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[Certificate authorizing Robert Brent as Justice of the Peace for Washington, D.C.]

Serving as Secretary of the State Department, Rush certifies that Robert Brent is Justice of the Peace for Washington, D.C. Includes a United States Secretary of State Office seal.

GLC03436.12

[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....

GLC03436.13

[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...

GLC03436.14

[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

[Bill to establish a Naval Academy]

Reported by New Jersey Senator Samuel Lewis Southard. Authorizes the United States President to establish a naval academy. Establishes that the Academy will be under the direction of the President and Congress. Arranges for the appointment of...

GLC03436.17

[Carte de visite of George Armstrong Custer]

Printed by M. B. Brady & Company. Included with 4007.01 on bookshelf.

GLC04007.02

Regulating the Indian Department

House report submitted by Horace Everett, a representative from Vermont. Contains tables and documents related to United States treaty obligations, removal of Native Americans, and missionary work. Bound in back is a large folding map of the Indian...

GLC04132.01

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...

GLC04132.02

to Stephen Van Rensselaer

Informs that the bank bill has passed. Expresses his opposition to charter of second Bank of United States being granted. Talks negatively about the methods used to get the bank bill passed. Remarks, "In these days, I find, it is a very easy thing...

GLC04309.01

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...

GLC04309.02

[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...

GLC05120.01

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Confederated Tribes of Sac & Fox Indians

Concerns the cession of Sac and Fox reservation land in Wisconsin, their removal, and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President Andrew Jackson. Treaty arranged by Henry Dodge, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the...

GLC08055.36

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Tribe of Sac and Fox Indians of the Mississippi

Concerns the cession of Sac and Fox reservation land in Wisconsin, their removal, and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President Andrew Johnson. Treaty arranged by Lewis V. Bogy, William H. Watson, Thomas Murphy, Henry W. Martin...

GLC08055.37

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri and the Iowa Tribe

Concerns the cession of Sac and Fox reservation land in Missouri, their removal, the remuneration they will receive, and the transfer of some of the Iowa Indians reservation land to the Sac and Fox. Authorized by President Abraham Lincoln. Treaty...

GLC08055.38

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians

Concerns the cession of Stockbridge and Munsee lands in Wisconsin and Minnesota, their removal, and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President Franklin Pierce. Treaty arranged by Francis Huebschmann, Commissioner on the part of...

GLC08055.39

Treaty Between the United States and the Cow Creek Indians

Concerns the cession of Cow Creek lands in the Oregon Territory and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President Franklin Pierce. Treaty arranged by Joel Palmer, Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs on the part of the United...

GLC08055.40

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Tabeguache Band of Utah Indians

Concerns the cession of all Tabeguache land except for a designated reservation area, the right of Americans to build military posts and railroads on their land, the rights of Americans to mine there, and the remuneration the Tabeguache will...

GLC08055.41

Treaty Between the United States and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of Indians in Middle Oregon

Concerns the cession of their land, their removal, and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President James Buchanan. Treaty arranged by Joel Palmer, Oregon Superintendent of Indian Affairs on the part of the United States, and the...

GLC08055.42

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Winnebago Tribe of Indians

Concerns the cession of all Winnebago lands, particularly the tract known as the "Neutral Ground," their removal, and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President James K. Polk. Treaty arranged by Albion K. Parris, John J. Albert...

GLC08055.43

Treaty Between the United States and the Winnebago Indians

Concerns the cession of Winnebago reservation land granted in a previous treaty (see GLC08055.43) and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President Franklin Pierce. Treaty arranged by George W. Manypenny, Commissioner on the part of...

GLC08055.44

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Senecas, Mixed Senecas and Shawnees, Quapaws, Confederated Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, Ottowas of Blanchard's Fork and Roche de Baeuf, and Certain Wyandottes

Outlines various land cession and the remuneration the Indian groups will receive. Authorized by President Andrew Johnson. Treaty arranged by Lewis V. Bogy, William H. Watson, Thomas Murphy, George C. Snow, G.A. Colton, Commissioners on the part...

GLC08055.45

Treaty Between the United States and the Siseeton and Wahpaton Bands of the Dakota or Sioux Tribe of Indians

Concerns the cession of Sioux land, their removal, and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President James Buchanan. Treaty arranged by Charles E. Mix, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Siseeton and Wahpaton...

GLC08055.46

[Thomas Jefferson Engraving]

Engraving of Thomas Jefferson, based on the original portrait by Alonzo Chappel.

GLC01431.02

Colonial America

GLC01450.170.01

[Receipt for $1040 received from Theodore Sedgwick]

Money paid for the purchase of 1040 bushels of wheat.

GLC01450.232.02

[Receipt for sixteen shillings received from Captain Wallingford]

Money paid for "Mr. Meturen Rickers Rates for the year 1774."

GLC01450.232.03

[Permission for Samuel Barron "to come to Staeton Island"]

GLC01450.232.04

[Receipt for payment for doors]

Records partial payment received from Benjamin Storer for "two panel doers and one oueter doer." Halifax spelled "Halyfacks."

GLC01450.244.02

[Claim for payment of seventy pounds from the Colony of Rhode Island for a ten day journey to Albany, New York]

Order to fulfill Captain Cornell's request signed by First Deputy Francis Brayton on 28 December 1757. A note on the verso singed by Cornell reads: "Tho. Richardson Please to pay the Contents of the within order." Richardson was the General...

GLC01450.244.03

to Thomas Richardson

Letter cosigned by Thomas Cranston and Peter Bours, who along with Gardner, were members of the Rhode Island War Committee during the French and Indian War. Gardner orders General Treasurer Thomas Richardson to pay Robert Potter fifty pounds for...

GLC01450.244.04

[Notice of a fifteen pound payment to Thomas Arnold, Immanuel Northrup, and Stephen Potter, ordered by the General Assembly of Rhode Island]

States that the payment was ordered at a meeting on 21 August 1758 and to be made from the Rhode Island General Treasury. A note on the verso singed by Northrup indicates he received five pounds on 6 December 1859. Witnessed by Ward as secretary.

GLC01450.244.05

[Military instruction for Major General William Johnson during the French and Indian War]

Gives Johnson instructions for administering "the Defence and Protection of his Majesty's Territories against the French at Crown Point...and for removing Encroachments already made there..."

GLC01450.250.01

[Engraving of General Jeffery Amherst]

Accompanied Amherst letter from the French and Indian War (see GLC01450.277.01).

GLC01450.277.02

18th Century Documents [Decimalized .01- .04]

Two manuscript documents signed, 1709; one autograph document signed, 1796; one autograph document (an obituary). Accompanied by collateral book and research.

GLC01450.612

to George Coade

Requesting payment of a bill. Letter written at Spring Garden.

GLC01541.04.01

[Bill for a trip]

A bill for expenses incurred during a trip, totaling thirteen pounds, eight shillings.

GLC01541.04.02

Collection of two items: 10 Yen note signed in Kanji (Japanese) and Roman and a pamphlet in Japanese [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC01684

[Pamphlet in Japanese]

GLC01684.02

Document signed by Andrew Johnson, Indian Peace Medal, engraving of Johnson, and a lithograph of an Ioway Chief [Decimalized .01-.04]

GLC01993

[Hand-colored engraving of President Andrew Johnson]

GLC01993.03

[Lithograph of Wat-Che-Mon-Ne, Ioway Chief]

Published by Rice & Hart, printed and colored by Bowen. From The History of the Indian Tribes of North America, by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, and published between 1842 and 1870.

GLC01993.04

[Receipt from the United States Indian Department]

Receipt from the Indian Department to Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, for rental of offices between 1822 and 1828. Signed twice by Clark.

GLC02475.04.01

[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)...

GLC02475.04.02

[Stephen Douglas' representation of Kimball in Tillsen & Pitkin v. Kimball]

Legal document in case of Robert Tillsen and Seth Pitkin versus Edward Kimball regarding a mortgage foreclosure. Douglas, a lawyer and Senator from Illinois, states that the plaintiffs are to receive a sum of $4,790.

GLC03142.01

[Engraving of Stephen Arnold Douglas]

Published by R.R. Landon, Chicago, Illinois. Engraving of Stephen A. Douglas, a lawyer and Senator from Illinois.

GLC03142.02

Collection of three items related to Franklin D. Roosevelt [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC03181

to Franklin D. Roosevelt

Copy of a letter written to Roosevelt thanking him for his speech he sent her (see GLC03181.01,.02) and stating that she has put it in her treasure box. Gives her love to him and his wife, Eleanor.

GLC03181.03

to Elizabeth Blair

Blair, a seaman aboard the United States Ship Peacock, apologizes to his sister Elizabeth for not writing sooner. Informs Elizabeth that Navy orders prevent him from telling her details about his location, but mentions the ship is close to Rio de...

GLC03209.27.01

to Elizabeth Blair

Writes to his sister from the United States Ship Peacock. States that Captain William L. Hudson of the Peacock supported him in an affaire d'honour. Informs Elizabeth that women he met at a Ball in Valparaiso, Chile perceive Americans as "the...

GLC03209.27.03

to Elizabeth Blair Lee

Woodbury, wife of Montgomery Blair, invites Lee to visit Portsmouth and updates her on the affairs of mutual friends and acquaintances. Circa date is based on a reference Woodbury made regarding Lee's 1843 marriage.

GLC03209.27.05