December 9, 1781

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: transmittal letter of the preceding legal document

Transmittal letter for legal brief in the suit of Jones v. Walker. Page 4 is docketed by Madison: "[illegible] inclosing the discussions in the Circuit Court of the US at Richmond on the subject of 'British Debts'." A pencil note identifies the handwriting as Madison's.

GLC00099.148

February 8, 1792

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: suggestions for next Census, attack on Hamilton

The letter comments at length and unfavorably on Hamilton's report on manufactures.

GLC00099.149

April 28, 1792

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison re: trade, anti-Hamilton, lawsuits

GLC00099.150

November 28, 1792

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "General" James Madison

In the letter, Madison is saluted as "Dear General" as a joke. Also comments on political pamphlets Madison has sent, states clear anti-Hamilton positions, and discusses relations with the French.

GLC00099.151

January 30, 1795

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

In the letter, Edmund Pendleton discusses the powers of Congress to tax. Also, provides thanks for pamphlets and mentions John Taylor.

GLC00099.152

July 20, 1790

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Beverley

The letter discusses lands, ownership, and affairs of several Virginia companies formed to speculate in the west. Also mentions the U.S. Treasury.

GLC00099.155

September 27, 1790

Pendleton, Edmund, Jr., fl. 1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Turner

Edmund Pendleton, Jr., accepting a promissory note from Mr. Thomas Turner. Accidentally retained with the Pendleton correspondence by the Madison family.

GLC00099.156

July 27, 1799

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James McHenry

The letter discusses fear or rising debt and taxes. Written as President to his Secretary of War. Adams approves McHenry's raising a company of cavalry [sic] but worries at cost. "This system of Debts and Taxes is levelling all government in Europe." John Adams was staying at his home at Quincy at the time.

GLC00103

December 13, 1790

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Letter signed

Title: to William Ellery

Writes that he learned from the Collector of Customs at Providence that the ship Warren embarked without a coasting license or a register indicating her destination. Asks if she arrived in Newport without a license and if Ellery charged her with foreign tonnage. If she did not make a regular entry with Ellery, he is to proceed against her for the penalty. Rebukes Ellery for leaving his post without informing the deputy of his duties and requests that Ellery do so in the future.

GLC00109

1794

Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795

Book

Title: A history of three of the judges of King Charles I: Major-General Whalley, Major-General Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell. . .[Inscribed by William Ellery].

Title continues: "who, at the Restoration, 1660, fled to America, and were secreted and concealed, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for near thirty years; with an account of Mr. Theophilus Whale, of Narragansett, supposed to have been also one of the judges." Signed by Ellery on the title page, with the date, 1795. Extensively annotated and commented upon in the margins, Ellery takes issue with many of Stiles's comments about contemporary events. Stiles was President of Yale College from 1778 until 1795. A Member of the Continental Congress from 1776 until 1785, William Ellery was a…

GLC00111

1789

Morse, Jedediah, 1761-1826

Book signed

Title: The American Geography / By Jedediah Morse

8vo. Signed on titlepage by George Washington with his engraved heraldic bookplate. Contemporary calf. With two fold-out engraved maps, as issued. Athenaeum Catalog (1897) p. 506 (item 161 in the GW's estate inventory), mentions that it was once owned by Senator Hearst of Washington.

GLC00176

1789

United States. Congress

Book

Title: Journal of the first session of the Senate of the United States...

The official printing of the journal of the first Senate, containing the first official printing of the Bill of Rights pp. 103-106. A wide-margined copy with slight browning of the leaves. Evans 22207, Grolier American Hundred 20.

GLC00172

1799

Adams, Hannah, 1755-1831

Book

Title: Summary history of New-England

Title continues: "from the First Settlement at Plymouth, to the acceptance of the Federal Constitution. Comprehending a General Sketch of the American War." First edition, printed by H. Mann and J.H. Adams of Dedham, Massachusetts, for the author. Signed by the subscriber, Eliza Price. Collateral to John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions (see GLC00177.01). Rebacked.

GLC00177.02

March 27, 1794

Ellery, William, 1727-1820

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ray Green

The letter discusses Green's deposition in the case of US v. Brig Enterprise

GLC00184.09

28 March 1792

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

Document signed

Title: to Andrew Clove and Co. re: debt owed to George Thomson

Note on verso transmits collection to Lee, who signed verso in receipt.

GLC00184.26

31 March 1797

McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817

Document signed

Title: Writ of habeas corpus for Thomas Huling

Partially printed document on blue paper. Counter-signed by Edward Burd on recto. Signed by judges Sam Laird and John Jordan on verso.

GLC00184.30

May 23, 1798

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nicholas Low

Morris's efforts to "liberate Mr. Low and carry him back to Baltimore where I believe he very much wishes to be."

GLC00184.33

21 April 1789

Paca, William, 1740-1799

Autograph document signed

Title: Receipt for payment by Thomas Harwood

[Title continued] of the sum 333 pounds 6s., or two-thirds of the money due on a tract of land known as Paca's Forest.

GLC00184.36

January 15, 1794

Rutledge, Edward, 1749-1800

Document signed

Title: Bond of 800 pounds owed to Alexander Gillon by John and Edward Rutledge

Signed in receipt on verso by Ann P. Gillon as executrix. Also signed by John Rutledge.

GLC00184.43

January 12, 1791

Walton, George, 1740-1804

Document signed

Title: Document ordering Wm Glascock to appear before the court

Signed beneath the wax seal as Justice of the State Superior Court. Also signed by Thomas Watkins as clerk.

GLC00184.50

September 19, 1796

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph note

Title: Printed Farewell address with autograph note (written on Claypoole's Advertiser)

Printed copy of Washington's farewell address in Claypoole's Advertiser. Washington has added manuscript notes to his copyist for copying: "The letter contained in this Gazette addressed to the People of the United States is to be Recorded -- and in the order of its da[te.] [Pointing hand] Let it have a blank page before & after so as to stand distinct as it were. -- Let it be wrote with a letter larger & fully [sic] than the common recording hand -- and where words are printed with capital letters it is to be done so in Recording this letter -- and where other words that are printed…

GLC00185

May 5, 1799

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James McHenry

Marked private. In response to McHenry's private letter of April 29, which was a response to Washington's letter of April 23. Washington, commander of the Provisional Army created in 1798 in response to French aggression, wrote to McHenry, Secretary of War in the Adams Administration, on the issue of rank and pay in the army. Officers who lived farther away from the capital received their commissions later than those who lived closer. Since rank was calculated by time of acceptance, those living farther away felt slighted. He agrees with the solution that McHenry suggested to the President…

GLC00204

August 3, 1796

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Rutherford

Written as Vice-President. Adams discusses Bordley's notes on the report of the Board of Agriculture; his escape from politics during the summer; hopes to hear more on Rutherford's thoughts on agriculture. Numbered "155." at top of page 1. Written at Sober Hill.

GLC00188

1780-1789

United States. Continental Congress.

Book

Title: Resolutions, acts and orders of Congress, for the year 1780 : volume VI

Journals of Congress. Evans 20079

GLC00219.06

18 July 1798

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Broadside

Title: General Washington's Letter Declaring his Acceptance of the Command of the Armies of the United States

Regarding the Quasi-War with France, Washington's support for the Administration and acceptance of commander in chief. Signed: "D.R. Slade" in upper right corner. Washington's letter is dated July 17, 1798 from Mount Vernon. The document is also dated July 13, 1798 from Mount Vernon.

GLC00265.04