1759? ca.

Manuscript

Title: Poem, "Come Soldiers All" re: battle on Plains of Abraham

GLC01450.314

1761/09/15

Hamilton, Otho, fl. 1761

Autograph document signed

Title: Certificate for provisions supplied to troops by the Lt. Governor.

GLC01450.315

1748/03/12

Brodie, Daniel, fl. 1748

Document signed

Title: re: naval supplies

GLC01450.317

1756/09/13

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Document signed

Title: Order re: impressment of carts for military supplies

French & Indian War order, signed by Governor of Province of Massachusetts Bay.

GLC01450.321

1753/10/29

Bradstreet, Samuel, fl. 1753

Document signed

Title: Certification for discharge for elderly and maimed soldiers.

GLC01450.325

1757/08/24

Pownall, William, 1722-1805

Document signed

Title: Naval certificate, signed by William Shaeffer on verso, 8/27/1757

GLC01450.326

1754/02/04

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Document signed

Title: Appointment

Signed as Governor of Massachusetts

GLC01450.328

1763/08/04

Sherwood, Joseph, fl. 1763

Document

Title: Reporting, "…the government here will require 10,000 troops to be kept in pay by the Northern colonies."

GLC01450.329

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

1862/09/11

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: Reply to Caleb Smith re: meeting with John Ross (Chief of Cherokee)

Endorsement on blank leaf of Caleb Smith's letter. Smith's letter was written on Interior Department Stationery, agreeing to meet with Cherokee chief Ross. Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 415 - 416.

GLC01233.01

1846/08/06

United States. Treaties, etc.

Manuscript signed

Title: Treaty between the US and Cherokee Nation

Signed by John Ross and Stand Watie, both great Cherokee chiefs.

GLC01233.05

1805/07/19

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Printed document signed

Title: [Mediterranean ship passport for the schooner Charlotte]

Signed as president and countersigned by Secretary of State Madison. Partially printed document permits the passage of the merchant schooner Charlotte, commanded by Samuel Candler. Notes that the schooner weighed 103 tons, was mounted with no guns, and operated with a crew of seven men. Numbered 158.

GLC01250

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".

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