1770

Great Britain. Acts.

Document

Title: Act to continue...an act...for the better payment of the army and their quarters

The Quartering Act, which modified previous acts dealing with punishing munity and desertion, better pay, and quartering for the army. Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan. Paginated 315-316 + unpaginated title page.

GLC03971

1763

Great Britain. Treaties.

Book

Title: Treaty of peace between England, France and Spain

Printed in French.Peace treaty that ended the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada to England and Louisiana to Spain.

GLC03985.07

31 March 1773

Mahony, James, fl. 1773

Document signed

Title: [Contracts relating to the indenture of James Mahony]

Partially printed. Binds Mahony to serve Hugh Fallon for four years, after his arrival in New York. Relates that Fallon is Master of the Brig [Pachett?]. Signed by John Roe, Mayor of Cork. Includes Mahony's mark. On verso, contains the signatures of Andrew Gautier, Hugh Fallon, James J. Graham, and Elias Hardenbergh. Gautier signs 26 June 1773 as Alderman of the New York City dock ward and justice of the peace, attesting to Mahony's indenture and arrival date. Fallon signs 26 June 1773, conveying Mahony to James Graham of Ulster County, Ireland, for the price of fifteen pounds, ten…

GLC04110

1774

Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813

Pamphlet

Title: A Declaration of the people's natural right to share in the legislature...

GLC04168

16 March 1775

Laurens, John, 1754-1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Laurens

Written by John Laurens as a law student at Middle Temple in London to his father Henry Laurens as a member of the First Provincial Congress of South Carolina. Has time to write because Mr. Curling is detained. Says he is sending the fourth number of the Parliamentary Register and other papers. Says Mr. Simmons is returning to America with Curling, but that their friend Dean's health keeps him from making the voyage. Says a letter from him will work wonders. Says some friends have inquired about Henry's health. Mentions that his friend Mr. Taylor has said "that the present Dispute between…

GLC04343.02

1770

Pittman, Philip, fl. 1770-1772

Book

Title: The Present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi [1st ed.]

First book in English concerning the Illinois region. By Captain Philip Pittman.

GLC04344.01

1775-1779

Header Record

Title: Correspondence between Cyrus Griffin and Burgess Ball [Decimalized .01-.05]

GLC04377

1775

Montrésor, John, 1736-1799

Map

Title: A Plan of the City of New York & its environs

Actual title: "A Plan of the City of New-York & its environs..." Shows Manhattan Island up to Greenwich Village. Hand colored.

GLC04315

February 26, 1775

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Autograph note signed

Title: to David Hartley

Signed in text in the opening of the note and written in the third-person: "Dr. Franklin presents..." Sarcastically explains British methods for taxing the American colonies. Date from docket.

GLC04632

February 1, 1766

Thornton, Mathew, fl. 1766

Autograph document signed

Title: [Deposition of Martha Campbell regarding paternity of her child].

In a paternity case, the deposition states "...on or about the month of July last past one Thomas Lennen of Londonderry or Windham Aforesd. Weaver, in the House of one Henry [illegible] Of Windham Aforesd. Yeoman, Did Enter her Body, & recd Knowledge of her, Whereby this Examinant, is now with Child,...."

GLC04852

6 November 1771

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Instructing Paul Farmer to admit an indigent man to a Boston poorhouse].

Signed by Hancock and Jonathan Mason as Selectmen of Boston. Consented to by W. Greenleaf as Overseer of the Poor. Farmer is described as a stranger and "not an Inhabitant of any Town in this Province."

GLC04724

1 October 1772

Drayton, Stephen, 1736-1810

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Houstoun

Discusses an ongoing land dispute between Button Gwinnett and himself. Houstoun was a lawyer in Savannah, Georgia.

GLC04777

October 31 1774

Dawe, Philip, fl. 1750-1785

Print

Title: The Bostonian's Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring & Feathering

Engraving attributed to Philip Dawe, with hand-coloring. Shows the Boston Tea Party in the background, a "Liberty Tree" with a paper "Stamp Act" affixed upside-down, with five unsavory Bostonians forcibly pouring a pot of tea into the mouth of a tarred and feathered tea excise collector. Printed for Robert Sayer and J. Bennett, October 24, 1774. Dawe was a British mezzotint engraver.

GLC04961.01

1772

Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793

Print

Title: The Young sweep in love, or the house-maid's conquest [mezzotint with color]

Mezzotint printed by Carrington Bowles, 7th May 1772. Depicts a short and filthy chimney-sweep embracing a house-maid, while an obscured figure watches in the background (and puts food in his mouth). The poetry appears to be a parody of Dryden's "Alexander's Feast."

GLC04961.02

1772

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

Book

Title: [The Holy Bible; inscribed by Benjamin Rush].

Presented by him to his daughter, Ann Emily Rush.

GLC04998.01

February 24, 1797

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Carlos Martinez de Yrujo

One letter from Timothy Pickering to Carlos Martinez de Yrujo, Spanish Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, dated February 24, 1797. Pickering wrote in his role as Secretary of State, in a matter related to ships and a treaty between Spain and the United States. "The Secretary of State takes the liberty to inclose the forms of sea-letters now given to vessels of the United States, one of which may be adopted and translated into Spanish, if the Chevalier de Yrujo has no form annexed to the copy of the treaty between Spain and the United States in his possession. The Secretary prays…

GLC10129

1774

Woolman, John, 1720-1772

Book

Title: The works of... in two parts

Includes his Journal and his both parts of his essay "Some considerations on the keeping of negroes." A seminal work published in part I (1754) and part II (1762) on Christian objections to slavery. First edition printed by Joseph Crukshank. Evans 13787, Howes W-669'aa'.

GLC06191

1763

Book

Title: Laws of New York, 1691-1762

First complete, condensed compilation. vol. 1 created 1752, vol. 2 created 1762

GLC06259

1765

Rogers, Robert, 1731-1795

Book

Title: Journals of ... several excursions ... during the late war

[Complete title] "Journal of Major Robert Rogers containing an account of the several excursions he made under the generals who commanded upon the continent of North America, during the late war." Printed for the author. With 3 pages of advertisements. With manuscript bill of account pasted on front pastedown signed by Noah Smith and countersigned by Elijah Williams.

GLC06260

9 January 1775

Moncada, Fernando de Rivera y, fl. 1775-1776

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Antonio Bucareli

Cover letter for diary of trip to San Francisco.

GLC06287.01

26 December 1774

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mercer

Written by Washington a month after the adjournment of the first Continental Congress to Mercer as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Informs Mercer of the cost of purchases made for him in Frederick, Maryland including £29 for a slave named Kate. Says the whole of Mercer's purchase was for £2385.14.2. Has heard nothing from Colonel Payton on the Loudoun County land for which Mercer was charged. Washington is involved in a disputed land deal through Mercer for Gray & Adams land, and he writes that it appears that the land in question is 56 acres short of the 1224 he was going to…

GLC06335

6 November 1772

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Survey for distribution of land among Virginia veterans of French and Indian War]

Crawford's survey of lands west of the Ohio and Great Kanawha Rivers. Signed by William Crawford. At the bottom, Crawford writes the names of five "sworn Chairmen and Markers." Washington adds his faded seven line autograph note on verso.

GLC06346

circa 6 May 1773

Serra, Junipero, 1713-1784

Manuscript document

Title: Minutes of meeting of Vice Regal War Junta and Ministry of Treasury (in Spanish).

Includes a 32 point report by Serra on missionaries and soldiers of Ancillary presidios. Discusses discipline, temptations of flesh, criminal activities, supplies and attempts to separate military and religious aspects of the order in California.

GLC06295

3 August 1771

Verger, Rafael, fl. 1771

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Manuel L. Casa Fonda (in Spanish)

Report on new missions in Monterey. Includes physical conditions of the buildings, abilities of missionaries, obstacles due to local resistance among Indians, settlers and California ranchers.

GLC06297

1773

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784

Book

Title: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Poems written by the "Negro Servant" of John Wheatley of Boston. Printed at London by A. Bell and sold in Boston by Cox and Berry. First edition copy. The first book of poetry by an African American. Bound in nineteenth century vellum, with heraldic bookplate with the name "Stainforth." With frontispiece engraved portrait of Wheatley writing. Dedication to Countess of Huntington on 12 June 1773. Phillis Wheatley was brought from Africa at the age of seven or eight, taught to read and write (in the family), and eventually began to write poetry, as her master describes in the prefatory…

GLC06154