, then the commander-in-chief and governor of Massachusetts, "must recede," otherwise "carnage & bloodshed seem inevitable - there never was anything like the flame the last 2 Acts has produced...erect a standard and believe in a fortnight there would be ten thousnad country people flock to it." Earlier that year, Parliament had passed the intolerable acts--the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the second Quartering Act--in response to the…

GLC05663

1787

Nicholson, James, 1737-1804

Pamphlet

Title: View of the Proposed Constitution of the United States [damaged p. 1]

Published by R. Aitken and Son. Stab-stitched into a slightly later paper cover.

GLC05665

circa May 10, 1785

Cooper, William, 1720-1809

Broadside signed

Title: Instructions from Boston to its Representatives in State Legislature

This document is a printed sheet with a manuscript note at top containing information and instructions about a meeting of those who represent the Town of Boston. The note concerns State Legislators and mentions John Hancock, Samuel Allyn Otis, Caleb Davis, Thomas Dawes, Samuel Breck, Benjamin Austin, and Benjamin Hitchborn. Annotated by William Cooper as Town Clerk. Docketed on verso.

GLC05666.01

1778/03/11

Warren, James, 1726-1808

Manuscript document

Title: [Instructions from the Assembly of Massachusetts Bay to the Delegates in Congress].

Countersigned by John Avery as secretary. Resolution empowering the president of the council to sign the instructions for the Massachusetts delegates in regard to the Articles of Confederation and for the secretary to furnish those delegates with attested copies of those instructions.

GLC05666.02

1736-1800

Broadside

Title: An address to drunkards and two other items [decimalized]

With plea from Capt. Hendricks, an Indian chief, to Col. Pickering, imploring him to keep his rum from "us poor Indians."

GLC05667

1795 ca.

Broadside

Title: Indian letter.... [with:] An Address to Drunkards [temperance broadside]

Temperance broadside printed by N. Coverly. The broadside (possibly playing-off recent news relating to Indians?) quotes an excerpt from a letter of Capt. Hendricks of the Stockbridge Nation to Col. Pickering, 1794 in which he says that the enemy of the Indian "is named RUM! and he is your son, and begat by the white people; and we believe you have the power to control him...." The lower half of the broadside has a general Christian sermon against rum entitled "The Address to Drunkards," which concludes with the admonition, "Reader, art thou guilty of the sin of drunkenness?"

GLC05667.01

1736/01/22-29

Newspaper

Title: Boston weekly news-letter. [No. 1667 (January 22- January 29, 1736)]

Complete in 2 pages? Printed by F. Draper. Includes international news, Tunis, war on the Continent and Boston news.

GLC05667.02

May 1862

Map

Title: [Confederate Civil War map of the Army of Mississippi camp at Corinth, Mississippi]

Manuscript map shows the lines of entrenchments and reinforcements, the Danville Road, cultivated land, camp roads, a cotton press, the O & M Railroad and C & M Railroad, and General William J. Hardee's headquarters. Map was blind stamped while folded with a mark saying "Peter O'Donnell, 16 Camp Street New Orleans" with a design of a ship; he was the stationer who made the paper. Docketed on verso.

GLC05668

1865

Patterson, Robert, 1792-1881

Book signed

Title: A Narrative of the Campaign in the Valley of the Shenandoah, in 1861

Written by former Major General Patterson, who commanded the Department of Pennsylvania from April-August 1861. This book is a weak defense of his actions in the 1861 campaign in the Shenandoah Valley. Published by John Campbell in Philadelphia. Dedicated to the men under his command during the 1861 campaign. Inscribed to "Doctor Reagles US Army, with the respectful Compliments of R Patterson." Map of the Shenandoah/Harper's Ferry region opposite the title page. Index on pages 121-128. This history combines narrative with correspondence. Pebbled brown cloth cover with embossed symbols on…

GLC05671

1869 ca.

Rocher, H., fl. 1875-1880

Photograph signed

Title: [Philip Henry Sheridan]

3/4 length portait, seated pose in uniform.

GLC05672

1865 ca.

J.W., McClary, & Co., fl. 1865

Photograph signed

Title: [William Joseph Hardee]

Bust portrait as Confederate Lieutenant General. With autographed dedication on verso to George H. Steuart. Image faded. Tinted cheeks.

GLC05673