1775 circa

Seymour, Thomas, 1735-1829

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certification of service for Zephaniah Briggs]

Certifies that Briggs served in Captain Benjamin Lee's company in 1758 as a private soldier.

GLC01450.131.02

1766/04/26

Letter

Title: [fragment]

Written at the Manor of Livingston, in Ancram, New York.

GLC03107.03745

1772/03/20

Pittman, Philip, fl. 1770-1772

Autograph letter signed

Title: re: his book and asking recipient to forward books from Madras India

GLC04344.02

1764/07/26

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter

Title: to [John Page?] re: corresponding, question of soul, desire for secrecy

A very early letter, one of the earliest in private hands concerning questions of metaphysics. Young Jefferson says he will protect their secrecy by not signing (or addressing) the letter.

GLC04366

1774/09/05

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: Letter from the General Congress at Philadelphia, September the 5th, 1774, to the People of Great Britain.

This document is a long broadside, printed in four columns and addressed to the people of Great Britain. The broadside says: "Know then, that we consider, and do insist that we are, and ought to be, free as our fellow subjects in Britain, and that no power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." Mentions numerous rights, including trial by jury. Someone has circled misspellings (or variations?) in pencil. (Sothebys suggested that this broadside was printed in Bristol, England. Apparently unrecorded.)

GLC04774

1773/07/02

Jenifer, Daniel of St. Thomas, 1723-1790

Manuscript document signed

Title: Legal bond of naval officer Richard Lee, Daniel Dulany & Benedict Calvert

Signing as Justice of the Peace. Lee was to assume the position of Maryland's Naval Officer of the port and district of the North Potowmack [isc].

GLC04842.26

1773/07/10

Johnson, William S., 1727-1819

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dudley Woodbridge re: offering assistance in a legal matter

Johnson offers to provide assistance in the case of Mr. Backus of Norwich "relative to certain Orders."

GLC04842.27

1765/08/02

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Burwell Bassett re: poor crops, election to House of Burgesses, Stamp Act

Writes about the dry weather's effects on crops, his loss of wheat to rust, etc. Washington also notes receipt of the Governor's proclamation proroguing the assembly

GLC04441

1774/10/20

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: The Association Agreed with the Grand American Congress... [non-importation]

One of 3 known copies

GLC04489

1775/02/02

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Rev. M. Morton re: seeking payment from tardy tenant of George Fairfax

"I could be no neighbor to a person who bore the Character you (justly, or unjustly....) did, there is no reason why Col. Fairfax (a third person) is to have the same Card to play over again next year in pursuit of another tenant." Washington acted as steward for Fairfax.

GLC07143

1775 ca.

Broadside

Title: To the King's Most Excellent Majesty [Welsh broadside, supporting King]

"The Humble Address of the High Sheriff... of the County of Carmarthen." Printed in Water-Street between the Coffee-House and the Old Ship. (No printer listed; Sheriff not named.) Urging subjects loyal to the crown "to take this opportunity of expressing our most hearty abhorrence... of these undutiful and traitorous practices of your majesty's subjects in America"

GLC07182

1774/07/19

Low, Isaac, 1735-1791

Broadside

Title: Proceedings of the Committee of Correspondence

New York's response to the Coercive Acts.

GLC07274

1769/12/18

Broadside

Title: A Citizen's Address to the Public re: support of Royal troops

Printed by John Holt, per manuscript note.

GLC07276

1772/07/02

Tryon, William, 1729-1788

Document

Title: Appointment of Dirck Jansen as Ensign of a militia on the Manor of Livingston

GLC03107.04907

1772/07/02

Tryon, William, 1729-1788

Document

Title: Appointment of Jan Decker as 1st Lieutenant of militia regiment on the Manor of Livingston

GLC03107.04908

1772/07/04

Tryon, William, 1729-1788

Document

Title: Appointment of Jacob Blatnaer as Captain of a regiment on the Manor of Livingston

GLC03107.04909

1772/07/04

Tryon, William, 1729-1788

Document

Title: Appointment of Marcus Coens as 1st Lieutenant of a militia on the Manor of Livingston

GLC03107.04910

1772/07/08

Tryon, William, 1729-1788

Document

Title: Appointment of Marte Ham as Captian of a militia on the Manor of Livingston

GLC03107.04911

1772/07/09

Tryon, William, 1729-1788

Document

Title: Appointment of Harme Coen as Captain of a militia on the Manor of Livingston

GLC03107.04912

1772/07/09

Tryon, William, 1729-1788

Document

Title: Appointment of Casparus Conein as Captain of a regiment on the Manor of Livingston

GLC03107.04913

1772/07/10

Tryon, William, 1729-1788

Document

Title: Appointment of Philip Klurn as Lieutenant of a militia on the Manor of Livingston

GLC03107.04914

1772/07/11

Tryon, William, 1729-1788

Document

Title: Appointment of Hendrick Clan as Captain of a militia regiment on the Manor of Livingston

GLC03107.04915

1768/05/14

Whiting, Nathan, fl. 1768

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Sir William Johnson

Criticizing General Lyman's account of Johnson's 1755 campaign against Crown Point: "I was not so surprised to see the rest of us stripped as I was to see you."

GLC08014.02

1763/01/16

Whitney, Joshua, fl. 1763

Autograph document signed

Title: Bill of Expenses

Bill of expenses providing for soldiers who became ill on march to Crown Point charged to Massachusetts Bay Colony.

GLC08014.05

February 18, 1773

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Indicates that he received Thomas Boylston's bill on Champion & Dickason for two hundred pounds sterling and an order for books. Expresses satisfaction with Knox's rebuttal of earlier accusations about underselling that Longman had heard from Knox's competitors (see GLC02437.00013). States that he is sending Knox five trunks and a box of books, and a statement of Knox's account for 1772 [not included]. Longman was a London bookseller.

GLC02437.00034