1777/09/28

Howe, William, 1729-1814

Broadside

Title: Proclamation offering protection to those who remain peaceably at home

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

GLC01183

1778/02/03

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: Act: re: requiring officers to take oath of office

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

GLC01184

1776/12/31

United States. Continental Congress.

Autograph document signed

Title: Extract from minutes of Congress re: raising Maryland troops

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

GLC01205.02

1780 circa

Hartcup, Thomas, fl. 1761-1820

Object

Title: [Sword of Thomas Hartcup]

Slightly curved blade, wooden and brass handle with lion's head on hilt. Hartcup was a general in the British army and served during the Revolutionary War. Measurements indicate width at handle.

GLC01450.012.04

1777/09/27

Header Record

Title: [Collection of two items] [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC01450.085

1775/09/05

Rhode Island Assembly

Pamphlet

Title: Acts and Resolutions re: preparing for war [with manuscript note]

Printed folio, stab stitched and signed by Henry Ward as Secretary. Addressed to the Town Clerk of Cumberland, Rhode Island.

GLC01491

1776/10/31

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

Broadside

Title: Speech to Parliament re: "the troubles" in America

Printed by William & Thomas Bradford. The speech blames American leaders for the independence movement and announces the recovery of Canada and New York.

GLC01754

1778/04/01

Page, Samuel, 1753-1814

Manuscript

Title: Muster Roll of Captain Samuel Pages Company of Massachusetts Bay Regiment of Foot in the Service of the United States Commanded by Colonel Benjamin Tupper all engaged for the term of three years Taken for the month of March

Lists officers and soldiers under the command of Captain Samuel Page as a part of the 11th Massachusetts Regiment stationed at Valley Forge as of April 7, 1778. The 11th Massachusetts was a par of Patterson's Brigade. Four Sergeants, Three "Corprels", Twenty-Seven Privates, and One Drum & Fife Boy are listed. The document is signed by Captain Samuel Page and Lieutenant John Foster and dated to April 7, 1778. The document is docketed on verso. Notes are made in a separate column concerning the specific assignments of each soldier in the Company.

GLC01450.529

1777/09/01-1780/03/18

Lowell, John, 1743-1802

Autograph manuscript

Title: Copy of Robert Morris speech re: price of peace & cost of maintaining it

Lowell's copy of Morris' 1783 budget speech detailing estimates for the army, navy, foreign affairs, etc. noting that by focusing on naval strength, "the enemy will be convinced of the impracticality of subduing us." With a one page table listing the depreciation of the Continental dollar.

GLC01526

1777/12/03

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

Autograph document signed

Title: Congressional resolution to Delaware, re: guidelines for exchanging money

Certified copy of a resolution of Congress asking states to enact laws requiring redemption of British bills of credit acquired on or before 4/9/1775, providing guidelines and redemption dates. Docketed on verso. Was written in Congress.

GLC01600

1780/06/18

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox re: sending Knox to stop NJ from forming its own Army

Sending Knox in an attempt to keep New Jersey from forming a separate army.

GLC02147

1780/07/24

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: to Lieutenant of Berkeley Co. re: call for drafting state militia, pay

Partly printed circular letter signed as Governor of Virginia. Refers to an act to prevent desertion, to draft more state militia and to use tobacco loan certificates for pay. Ink and paper losses at center. Lined on verso.

GLC01891

1780/12/24

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: Orders re: to take charge as Commissary of Virginia militia

Signed as Governor of Virginia, mentioning troops being sent "to Fort Pitt on their way down the Ohio" when Indians were raiding the western borders. The close and "thirty thousand pounds" are in Jefferson's hand.

GLC01967

1775/04/10; 1776/01/01; 1786/05

Header Record

Title: [Three pieces of currency from the colonial and early republic periods. Decimalized].

GLC01980.05

1776/07/23

Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lynde Lord

Informs Lynde Lord, the sheriff of Litchfield County, Connecticut, that a prisoner named John McDonald is being sent to his care. McDonald had recently participated in an insurgency in Dutchess County, New York. Indicates that he will reimburse Lord for the cost of feeding for McDonald.

GLC02450.01

1782/06/04

Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Trent

Explains his attempts to collect money for Trent from a Mr. Campbell.

GLC02450.05

1778/08/19

Parsons, Theophilus, 1750-1813

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Marriage Certificate of Dr. David Norwood and Elizabeth Tarbell]

Also signed by Stephen Needham, who notes that the marriage was recorded in the Danvers town records. Parsons, a Justice of the Peace for Essex County, Massachusetts, solemnized the union.

GLC02450.15

1781/08/01

Ross, David, 1755-1800

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Nelson, Jr.

Asks the Governor of Virginia for a copy of the appointment of a Mr. Pench as agent in France and the instructions given to him. Also seeks directions from the governor's board on how to act on a tobacco contract held by Mr. Pench.

GLC02450.17

1776/07/30

Fisher, Hendrick, 1697-1779

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for sixty pounds and six shillings]

Received from John Dumis. Fisher receives the money "as a Commissioner" from New Jersey and promises "to account to the Congress for the same."

GLC02503.09

1775/04/26

Document signed

Title: [South Carolina 50 pound note also signed by Henry Middleton]

Signed by Thomas Lynch, Sr., Henry Middleton, and two others, B. Nuger and one other (illegible). Number 170. Lynch had been a member of the Stamp Act Congress.

GLC02503.13

1776/05/06

Borden, Joseph, 1719-1791

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for 70 pounds sent from the Provincial Congress for paying a detachment of militia]

Witnessed by the Committee of Safety. Note on verso indicates that the detachment was sent to Egg Harbor, New Jersey on 6 June 1776.

GLC02503.02

1775/11/24

Bowler, Metcalf, fl. 1726-1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Clarke

Notes receiving 500 pounds to pay troops. Indicates that the money is nearly exhausted and he has yet to pay some of the Minutemen. Discusses other plans related to the defense of the colonies.

GLC02503.03.01

1778/10/23

Bryan, George, 1731-1791

Document signed

Title: [Order to carry out a death sentence against two convicted criminals]

Order made under Bryan's authority and signed by "Jy Mattlock" as secretary. Orders Sheriff James Claypoole to carry out death sentences for Abraham Carlisle and John Roberts on 4 November 1778. Issued by the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, "under the hand of the Honorable George Bryan Esquire Vice President." Features paper seal of the state of Pennsylvania.

GLC02503.04

1780/10/24

United States. Continental Congress.

Manuscript document signed

Title: Resolution re: shortage of military supplies

Signed by Thomson as Secretary of Congress. The resolution is a response to a report of the Commissary General Col. E. Blaine. Was written in Congress.

GLC02121

1783/05/20

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Gov. Benjamin Harrison] re: provisional peace treaty, Carleton & Washington

Signed by Madison as "James Madison Jr." Countersigned by Theodorick Bland and John Francis Mercer. Written to Governor Benjamin Harrison of Virginia, as state delegate (per Madison Papers and Library of Congress, Papers of the Members of Congress project). Madison makes mentions the controversy with slaves ("Negroes") fleeing with British loyalists to Canada. Carlton had argued that owner claims could be made through normal diplomatic channels once a peace treaty had been finalized.

GLC02321