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[Land grant for Toppan Webster].

Countersigned by Secretary of State James Madison. Grants 100 acres to Webster, an assignee of Samuel Jess, on the basis of the act of Congress appropriating land for former soldiers and for the society of the United Brethren. The act had been...

GLC02010

Pass for John Ford

Signed by Edwin Stanton as Secretary of War. Pass for John Ford to visit the stage and private boxes in Ford's Theatre.

GLC02011

to George Washington Custis Lee

Autograph endorsement signed in pencil "J.D.", on address leaf of a letter from Weldon N. Edwards to Jefferson Davis dated 13 February 1862 from Raleigh, North Carolina. Edwards, writing as president of the North Carolina Secession Convention, sends...

GLC02017

to James Tyler Ames

Field writes to Ames in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Writes, "As a personal favor to me will you consent to manufacture in the very best manner of the very best materials one repeating gun, similar to the one you saw exhibited to the President in...

GLC02019

Gold liberty coin

Coin ca. 32 mm diameter. Collateral to FDR gold order

GLC01983.03

[An act appropriating funds to purchase two lots for building the Mint].

Signed as Secretary of State.

GLC01984

Columbian centinel. [Vol. 17, no. 12 (April 21, 1792)]

Discusses the recent actions of Congress relating to the establishment of the United States Mint. Describes the actions as: "An act establishing a mint and regulating the coins of the United States."

GLC01984.02

[Jefferson Indian Peace medal]

Based on Houdon's bust of Jefferson. Copies of this medal were given by Lewis and Clark to Indians they met on their expedition. See Alfred L. Bush, Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson, p. 13; Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., The Image of Thomas Jefferson in...

GLC01984.03

[Clerical copy of the surety bond for William Findlay as Treasurer of the United States Mint]

Signed clerically by Findlay, Robert Smith, and Francis R. Shunk. The Mint Act of 1792 required employees of the Mint to furnish sureties. Findlay was the fifth Treasurer of the United States Mint, and served in that office from 1827 until 1841.

GLC01987

[Massachusetts state pardon for Scripture Frost for counterfeiting coin]

Frost was sentenced to stand in pillory for 1 hour and to 2 years hard labor. Conditionally pardoned excepting that Frost pay a 25 Pound ($40) fine. Signed and sealed by John Hancock as governor. Written by Secretary to the Governor John Avery, Jr....

GLC01988