23 September 1895

Van Brunt, Ralph, fl. 1865-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles Chapman Grafton

Van Brunt recalls events of the Civil War Battle of Averasborough. Discusses the 16 March 1865 death of Captain James Ingersoll Grafton, Charles's brother. Discusses the battle in detail, mentioning Generals William T. Sherman, Joseph E. Johnston (spelled Johnson), and Hugh Judson Kilpatrick. Relates "We went into Camp at night at an Old Church, the grave yard of which offered the only high ground in one of the hardest rain storms I ever knew and lay down to sleep, among the graves very tired and wet to the bone. In two or three hours we were ordered to support the Cavalry... the enemy…

GLC08895.04

6 April 1892

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

Pamphlet

Title: Massachusetts officers who died while in ther service of the United States during the War of the Rebellion

States "Every officer killed while in service, or who has died since the war, is entitled to representation in the Order by his lineal or collateral descendant." Includes the name of Captain James Ingersoll Grafton of the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers. Contains pencil marks emphasizing various soldiers' names.

GLC08895.05

1783-1815

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

Engraving

Title: [Engraving of Abigail Adams]

Engraving made from a painting by Gilbert Stuart, with a copy of Adams signature underneath.

GLC08917.02

7 May 1792

Otis, Samuel A., 1740-1814

Broadside

Title: [Congresstional order for Treasury Department to compile federal salaries]

Congress ordering the Secretary of the Treasury to present the senate with a statement of "salaries, fees and emoluments...of every person holding any civil office or employment under the United States...together with the actual disbursements and expences in the discharge of their respective offices and employments."

GLC08960.02

14 November 1777

Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Henry Lee

Celebrates the American victory at Saratoga and discusses various operations concerning Virginia, including finances, legislation and military manouvers. Asks Lee's opinion regarding a potential foriegn loan. Written as Governor of Virginia. Signed twice by Henry, once with his initials.

GLC08973.01

1763-1783

Wellmore, Edward, fl. 1834-1867

Engraving

Title: [Engraving of Patrick Henry]

Engraving of Patrick Henry by Edward Wellmore, based on the painting by James Barton Longacre.

GLC08973.02

1820

Hillhouse, William, fl. 1820

Pamphlet

Title: The Crisis, No. 1 or Thoughts on Slavery, Occasioned by the Missouri Question.

Printed by A. H. Maltby & Co, New Haven, Connecticut. Denounces slavery and its introduction into the new Territories: "The extension of slavery to the new and unculivated regions of the west...is a great calamity...It is a blot on the human character." Signature of A.H. Maltby, partially trimmed. Bound with, The Crisis, No. 2 or Thoughts on Slavery, Occasioned by the Missourie Question. Auri Sacra Fames [accursed hunger for gold]. Continuation of the above. Signature of A.H. Maltby, partially trimmed.

GLC09062

2 October 1789

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Letter signed

Title: to Sharpe Delaney

"As in the first establishment of Revenue systems, imperfections and inconveniencies will naturally present themselves in practice, which could not have been foreseen in their formation; it is of the greatest moment, that the best information should be collected for the use of the Government as to the operation of those which may have been adopted... Though the complaints of the Merchants will not always be infallible indications of defects, yet they will always merit attention, and when they occur, I should be glad to be particularly informed of them...It has been very much apprehended that…

GLC09063

13 May 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Printed document signed

Title: [Orders to affix the seal to a letter for Peru's ad-interim President Pedro Diez Canseco]

Order to the Secretary of State. The letter offered condolences for deceased President San Roman and hopes for continued wisdom and success, guided by "the Supreme Ruler of the Universe."

GLC09064

21 November 1822

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Document recognizing Francisco Vicente Spinoza de Camara Perestrello as Consul in Massachusetts and New Hampshire]

Also signed by John Quincy Adams. Francisco Vicente Spinoza de Camara Perestrello represented the King of Portugal and Brazil.

GLC09065

circa 17 November 1777

Davis, Amasa, 1744-1825

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Convention Army]

Also signed by Col. Joshua Davis, Thomas Crane, Will Harris, and Fitch Pool. "Amasa Davis is appointed one of the Commissary's for Supplying the Troops under Genl. Burgoyne (now Prisoners in this State), with the Various sorts of Provisions brought to Boston Market, the produce of the United States, that the said Prisoners shall need, over and above their rations..."

GLC09066

before 1845

Pinkney, Somerville

Manuscript document signed

Title: [US Naval Academy draft of minutes]

"A meeting of the Citizens of Annapolis...for...considering the propriety, of offering a memorial to Congress for the establishment of a Navy yard at this place...Resolved...to take immediate steps to have the harbour of this City, the creeks around it, and the shoal on the outside of its entrance, surveyed by scientific and competent engineers." Signed by Somerville Pinkney, chairman of the committee. List of committee members, including a former Annapolis mayor.

GLC09067

24 September 1798

Heron, William, fl. 1798

Printed document signed

Title: [Appointment of assessors for the 47th assessment district]

Appoints "Samson Howe, Thaddeus Learned, Jonathan Nichols, Zadoc Spalding & Hobart Torrey...Assessors for the 47th Assessment District comprising the Towns of Killingley & Thomson..." Signed by five Connecticut State Commissioners: Heron[a Revolutionary War spy], Andrew Kingsbury, Epaphroditus Champion, Shubael Abbe, and Julius Deming.

GLC09068

January 28, 1777

Yeardley, Sarah, fl. 1777

Document signed

Title: [Quaker Manumission]

"I Sarah Yeardley Widow of the township of Lower Makefield in Bucks County & Province of Pennsylvania do hereby set free from bondage, my Negroe Man Named Daniel Cuffy aged about fifty five years..." Partially printed with manuscript accomplishment.

GLC09071

1 July 1777

Heath, William, 1737-1814

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Pay document]

"Abstract of One Months pay of sundry Artificers employed in the Continental Service from the first of June to the last 1777." Showing amounts owed Captain Thomas Urann [a Boston Tea Party participant] and eleven of his men.

GLC09072

26 July 1898

Schley, Winfield Scott, 1839-1911

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A.W. Reese

Days after triumphing over the Spanish Squadron at Santiago, Cuba, and sent from flagship Brooklyn: "Thank you for your note of congratulation. I am afraid I am being praised more than I deserve for a simple act of duty which my whole training in life has been directed...! The victory was won by all who were engaged, and the people's thanks are more due to them than to me..."

GLC09073

9 April 1773

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ms Parker

Responds to a complaint from the daughter of his recently deceased business partner, James Parker: "Desiring nothing but what is just, shall be more pleas'd to find little due to me than much...I think it contributes to the Duration of Friendship, to keep its Accounts, & those of Business, distinct & separate; and that as exact Justice in Pounds Shillings & Pence should be observed between Friends as between Strangers. I always intended making Mr Parker an Allowance for the Time he spent and the trouble he took in settling my Accounts with Mr Hall [Franklin's partner] after I…

GLC09074

31 March 1799

Henry, P., fl. 1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unidentified [Phil. Payne]

"...[John Nelson] wanted to sell his Land very much, & that just now he was much pressed for money & would sell a good Bargain. He says a fine plantation or two, of the best low Grounds may be had...I would be glad to get my Lynchburgh Tobaco sent down to Richmond...I am to send down to Genl [Charles] Lee in a day or two about getting deeds for SauraTown..."

GLC09075

26 March 1791

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mathew Carey

"Th: Jefferson's compliments to Mr. Carey and incloses him [not present] a N. Carolina newspaper, containing a convention between the two states of Virginia & N. Carolina, submitting to Mr. Carey whether it be not worth a place in his museum. Th:Jefferson has been told that the same convention is complete in the act of Virginia, of about 1786. but he does not possess that act." Signed twice in third person.

GLC09076

16 June 1815

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Maury Esq.

"...what is incomprehensible to me is that the Marquis of Wellesly...says that 'the aggression which led to war was from the US, not from England.' is there a person in the world who, knowing the circumstances, thinks this? the acts which produced the war were, 1. the impressment of our citizens by their ships of war, and 2. the orders of council forbidding our vessells to trade with any country but England without going to England to obtain a special license...these categorical and definitive answers put an end to necessitation, and were a declaration of a continuance of the war in which…

GLC09077

16 April 1800

Fitzsimons, Thomas, 1741-1811

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Sitgreaves

"...We are here all Anxiety to know, what Effect the Mission to France will have on the British Court; if they shall take umbrage at it & Increase their depredations upon our Commerce, the inevitable Consequence must be a total loss of all Interest or influence in this Country. The Conduct of their Vice-Admiralty Courts is so repugnant...that it is difficult to restrain people from Breaking out into open resistance to the depredations of their cruisers - The Privateers of Tortola New Providence & Jamaica, let no American pass...& the charges are so Immense that appeals are not…

GLC09078

circa 1918

Broadside

Title: Dixie Editors Fear Dry Force Bill Will Lead to Negro Controls in South; Destroys States Rights

Prohibition broadside railing against the prospect of prohibition, because it opens the door to northern infringement upon southern whites. "[The fourteenth] amendment gives to Congress the power to force upon the South a vote for the negro - and a revival of the dangerous color question. If enforced, it would give South Carolina a NEGRO government from top to bottom..."

GLC09079

7 May 1776

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania Evening Post

Relaying news from a Dublin paper of a British fleet set to sail in April: "there will be five debarkations...one at Quebec, one at New-York, one in New-England, and two to the southward." Letter from Cork, describing Col. Ethan Allen and his fellow prisoners' generous treatment by the Irish. Letter from Gen. Arnold: "we labor under almost as many difficulties as the Israelites did of old, obliged to make brick without straw...we have near five feet snow on the ground...four hundred sick and wounded in hospitals." Skirmish and privateer news from up and down the Atlantic. (GLC 3235 was…

GLC09080

4 January 1832

Smith, Samuel E., 1788-1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Kavanagh

As Governor of Maine, to future Governor, about the latter's determination of the Canadian border the previous August, by survey on foot. Also mentions occupancy of new Capitol Building and redrafting of Maine's militia laws.

GLC09081

February 13, 1890

Morris, John W., fl. 1890

Typed letter

Title: to Joseph M. Maitland

Letter addressed "Dear Sir and Comrade." Offers his vast legal experience in settling pension claims. Appears to be a generic letter of solicitation. Includes five blank pension forms as examples and one return envelope.

GLC03523.10.206