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Resolution [revising act of Congress for governing troops]

1777/04/14

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Printed by Dunlap. Signed in type by John Hancock.

GLC01182

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Proclamation offering protection to those who remain peaceably at home

1777/09/28

Howe, William, 1729-1814

Printed by James Humphreys, Junr. Printed at Philadelphia but issued from Howe's Head Quarters at Germantown.

GLC01183

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Act: re: requiring officers to take oath of office

1778/02/03

United States. Continental Congress.

Signed in type by Charles Thomson. Prints the oath to be taken and describes the circumstances for taking the oath.

GLC01184

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Autograph document signed

Extract from minutes of Congress re: raising Maryland troops

1776/12/31

United States. Continental Congress.

Disbound. Directs Smallwood to raise Maryland troops Was written in Congress.

GLC01205.02

GLC01229

Collection Item

Photograph signed

Ulysses S. Grant, Lt. Gen., USA.

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Published by E. & H.T. Anthony of New York from photographic negative in Brady's Nat'l Portrait Gallery. Inscription on the versi reads: "The last and best [illegible]"

GLC01229

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The definitive treaty between Great Britain and the United States of America

1783/09/03

Treaty of Paris, 1783

Printed by Philip Denis Pierres for Benjamin Franklin. Untrimmed and unopened. First printing of the Treaty of Paris. The seal on the title page perhaps the second appearance of the Great Seal of the United States and "E plurubus unum."

GLC01234