1763

Livingston, Family

Manuscript

Title: Indexed account book [index only]

GLC03107.05432

1766-1779

Livingston, Robert III, 1708-1790

Manuscript

Title: Account book of Robert Livingston Jr. [reverse calf]

GLC03107.05433

1773-1776

Livingston, Family

Manuscript

Title: Account book [reverse calf][Ledger 5]

GLC03107.05434

1774

Livingston, Family

Manuscript

Title: Contra ledger [paper cover]

GLC03107.05435

1-3 May 1770

Wilkie, J., fl. 1757-1823

Newspaper

Title: The London chronicle. [Vol. 27, no. 2088 (May 1-May 3, 1770)]

Reports acts to regulate trials and elections, as well as parliamentary speeches and business. Advertisements include book publications, real estate, and epitaphs. A postscript fills the back page of this London newspaper detailing the Boston Massacre. An editorial insinuates that the Massacre was in fact premeditated, and could have been prevented by a single, active magistrate. In reality, jealousies and misinterpretation ensued.

GLC03126

1769-1791

Header Record

Title: New Hampshire Revolutionary War documents, mainly dealing with draft, militia

1. King George III. D: Portsmouth, N.H. 4 November 1769. Legal writ to the sheriff of New Hampshire ordering the seizure of Richard Perkins for appearance in court. 1p. + docket + endorsement. 2. State of New Hampshire. D: Hillsborough, [N.H.] 12 January 1781. An Act for the raising and completing this state's quota of the Continental Army. 2p. + docketed on verso. 3. State of New Hampshire. D: Hillsborough, [N.H.] 14 April 1781. An Act in addition to, and alteration of an Act passed the 12th day of January 1781, entitled an act for raising and completing this state's quota…

GLC03657

18 October 1765

Walpole, Robert, fl. 1765

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Resolutions of Virigina and Massachusetts against the Stamp Act]

A transmittal letter signed by Walpole as clerk for the Privy Council in the Court of St. James. Transmits resolutions from Virginia and Massachusetts proclaiming the Stamp Act illegal. The Stamp had been passed by Parliament earlier that year. Has a seal and watermark.

GLC03662.01

1765

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to amend... An Act for punishing mutiny... [amends Quartering Act]

5. George III. Required that provisions be made by the colonies for British soldiers

GLC03562.10

1765

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for granting and applying certain stamp duties... [Stamp Act]

original London edition of the Stamp Act

GLC03562.11

1766

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to repeal... An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties

[duplicate of GLC 3402]

GLC03562.12

1766

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for indemnifying persons [refunding fines to defiers of the Stamp Act]

GLC03562.13

1766

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for repealing certain duties... and for granting other duties [?coffee]

GLC03562.14

1766

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to amend... An Act for punishing mutiny... [amends Quartering Act]

GLC03562.15

1766

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the better securing the dependency of... America [Declaratory Act]

GLC03562.16

1767

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for restraining... the Governor, Council and House... of New York

A response to New York's resistance to the Townshend Acts.

GLC03562.17

1770

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to enable the Governor, Council & Assembly...of New York [reconstituting]

GLC03562.18

1773

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to explain and amend... An Act to prevent paper bills of credit....

GLC03562.19

1774

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the better regulating the government of... Massachusetts Bay

Reorganizing the government of Massachusetts. [one of the "Intolerable Acts"]

GLC03562.20

1774

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the impartial administration of justice [protecting Tory officials]

One of the five "Intolerable Acts"

GLC03562.21

26 May 1774

Read, George, 1733-1798

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Virginia Committee of Correspondence

Countersigned by Thomas McKean and John McKinley. Read, McKean, and McKinley were members of the Delaware Committee of Correspondence. Discusses the Boston Port Bill, nonimportation, and the formation of a continental congress.

GLC03718

19 June 1771

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Lee

Signed with initials "RHL". Describes the Regulator movement in North Carolina, a rebellion by backcountry farmers against lawyers, whose high legal fees and manipulation of debt laws were hurting them. North Carolina Governor William Tryon, although he claimed to agree with the insurgents, resorted to suppression by force: he "fell upon the unsuspecting multitudes and made great slaughter with cannons." The royal governor needed more than a thousand troops to defeat the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance on May 16, 1771.

GLC03719

June 8, 1765

Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Lord, 1692-178

Document signed

Title: [Land patent for Adams Stephen of Frederick County].

Fairfax was Lord Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia and the only resident Lord Proprietor in America. This document is docketed on verso and is accompanied by a paper seal. Docket reads " Adam Stephen Esqr. Deed For 306 Acres In Frederick County"

GLC03662.10

1758-1788

Mauger, Joshua, 1725-1788

Header Record

Title: Archive of correspondence re: Nova Scotia politics and mercantile affairs [partially decimalized]

Also mentions the Stamp Act, Bunker Hill and early Revolutionary War. Joshua Mauger Collection. [various places]: 343 items, 1619-1789 (bulk: 1763-1785). The greater part of the collection consists of 249 letters to Mauger, dealing primarily with his business interests in Nova Scotia and England. It also includes 4 letterbooks, letter copies written by Mauger while living in Halifax and England, and financial papers such as accounts, bonds and indentures owed to Mauger. Joshua Mauger (1725-1788) was a merchant who built his fortune through trade and alcohol distilling in British Nova…

GLC03902

20 June 1768

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Cary & Co.

Mentions enclosing invoices for goods (not included). Discusses tobacco sales. Criticizes English agents for selling tobacco at too low a price. States that, " ... I have lost (at least) four years out of five by Consignments having better prices offered in the Country than my Tobo. has sold for in England which is not only discouraging but almost sufficient to bring about a change in the System of my management." Laments that tobacco prices rose right after his tobacco was sold and informs that he knew this would happen, "That Tobo. would rise and sell almost as high as it ever had done…

GLC03933

15 November 1768

Blair, John, 1687-1771

Document signed

Title: [Announcement of amendment to law on slave trials for capital crimes]

Partially printed document signed by Blair as President of the Virginia Council and Commander in Chief of the colony to the justices of the peace of Buckingham County. Transmits amendments made to "An Act directing the Trial of Slaves committing Capital Crimes, and for the more effectual punishing Conspiracies and Insurrections of them, and for the better Government of Negroes, Mulattoes, and Indians, bound or free." Says the governor, and temporarily in Virginia the Commander in Chief, has the power to issue commissions of oyer and terminer to justices of each county empowering them "from…

GLC03970