1763/06/17

Brown, Benjamin, fl. 1763-1764

Header Record

Title: to Volckert Dow, with DS Certificate 12/2/1763, re: Ft. Ontario

Written about Fort Stanwix

GLC01450.331

1746/03/18

Parker, Benjamin, fl. 1746

Document signed

Title: Receipt

GLC01450.337

1745/11/08

Williams, William, 1731-1811

Document signed

Title: List of supplies

GLC01450.339

1745/11/19

Williams, William, 1731-1811

Document signed

Title: re: charges for nursing & tending sick in Col. John Choate's Regiment.

GLC01450.340

1745/11/19

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Document signed

Title: re: tending the sick. (naval) (cos. Wm Williams and Jason Monk)

GLC01450.341

1757/07/11

Lithgow, William, fl. 1757

Document signed

Title: re: accounting of sundries & supplies to tend the sick.

GLC01450.342

1748/02/21

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Document signed

Title: re: orders payment for transportation of troops.

Signed as governor of Massachusetts

GLC01450.343

1744/06/13

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Document signed

Title: Orders troops to protect "His Majesty's subjects" on the Western frontiers.

GLC01450.344

1752/11/03

Sheffield, James, fl. 1752

Document signed

Title: Invoice for cleaning guns

GLC01450.346

1745/01/13

Higginson, Stephen, 1743-1828

Document signed

Title: Financial receipt

GLC01450.347

1746/06/02

Puchman, Benjamin, fl. 1746

Document signed

Title: Financial receipt

GLC01450.348

1765/11/01

Turnbull, George, fl. 1765

Document signed

Title: Report of troop return.

GLC01450.351

1768/02/04

Robinson, John, 1727-1802

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Thomas Irving to Inspector of Imports and Exports and Register of Shipping in America]

Also signed by Charles Parson, William Burch, Henry Hudson, and one other ("J. Wm. [illegible]"), all at the Customs House in Boston. Appointed by "the Commissioners for managing & causing to be levied his Majesties Customs and other Duties in America." Also outlines the duties of Irving's new position. A note on the verso signed by Fra. Bernard dated 15 April 1768 confirms that Irving took the oath of office. Irving was later a controversial figure involved in investigating the Boston Tea Party. Features paper seal. Ornate design decorating the top of the page.

GLC01450.406.02

1748/08/02

Document signed

Title: Receipt for billeting soldiers for Canadian expedition

GLC01450.412.02

1756/03/03

Anson, George, fl. 1755-1756

Document signed

Title: British impressment order to Capt Powlett, signed as Lord High Admiral

Countersigned by John Cleveland.

GLC01450.412.13

1805/05/25

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Printed document signed

Title: [Notice of an amendment to "An act for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbours of the United States, and in the waters under their jurisdiction"]

A circular letter signed by Secretary of the Treasury Gallatin and sent to Dudley Hobart, the collector of Bath, Maine. Instructs Hobart to enforce the amendment to the fourth section of the March 3, 1805 act, which empowered the president "to permit or interdict, at pleasure" any armed vessels from foreign nations entering America's ports and required all such vessels to submit a report outlining the reason for their arrival. Signed in type, "Approved, TH: JEFFERSON".

GLC01420

1876 ca.

Barry, D.F., fl. 1876

Photograph

Title: Curley: General Custer's scout and only survivor of that horrible massacre.

A cabinet card of George Custer's scout, Curley, the lone survivor of the battle of Little Big Horn.

GLC01365

1777/01/26

Massachusetts Assembly

Broadside

Title: Address to the People of Massachusetts [call to arms] [broadside]

A call to arms mentioning Declaration of Independence and referring to Battles of Princeton and Trenton. The House of Representatives ordered it to be printed and be read by ministers to Sunday congregations.

GLC01400

1780 ca.

Header Record

Title: Revolutionary War period documents [Decimalized .01- .06]

GLC01412.63

1776 circa

Well, Jonathan, fl. 1776

Document signed

Title: muster roll of Captain Jonathan Well's company

Includes distance each soldier has to travel. It is noted that some of the soldiers were discharged either in or near New York. Well's company was part of Colonel Erastus Wolcott's Connecticut Regiment.

GLC01412.64.08

1782/02/20

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

Document signed

Title: Resolutions settling states' Revolutionary War debt

Printed broadside signed by Charles Thomson as Secretary of Congress.

GLC01414

1790/05/26

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Printed document signed

Title: An Act to provide for Mitigating or Remitting the Forefeitures and Penalties, accruing under the Revenue-Laws, in certain cases therin mentioned.

Places district judges in charge of all cases of fines, penalty of forfeiture, etc. Judges then report the cases to the Secretary of the Treasury. Printed document signed by Jefferson as Secretary of State, verified as a true copy.

GLC01431.01

1865-1870 ca.

Boude & Miley, fl. 1865-1870

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Robert E. Lee]

Carte de visite bust vignette portrait, signed on front. Lee is posed as a Union lieutenant, with mustache. With presentation on verso to Mrs. Caskie by Mary Custiss Lee ("M.C. Lee"). Reprinted by the Stonewall Gallery circa 1865-1870.

GLC01437

1865 ca.

Lee Gallery, fl. 1865

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Robert E. Lee]

Signed on front mount by Lee. Oval bust portrait in uniform as Confederate General. Published by Lee Gallery, Richmond.

GLC01438

1865-1870 ca.

Boude & Miley, fl. 1865-1870

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Marty Custis Lee]

Vignette bust portrait signed on mount and inscribed on verso, "For Mrs. E.J. Caskie from her affecte. Mary Custis Lee." With reddened cheeks, lips, and added red flowers in her hand. Reprint by the Stonewall Gallery circa 1865-1870.

GLC01439