January 10, 1772

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: personal and land matters

Mentions: Land sales, Wills, James Chew, Joseph Chew, Thomas Chew, Martha Chew, and Samuel Chew.

GLC00099.037

February 19, 1773

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: on land matters

Also mentions: land titles, Wills, Mrs. Johnston.

GLC00099.038

March 13, 1773

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: land and political matters

Mentions: land titles, wills, Cornelius Dixon, Rhode Island affair. The watermark suggests that he used Irish paper.

GLC00099.040

July 27, 1773

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: land matters

Date from docket. The letter mentions: land sales, Mr. Wood, surveyor, Mr. Robert Allcock, agent, and local politics.

GLC00099.041

August 26, 1773

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: land matters and the situation of Virginia

The letter mentions: land sales, Mr. Allcock, Mr. Grymes, seller, finances, and tobacco. "Times are growing very bad in respect to money."

GLC00099.042

November 10, 1773

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: land matters

The note is concerning land matters. It also mentions: wills, Cornelius Dixon, Thomas Dixon.

GLC00099.043

October 21, 1779

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter

Title: to James Madison

Signature has been clipped-off, affecting postscript: "I fear Roebuck v Roebuck is dismis" Concerning land matters and the closing of Virginia's courts in 1774.

GLC00099.044

November 2, 1779

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph note signed

Title: to James Madison re: land sales

The note mentions Susanna Anne Goodwin and Cornelius and Lyonal Dixon. [refers back to #.040]

GLC00099.045

August 27, 1780

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: proposes correspondence, military news

In the letter, Edmund Pendleton proposes to Madison that they should exchange correspondence while Madison serves in Congress. "The rites of [political] friendship." He passes along news of military actions in the South. It mentions General Gates' letter to Congress and the "unhappy affair to the southward." The letter includes other political matters.

GLC00099.046

September 25, 1780

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

The letter mentions companies engaged in promoting the development of the West, the attack on St. Augustine, Florida, the military draft, and Virginia's claims in Ohio. On the letter there is a penciled quotation in later hand on bottom annotating "Hotspur" in Pendleton's letter (quotation from Shakespeare).

GLC00099.047

October 1, 1780

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

The letter provides news of George Rogers Clark's expedition in Illinois and Indian conflicts. Also, mentions French fleet and southern military affairs. Docketed by Madison.

GLC00099.048

October 8, 1780

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

The letter mentions Portsmouth, VA, public executions in Britain and actions of the British fleet and British government. Signature was partially cut along top but not removed from leaf.

GLC00099.049

October 22, 1897

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Document signed

Title: Pardon of Dora Lincoln, convicted of prostitution [or of operating a brothel].

Convicted of "keeping a disorderly house" [a term once used to refer to prostitution]; sentenced to 2 months imprisonment with an additional 2 months imprisonment added after being unable to pay the $25 fine also accrued. Pardoned after serving almost 2 months of the term. No reason for pardon mentioned. (c/s Joseph McKenna)

GLC00045.37

December 22, 1903

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Document signed

Title: [Presidential pardon of James Clark, who was convicted of larceny]

Clark, alias W. Perry Martin of Texas, was pardoned by Roosevelt six years after he completed his sentence for stealing a horse, in order to restore his civil rights since he had "conducted himself in an exemplary manner." Partially handwritten. Countersigned by Acting Attorney General Henry M. Hoyt. With transmittal document and envelope.

GLC00045.38

July 3, 1914

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Document signed

Title: Pardon of Albert Holtzman of West Virginia for white slavery and kidnapping women for the purpose of prostitution.

Partly printed document. (c/s J.C.McReynolds [Attorney General])

GLC00045.39

January 28, 1929

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

Document signed

Title: [Pardon of Marshall Barton Fales to restore civil rights.]

Convicted of swearing a false affidavit for pension claim. Pardoned for good conduct in prison and abiding the law since release. Attempted obliteration of name.

GLC00045.40

May 11, 1932

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Document signed

Title: Pardon of Joseph Burzenski.

Convicted of violating prohibition. Pardoned because he helped stop an escape. Burzenski's name has been blotted-out once at the top. (c/s Wm. D. Mitchell [AG])

GLC00045.41

April 6, 1945

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Document signed

Title: Pardon of Peter Joseph Glynn.

Convicted of violating liquor tax act. (c/s Francis Biddle [AG])

GLC00045.42

May 27, 1946

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Document signed

Title: Pardon of Peter Robert Clark (c/s J. Howard McGrath [AG])

Convicted of piracy on the high seas: pardoned since his jail sentence had been commuted, his fine paid and his probation served. (No other reason mentioned.)

GLC00045.43

January 31, 1964

Johnson, Lyndon B., 1908-1973

Document signed

Title: Pardon of Fred G. Steele (c/s Robert Kennedy [AG])

Convicted of interstate transport of firearms; pardon to commute the 5-year sentence at once to 6 months; no reason for pardon.

GLC00045.44

September 8, 1974

Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

Typed document signed

Title: Granting pardon to Richard Nixon: A Proclamation

Signed by Ford in 1974 in black felt-tip pen. Explains that a trial against Nixon could not begin for a year or more and that, "the tranquility to which this nation has been restored by the events of recent weeks could be irreparably lost by the prospects of bringing to trial a former President of the United States....exposing to further punishment and degradation a man who has already paid the unprecedented penalty of relinquishing the highest elective office of the United States." This copy is a souvenir copy of Congressman Seymour Halpern. Numbered 4311 by hand in lower right corner of…

GLC00045.45

November 14, 1831

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Letter signed

Title: to Thomas Swann

Requests the details of a case involving a wrongly issued search warrant to determine whether a pardon will be granted.

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July 2, 1852

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

Letter signed

Title: to John C. Crittenden re: complaint about a pardon petitioner to his Congressman. Includes pardon petition, petition appeals, and medical report.

Appeal of a pardon for Ameal Brea, convicted of "..forging a soldier's discharge ...". Fillmore says "the Man's offense is great" and all too common. While going on to state that he would be willing to pardon Brea from imprisonment due to supposed dire health reasons, Fillmore finds the physicians report most unsatisfactory in form, manner and content, leading him to cast doubt on the report and the physician. His decision is to "...suspend further action in the case until more satisfactory information can be furnished on this point."

GLC00045.47

December 19, 1951

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed letter signed

Title: Memo to Attorney General re: possible pardon of John Carson

Typed on White House stationery. Stamped and dated by A.G. office. No mention of crime.

GLC00045.48

December 14, 1861

Jackson, Thomas J. "Stonewall", 1824-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Eggleston Johnston

General Jackson, in command of Valley of the Virginia (Shenandoah Valley) discusses his attempts to damage the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. He informs General Johnston, Commander of the Department of Northern Virginia, that he has not been successful in damaging the Canal, but has captured several prisoners from the 17th Indiana Regiment. Jackson hopes to reverse the flow of water through a dam, or to make a small break in the canal. He plans to march with Gannetts' brigade the following Monday and hopes to prevent Washington, D. C. from receiving coal from Cumberland, Virginia during the…

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