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2 July 1863
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Treaty between the United States of America and the Klamath and Moadac Tribes and Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians
concluded October 14, 1864 proclaimed February 17, 1870
GLC04099.83
18 April 1859
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
Treaty Between the United States and the Makah Tribe of Indians
written on January 31, 1855
GLC04099.33
27 April 1859
Treaty Between the United States and the Mo-Lal-La-Las Indians
written on November 29, 1854
GLC04099.35
29 April 1859
Treaty Between the United States and the Nez Perce Indian
written on June 11, 1855
GLC04099.37
22 August 1860
Treaty Between the United States and the Deleware Tribe of Indians
written on May 30, 1860
GLC04099.39
23 March 1861
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Treaty Between the United States and the Winnebago Tribe of Indians
written on April 15, 1859
GLC04099.41
15 April 1862
Treaty Between the United States and the Pottawatomie Nation of Indians
concluded November 15, 1861 proclaimed April 19, 1862
GLC04099.43
7 March 1864
Treaty Between the United States and the Shoshhonee-Goship Bands of Indians
concluded October 19, 1863 proclaimed January 17, 1865
GLC04099.45
13 February 1866
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Treaty Between the United States and the Omaha Tribe of Indians
concluded March 6, 1865 proclaimed February 15. 1866
GLC04099.47
5 March 1866
Treaty Between the United States and the Lower Brule Band of Dakota or Sioux Indians
concluded October 14, 1865 proclaimed March 17, 1866
GLC04099.49
Treaty Between the United States and the O'Gallala Band of Dakota or Sioux Indians
concluded October 28, 1865 proclaimed March 17, 1866
GLC04099.51
Treaty Between the United States and the Sans Arc Band of Dakota or Sioux Indians
concluded October 20, 1865 proclaimed March 17, 1866
GLC04099.53
Treaty Between the United States and the Upper Yantonais Band of Dakota or Sioux Indians
GLC04099.55
concluded March 8, 1865 proclaimed March 28, 1866
GLC04099.57
22 May 1866
Treaty Between the United States and the Apache, Cheyenne and Arapahoe Tribes of Indians
concluded October 17, 1865 proclaimed May 26, 1866
GLC04099.59
5 July 1866
Treaty Between the United States and the Woll-Pah-Pe Tribe of Snake Indians
concluded August 12, 1865 proclaimed July 10, 1866
GLC04099.61
Treaty Between the United States and the Chippewa Indians of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, Michigan
concluded October 18. 1864 proclaimed August 16, 1866
GLC04099.63
26 June 1866
Treaty Between the United States and the Great and Little Osage Indians
concluded September 25, 1865 proclaimed January 21, 1867
GLC04099.65
7 March 1867
Supplemental Treaty Between the United States and the Ponca Tribe of Indians
concluded March 10, 1865 proclaimed March 28, 1867
GLC04099.67
17 April 1867
Treaty Between the United States and the Nez Perce Tribe of Indians
concluded June 9. 1863 proclaimed April 20, 1867
GLC04099.69
6 June 1868
Supplemental Article to the Treaty of July 19, 1866, between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation of Indians
concluded April 27, 1868 proclaimed June 10, 1868
GLC04099.71
25 July 1868
Treaty between the United States of America and the Crow Tribe of Indians
concluded May 7, 1868 proclaimed August 12, 1868
GLC04099.73
Treaty between the United States of America and the Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapahoe Tribes of Indians
concluded May 10, 1868 proclaimed August 25, 1868
GLC04099.75
14 October 1868
Treaty between the United States of America and the Senecas, mixed Senecas and Shawnees, Quapaws, Confederated Peorias, Kaskaskias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, Ottawas of Blanchard's Fork and Roche de Boeuf, and certain Wyandottes
concluded February 23, 1867
GLC04099.77
25 December 1860
Painter, Heber, 1841-1900
to sister Kate
Letter is entitled "My Christmas gift to Kate". Describes his walk down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Christmas shopping season. Visits the navy yard and barracks with his friend Russ and remarks that Uncle Sam does not consider Christmas a...
GLC02016.002
circa January 1856
Woodson, Obadiah, fl. 1856
[Slave Patrol Contract]
Appoints a captain to oversee a company of men for "Patrol duty at least two nights in each week; and on the Sabbath day to disperse all collections of negroes or boys violating the Ordinances of the Town. On all slaves found off their owner's...
GLC09122
1825
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
to Henry Jackson Knox [incomplete]
Appears to be fragments of two different letters, written by different people. The first letter, written by an unknown author, to an unknown recipient appears to be 2 pages, with the second part of the letter on the third page. Discusses the...
GLC02437.09993
13 March 1855
178 Sugar and Cotton Plantation Slaves!... [Slave sale catalogue from Waverly and Meredith plantations]
By J. A. Beard & May-…13th and 14th March, 1855… Will be Sold at Auction, at Banks Arcade, Magazine Street, in the City of New Orleans…" Catalogue of slaves, listed by families, individually described: "No. 1 field hand, fine axman, sawyer and hewer"...
GLC09340
7 May 1814
I am the bread of life.
GLC07299.098
20 August 1825
notes on Job 23.12
GLC07299.100
10 November 1824
Bellow, C.H., fl. 1824
Receipt for John Stanton
GLC07299.103
7 September 1818
Post, H., fl. 1818
[certifying Jahn Stanton's ownership of 10 shares of stock of fifty dollars each at the Franklin Bank]
GLC07299.054
25 February 1862
Higgins, Patrick, fl. 1859-1862
to Fannie Schoonmaker
Illegible. Ink has faded substantially, making it nearly impossible to read.
GLC02164.06
21 July 1860
Glad to see her picture in a letter that he received last Thursday. Has not heard from her in a long time. "Began to think you had forgotten me" because she had not responded to his last letter. Would "give anything" to see her. Remembers that they...
GLC02164.02
1815-1860
The letter has the same stamp as letter #8, so it could also have been written while Higgins was fighting in the Peninsular Campaign. Hopes the time will soon come when they will be reunited. Says he takes a great deal of comfort in writing, and...
GLC02164.09
7 March 1860
Brady, James, fl. 1860
to Alfred Edmund Burr
Declines invitation to aid the Democratic Party in Connecticut.
GLC02925.25
18 October 1890
Stoddard, Chester S., fl. 1890
to Paul Leicester Ford
Refers to a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Tristam Dalton, GLC07670.01. Regrets that years ago he tore off the address which had a free frank of Jefferson at the request of a friend who wanted the autograph. Identifies the recipient of that letter...
GLC07670.02
circa 1825
Harrison, Mary S., 1809-1842
[Stitch sample of Mary S. Harrison]
Small piece of off-white fabric with lines of various types of stitches in green thread. Originally from the sentiment book of Mary S. Harrison, GLC07732.02.
GLC07732.04
4 May 1840
Holabird, William S., 1794-1855
to Henry D. Gilpin
Holabird, United States District Attorney of Connecticut, writes to Gilpin, Attorney General. Relates that the Amistad case did not spend much time at the circuit court level, because "the counsel for the negroes [interposed?] a plea in abatement of...
GLC05636.05
January 1840
[Fragment of Antonio G. Vega's deposition given to United States District Attorney William S. Holabird] [incomplete]
Date inferred based on the relation of this document to GLC 5636.08 and .09. States "That he is a Spanish subject, that he resided in the Island of Cuba several years, that he knows the law of [struck: Cuba] that island on the subject of Slavery."...
GLC05636.07
[Antonio G. Vega's deposition given to United States District Attorney William S. Holabird]
States "that the Spanish edict prohibiting the importation of slaves from Africa, was not considered as applicable to that Island and was [inserted: then] wholly disregarded after slaves were landed... that the slaves on the plantations kept their...
GLC05636.08
November 1839
[Testimonies regarding the capture of the Amistad]
Possibly given at Connecticut District Court in November 1839. Marked "U.S." at the top. Begins with the testimony of Lieutenant Richard W. Meade, who led an armed party that initially boarded the Amistad, requesting the ship's papers. Includes...
GLC05636.11
[Testimonies regarding the capture of the Amistad; includes Cinque's testimony]
Created at Connecticut District Court in 7-9 January 1840 by or for William S. Holabird. Serves as notes of the testimony of Richard Robert Madden (head of the British Anti-Slavery [Mixed] Commission in Havana), Sullivan Haley (on board the USS...
GLC05636.13
9 January 1840
Marked "&c Cinqué" at top. Appears to be a continuation of GLC 5636.13. Testimony of Cinqué, leader of the Africans aboard the Amistad, continues. Contains the testimonies of Grabbo and Foolaqua, Amistad mutineers. Includes the testimony of...
GLC05636.14
23 September 1839
Forsyth, John, 1780-1841
to William S. Holabird
Forsyth states: "It is necessary to a just decision on the various points presenting themselves for the President's consideration in the case of the Spanish Schooner 'Amistad,' that the Department should be furnished, with a copy of the ships' papers...
GLC05636.17
6 January 1840
Forsyth discusses the Amistad case, revealing the administration's assumptions regarding the verdict of the trial. States that the Spanish minister had applied to the State Department for the "use of a vessel of the United States in the event of the...
GLC05636.18
17 January 1840
Fearing that his letter of 12 January had not reached Holabird, Forsyth reiterates President Van Buren's instructions regarding the Amistad. Writes "... I have to acquaint you with the desire of the President that you take the necessary measures to...
GLC05636.19
8 February 1840
Writes regarding arrangements made by the Spanish Government for Antonio, the slave cabin-boy on board the Amistad, to testify at an upcoming trial in New Haven, Connecticut. Discusses the Minister's obtainment of Jose Ruiz's and Pedro Montes's...
GLC05636.20
25 March 1840
Encloses a letter from the Spanish minister at Washington, D.C., a translation of the letter, and the printed copy of a treaty (not included) from 1835 between Great Britain and Spain intended to enforce restriction of the slave trade. Intends for...
GLC05636.21
30 April 1840
Relates that the Africans' defense team requested President Martin Van Buren to instruct Holabird to present copies of the 1817 Decree of the King of Spain, the 1838 ordinance of the Queen of Spain, and the 1817 Treaty between Spain and Great Britain...
GLC05636.22
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