October 19, 1818

Tucker, Thomas Tudor, 1745-1828

Printed letter signed

Title: to Moody Bedel

Printed form letter with blanks filled in by hand indicating that a draft against the Bank of the United States had been sent (not included) and requesting a receipt. Tucker was the secretary of the treasury.

GLC01450.721.19

1815-1860

Livingston, William, fl. 1769-1793

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for legal fees]

Receipt for 43 shillings.

GLC03149.02

1815-1860

Engraving

Title: Engraving of Roger B. Taney

Modern printing of a bust portrait engraving of Taney.

GLC03210.02

15 November 1819

Sergeant, John, 1779-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nathaniel Williams

Discusses the results of the case of Clark's Executors vs. Wilson. States he will send a copy of the material in the next mail (see GLC03545.23.02 for the copy). Free franked by Sergeant.

GLC03545.23.01

16 November 1819

Sergeant, John, 1779-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nathaniel Williams

Copy of the original opinion of the judge in the case of Clark's Executors vs. Wilson, a case concerning the voyage of a ship and the freight involved. Includes separate address leaf free franked by Sergeant.

GLC03545.23.02

1824

Klinckowström, Axel Leonhard, Friherre, 1775-1837

Header Record

Title: [Pictorial atlas and book] [In Swedish] [Decimalized]

GLC03799

19 April 1820

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter Gansevoort

Discusses New York state politics, specifically Westchester County. States that the majority of the Federalists will vote for De Witt Clinton, the New York state Governor, who ran for President in 1820 but was defeated by James Monroe. Mentions Daniel C. Tomkins, who ran on the Republican ticket in the 1820 election with Monroe. Signed James Cooper. He did not have his name legally changed to James Fenimore Cooper until 1826.

GLC05258.01

1825-1845

Autograph letter

Title: to Francis Preston Blair [incomplete]

An unknown author describes the education of another young man to Francis Preston Blair, editor of the Democratic Washington, D.C. newspaper, The Globe. Date range estimated, based on the time Blair lived in Washington, D.C. Only the last three pages of this letter survive.

GLC03209.27.04

1850

Autograph letter

Title: [Update on the activities of a baby]

An unknown author discusses the activities of a baby. Author references the Blair family, and is assumed to be a relative of Francis Preston Blair, editor of the Democratic Washington, D.C. newspaper, The Globe between 1829 and 1845.

GLC03209.27.10

28 April 1817

Tayloe, John, fl. 1817

Autograph document signed

Title: [Authorization for the transfer of property]

Lomax, Forrest, and Jordan sign as witnesses. Brent, Justice of the Peace for Washington, D.C., signs separately as a witness. In his absence, Tayloe authorizes Lomax, his attorney, to act as a trustee of the estate of the deceased Ralph Wormeley. As trustees, Tayloe and Lomax transfer a parcel of Wormeley's land to Samuel Layre, who bought the land in a private sale. Document is frayed along the edges, resulting in some text loss.

GLC03436.13

15 March 1817

Tayloe, John, fl. 1817

Autograph document signed

Title: [Authorization for the sale of property]

Lomax, Forrest, and Jordan sign as witnesses. Brent, Justice of the Peace for Washington, D.C., signs separately as a witness. Tayloe authorizes Lomax, his attorney, to act as a trustee of the estate of the deceased Ralph Wormeley. As trustees, Tayloe and Lomax transfer a parcel of Wormeley's land to Leonard Bristowe.

GLC03436.14

15 March 1817

Tayloe, John, fl. 1817

Autograph document signed

Title: [John Tayloe Lomax authorized to act as trustee of an Estate]

Lomax, Forrest, and Jordan sign as witnesses. Brent, Justice of the Peace for Washington, D.C., and George Healy sign separately as a witnesses. Tayloe authorizes Lomax, his attorney, to act as a trustee of the estate of the deceased Ralph Wormeley.

GLC03436.15

20 May 1834

United States. Congress

Map

Title: Map of the Western Territory & c.

Large folding map of present-day Oklahoma with borders outlined in watercolour designating areas occupied by Native American tribes. Map was previously bound in back of the House Report found in 4132.01. Border lines are colored in blue, yellow, orange, green, and pink.

GLC04132.02

January 16, 1818

Roberts, Jonathan, 1771-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Sellers

Discusses local Pennsylvania politics and governmental appointments. Mentions that he disagrees with a movement to tax the second Bank of the United States and its branches because he believes it will effect the bank's credit. Reports that the trial of John Anderson is over and he has been discharged. Addressed to Doctor Tobias Sellers of the Assembly, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

GLC04309.02

2 December 1828

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Document signed

Title: [Peace treaty with Winnebago Native Americans]

Serving as President of the United States, John Quincy Adams certifies that Naw-kaw, a Winnebago chief, smoked the peace pipe with him in Washington, D.C. Countersigned by Peter Buell Porter, Secretary of War. Reports that Adams has full confidence in the determination of Naw-kaw and his associates to maintain perpetual peace and friendship with the United States. Contains a gold War Office seal.

GLC05120.01

1828-1829

Clark, William, 1770-1838

Autograph note signed

Title: [Note signed by William Clark]

Clark, explorer and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, refers to a unspecified claim that "should be allowed by the government." States that the claim is supported by Colonel McKenney (possibly Thomas McKenney, the first head of the War Department) and Peter Buell Porter, the Secretary of War.

GLC02475.04.02

1850

G., Mattie, fl. 1815-1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Emily

Describes toys recently received for Christmas. The author is a cousin of the recipient. Docketed "Blair Lee, Esq.," indicating that the author and recipient were related to Francis Preston Blair Lee, a Senator, lawyer, and social reformer from Maryland.

GLC03209.27.11

January 13,1823

Pleasants, James, 1769-1836

Printed document signed

Title: [Appointment of coroner]

Serving as Governor of Virginia, Pleasants appoints Lewis Seward as coroner of Middlesex County. Contains the seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

GLC03436.11

17 July 1822

Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Enoch Parsons

Gives Parsons, as President of the Bank of the United States in Middletown, Connecticut, permission to hire a lawyer at a reasonable rate of pay.

GLC04309.03

28 May 1821

Red Jacket, 1750-1830

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for $100 annuity paid to Red Jacket, a Seneca chief, for the Six Nations]

Records payment made by "LeRoy Bayard [illegible initial] McEvers & Thomas Morris" and delivered by Jasper Parrish, sub-agent to the Six Nations. The payment was owed in accordance with "an agreement made with Robert Morris at Big Tree in September 1797 - up to September 1820." Witnessed and signed by Charles F. Cort and E. P. Parrish. Red Jacket signed with X.

GLC05742.01

20 April 1818

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Printed document

Title: [Act in addition to another act prohibiting the importation of slaves]

Passed by Congress and approved by the President. Outlines the ban on importing slaves, the forfeiture of ships built for such a purpose, and the penalties for involvement in the slave trade. The act being added to prohibited the importation of slaves as of 1 January 1808. The names of Henry Clay (Speaker of the House), John Gaillard (President of the Senate, pro tempore) and President James Monroe are printed at the end. The date is the day Monroe approved the act.

GLC08946

2 September 1843

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Calvin Colton

Suggestions for a pamphlet opposing Abolitionists. "Shew that the agitation of the question in free states will first destroy all harmony and finally lead to disunion. That the consequences of disunion - perpetual War - the extinction of the African race - ultimate military despotism...The slaves being free would be dispersed throughout the union; they wd. enter into competition with the American, the Irish, the German, and the free Colored; reduce his wages; be confounded with him; & affect his moral & social standing...Show...That the object is to unite in marriage the laboring…

GLC08952

January 17, 1827

Morris, Charles, 1784-1856

Letter signed

Title: to James Reshan

Written by Morris as a member of the Naval Commission to Reshan as commander of the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Marked as a circular letter. Says the commissioners have not contracted for meat and vegetables for the various navy yards and that the commanders of the yards are supposed to make the requisitions through navy agents and to get the best terms within their power.

GLC03479.06

3 September 1825

Gregory, Francis H., 1780-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard S. Coxe

Written aboard the USS Brandywine by Lieutenant Gregory two days after he relinquished command of the "Brandywine" to Judge Advocate General Coxe. Says he is transmitting to Coxe the interrogations and the answers to them that he got from the Navy Department. Part of address leaf has been torn away. Four small pieces of tape are attached to verso.

GLC03479.05

1824-1837

Header Record

Title: Reciept and two slave lists [Decimalized .01-.03]

Receipt for payment for boarding an enslaved person in jail, and two lists with names and values of the enslaved people.

GLC03434.30