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

1801/02/20

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Print

Title: Stipple engraving after R. Peale engraved by C. Tidout

Printed by M. Carey. Full title: "Thomas Jefferson. President of the United States." The text at bottom quotes the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths...."

GLC05669

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

5 March 1861

Memminger, Christopher G., 1803-1888

Printed document signed

Title: [Requirement for the deposit of money to the Confederate Treasury]

Memminger, serving as Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, instructs former public officers of the United States to "make immediate payment into the Confederate Treasury, of any balance ... of money collected or received by you, for the account of the United States."

GLC05674

1854

Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull), 1806-1863

Book

Title: Africa and the American Flag. By Commander Andrew H. Foote. U.S. Navy, Lieutenant commanding U.S. Brig. Perry on the Coast of Africa, A.D. 1850-1851.

Signed by Rear Admiral Semmes on the inner front cover. 390 pages of text followed by 18 pages of advertisements. Includes lithographs as illustration. Published by D. Appleton & Co. Discusses Western European and American interests in the African coast.

GLC05675

1732/09/08

Zenger, John P., 1697-1746

Newspaper

Title: New-York weekly journal. [Vol. 933, no. 96 (September 8, 1735)]

Published one month after Zenger's acquittal. Complains that the magistrate has no right over nor should intrude in the private lives of citizens. Argues that by liberty and natural right, men are entitled to govern over their own private affairs, have freedom of thought, and "carry his own conscience." Includes a foreign affairs section where updates on the War of Polish Succession are reported. Also includes a section for New York news, entries and departures of the New York customs house and advertisements.

GLC05676

1867-1871

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Header Record

Title: Collection of letters from Salmon Portland Chase to Jehu Glancy Jones regarding the politics during the Reconstruction Era [Decimalized .01-.05]

GLC05677

3-4 November 1829

Byrne, John, fl. 1829

Document signed

Title: [Contract for the purchase of a slave named "Kitty"]

John Byrne "hires" Kitty to James B. Bailey for $200 for a term of seventy years. To uphold his part of the contract, Bailey has "to furnish the said negro girl Kitty with good holesome provisions & comfortable clothing & also to treat her with Humanity." Signed by Byrne and Bailey on first page. Contract dated 3 November 1829. On verso, signed by [H. White], an Austin official, and by George Robinson and Thomas H. Borden, as witnesses, on 4 November.

GLC05679

9 March 1848

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document

Title: Report no. 326

Lincoln reports his recommendation to the House that Brimfield, Illinois Postmaster H. M. Barney be released from paying specie funds lost in a disastrous fire. Barney's store, along with all the papers of the post office, was destroyed by fire on 15 December 1847.

GLC05584

1801/02/18

Otis, Harrison G., 1765-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Lowell Jr. re: Adam's appointment of the "Midnight Judges"

Adam's attempt to appoint federal judges before Jefferson's inauguration. Mentions appointments of Justices Lowell (Chief justice of the 1st Circuit), Bourne and Jere: Smith (Associate Justices of same), John Davis (district judge), himself ("H.G.O") (D.A.). He concludes "It is presumable the appointments will be concurred in. Mr. Parson is also nominated Attorney General of the United States."

GLC05588.03

January 15, 1866

Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Andrew Johnson

Letter draft written in prison by the former commander the CSS "Alabama" to the President defending himself against all charges. Discusses the surrender agreement at Greensboro, the definition of treason, the United States Constitution, and his unlawful imprisonment. "The commerce of half a world was at my mercy, and the passions of men North and South, were tossed into a whirl wind by the current events of the most bloody and terrific war the human race had ever seen." Extensive corrections throughout. President Johnson in May 1866 directed that Semmes, while unpardoned, could not hold…

GLC05590

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: [Alexander S. Webb]

Signed on mount as Brevet Major General. Imprint on verso.

GLC05593