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Appointing Tobias Lear as Consul to Algiers

GLC07658

to [Sally Fairfax] re: requesting herbal remedies and recipes

GLC07663

to James E. Montgomery

Written by Admiral Farragut to Major Montgomery as Acting Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. Says Montgomery's note of that morning arrived as he was going ashore to get "a small Brass" cannon at Fort Morgan that Captain Williamson promised him...

GLC07665

to unknown

Sends copies of "the act for establishing the...permanent seat of the government of the United States" in Washington, D.C. and an act providing for the payment of invalid pensioners (the actual copies are not included). The text of this letter is...

GLC07668

to Pierre C. L'Enfant

Requests a meeting to go over some papers Jefferson received from President Washington, so that the relationship between the commissioners superintending the building of Washington, D.C. and L'Enfant could be "entirely understood." L'Enfant designed...

GLC07669

to Tristam Dalton

Thanks him for the copy of Agriculture Magazine he sent. Regarding cattle feed, he states that instead of the widely used crops of carrots, potatoes, and beets, he recommends Jerusalem artichoke and succory (chicory). He describes the merits of...

GLC07670.01

to Henry Knox

General Washington informs General Knox of the British army's progress (possibly in the Hudson Highlands, New York). States "It would appear from a number of circumstances that they mean to press their operations against the posts on the highlands...

GLC07674

to Nathanael Greene

Informs Greene of the size of a British expeditionary force of 1600 men under the command of traitor Benedict Arnold. Also mentions conflicting reports of the battle at Blackstock Plantation in South Carolina between Continental General Thomas...

GLC07675

to Baron de Capellan de Sol re: letter of thanks

Highly complimentary letter of thanks for a gift received from the Patriotic Society of the City of Enkhuysen, The Netherlands. "Your station, Sir, and your Character in particular, have indeed merited the confidence and regard of the Confederate...

GLC07676

to Edmund Randolph re: debating legality of relocating Congress

GLC07677

to George Grenville re: Colden's conduct during the Stamp Act uprisings

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to George Grenville re: update of Assembly proceeding against Colden

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Copy of a circular letter to colonial governments re: taxes imposed on colonies

GLC07654.37

to George Grenville re: update of Assembly proceeding against Colden

GLC07654.38

to Dr. Thomas Moffatt re: anti-British sentiments in the Colonies

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GLC07654.39

to George Grenville re: Colden's vindication in the Assembly

GLC07654.40

to George Grenville re: death of Gov. Henry Moore

GLC07654.41

Some articles of intelligence . . . relating to the Ohio company

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Act for the Better Securing the Dependency of...America

GLC07655

Draft response to notification of election as President

"I accept the office given me by the free & unbiased suffrage, of a virtuous people, with feelings of the highest gratitude."

GLC07657

to Gov. Hancock re: praise for the Republican form of government

"The result of my reflections on republics are, that they are more productive of happiness, and an enlargement of the human mind, than any other sort of Government."

GLC07659

to Sir Charles Morgan re: current political revolutions in Europe

GLC07660

to Nathanael Greene re: news of the Peace Treaty

"I should think it prudent to maintain so respectable a force in Georgia and South Carolina as would discourage any attempt on them fin case the Negotiations should prove abortive."

GLC07661

to "Madam" re: descriptions of Paris and the opening of States General

"I had the Honor to be present on the fifth of this Month at the opening of the States General. A Spectacle more solemn to the mind, than gaudy to the Eye."

GLC07662

Log of Whaler "Hamilton"

Portrait of the Lincoln Assassination conspirator after his capture. By Gardner, printed circa 1880's.

GLC07664