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1868 [?]
Republican Party
Paying Off the Democratic Public Debt
re: Civil War debts and "the legacy which the Democratic administration of James Buchanan bequeathed the Republican party."
GLC07722
7 April 1790
Higginson, Stephen, 1743-1828
to Henry Knox
Requests an appointment in government for his son. Discusses his, and the general population's, views on the current government. Writes that judging from the past, "there appears too much reason to fear yet further fluctuation, if not changes, in...
GLC02437.04578
15 May 1788
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Sarah Lyons Flucker
Wishes he could give her "a precise idea of the estate, of our late mother in this Country [Hannah Waldo Flucker] one half of which belongs to your children." Notes that the land is not yet divided and its boundaries have to be verified by the state...
GLC02437.03873
10 April 1784
to Hannah Flucker
Writing to his mother-in-law, Knox discusses the lands in the Waldo patent and other business matters.
GLC02437.09103
12 January 1790
Gorham, Nathaniel, 1738-1796
Asks for Knox's advice concerning the federal assumption of state debt, specifically the states of Massachusetts, Georgia, and North Carolina. Makes his own suggestions, and asks Knox to share it with Alexander Hamilton and others.
Signer of the U.S...
GLC02437.04470
20 January 1790
Discusses the issue of state debt, writing "We understand here that Mr. Hamiltons report on finance was to be made on Thursday last - various are the conjectures on the nature of it. Many suppose that a proposal for the assumption of the State debts...
GLC02437.04476
17 April 1790
Says he has been laid up for the past week with the gout. Discusses a proposed congressional bill to regulate proceedings with the Indians. Gorham wants this to be extended to the Six Nations, stating "it is of great consiquence [sic] that more...
GLC02437.04588
10 June 1791
Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814
Written by Massachusetts Congressman Gerry to Secretary of War Knox. Says he requested 26 shares in the Bank of the United States from Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Cox. Enclosed a $650 bank note "to make the first specie payment." Asks...
GLC02437.04983
1735/05/23
Thomas, fl. 1735
Bill of sale of a brigantine to Jonathan Clark
GLC03107.04734
[1739/05/26]
Storke, Sam, fl. 1739
to [?] re: shipping and mercantile services [fragment]
GLC03107.04736
1748/06/23
Douglass, Benajah, fl. 1747-1752
Promise to repay a debt to Daniel Tracy
GLC03107.04740
GLC03107.04741
1753/05/30
Massachusetts. General Court
Report of the Massachusetts Bay Assembly
The report orders that improvements be made on lands in the western part of Massachusetts.
GLC03107.04743
14 March 1786
Grayson, William, 1736-1790
Writes, "I received a tickett from you just as I was setting out from N York, & had not then time to answer it. I am sorry it is not now in my power to say any thing certainly on the subject matter of it. We yesterday had an audience before the...
GLC02437.03252
28 March 1796
to Abijah Hammond
No addressee listed, but previous research lists the addressee as "Abijah Hammond at New York." This information was added later in pencil. Unsigned, but handwriting suggests the author is Henry Knox. Mentions previous correspondence with Hammond...
GLC02437.06678
circa 1585-1763
Guide to handling money and finances [incomplete with fragmented pages]
The book contains instructions on how to fulfill various financial transactions, such as "Multiplication of Money," "Reduction," and the "Rule of Three." Extensive explanations and examples are given for each lesson.
GLC03107.04828
1766/09/24
Whiteman, Henry, fl. 1776
Account of Teunis van Vechten
Teunis van Vechten purchased buttons and a coat from Henry Whiteman.
GLC03107.04782
1820/06/12
Zimmerman, fl. 1820
to Mssrs. Lafarge, Patterson, & Havre re: trade in South America
Zimmerman writes that recent political unrest has left the South American provinces without a government, but hopes that a just system will be settled upon soon. He then describes how trade has been affected in the region. The letter is marked as a...
GLC03107.04789
Van Vechten, Teunis, 1707-1785
Order for tow cloth
GLC03107.04801
28 December 1788
to Alexander Hamilton
Asks for Hamilton's help if he is traveling to Albany. Is a purchaser, with Hamilton and others, of lands around the St. Lawrence River, the patents for which lands have been taken out of the Land Office in the name of Alexander Macomb. Aside from...
GLC02437.04063
4 December 1798
Hatch, Nathaniel, fl. 1798
Hatch expects that Knox will keep his word to let Hatch have "that pice of Land...being your part of the Eight hundred ackers Lying in Falmouth." Hatch would like to hear from Knox about "orders to take Care of the said Land."
GLC02437.07202
1694/11/06
Hamilton, Andrew, fl. 1676-1741
to Thomas & Francis Drake re: recommendation of Robert Livingston
Hamilton recommends Robert Livingston to the Drakes as a man to put in their service. Docketed on address leaf.
GLC03107.04834
11 March 1787
Discusses an issue concerning the salary of the governor. States that "One step they [the General Court] took[,] I am afraid[,] will be injurious in the approach[ing] election - which is that the two Towns passed a Bill to reduce the Governor salary...
GLC02437.03488
circa 1861-1865
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Political cartoon: "Uncle Abes Last Joke."
Drawing shows a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln surrounded by a collage of currency bills of different denominations. Three of the bills have George Washington's image on them, which is circled in each case. Imprint on image "Uncle Abes Last Joke...
GLC05111.02.1375
1861-1865 ca.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
Standing, three-quarters length view
E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher.
GLC05137.232
1838/05/07
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to William M. Price
Jackson writes of his reliance on the "virtue and incorruptibility, of the sovereign people" who will never surrender their sovereign power to the "despotic rule, and government, of a moneyed Rogocracy."
GLC05138
15 June 1865
Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891
to Colonel Ewell
Possibly to Richard S. Ewell. Johnston's wife, Lydia Mulligan McLane Johnston, wrote to Ewell two days before. Discusses the travels of other acquaintances in Virginia, including Mr. Paxson. Writes, "...we are here- Mainly in the hope that such an...
GLC05254
1791/01/26
Fenno, John, 1751-1798
Gazette of the United States. [Vol. 2, no. 78 (January 26, 1791)]
Concerning the proclamation by Washington and Jefferson defining the boundaries of the "Federal City on the Potomac" and Hamilton's closing remarks in a report on public credit. Two sheets, no longer joined.
GLC06960
1838
Parker, Mary, fl. 1838
Address to the free colored people of the United States
Published by Merrihew and Gun. Stab Stitched.
GLC06893
1920 ca.
Letters to Mrs. [Sarah Secor] Edward Bissell re: Suffrage [decimalized]
Four letters originally mounted on a board with ribbons and a "Votes for Women" felt banner in a display prepared ca. 1920. They were a part of the Bisselll Archive and Suffrage Memorabilia.
GLC06895
1897/06/18
Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906
to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: receiving funds for NAWSA
The letter also requests any letters written to Sarah Secor (Mrs. Edward) Bissell.
GLC06895.01
1890/06/13
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
to Mrs. Edward Bissel re: a letter acompanying leaflets
Leaflets started as "Almost anything will pass muster if well read....& the best thing can be spoiled if badly read."
GLC06895.02
1886/10/16
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: a thank you letter for the Toledo Report
The letter also wishes that all members "belonged to the American W.S.A."
GLC06895.03
1920/06/24
Upton, Harriet T., 1853-1945
to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: collecting histories of Ohio suffrage associations
GLC06895.04
[1917?]
Votes for Women [small yellow felt banner, with collateral bow]
Banner is on yellow felt. Accompanied by separate blue, red and yellow ribbon with bow). A later note indicates that the "chest bow" was owned by suffrage supporter Mrs. Walter Bissell.
GLC06895.05
1786/02/16
Supplement to the Daily Advertiser...
Contains report of Congressional Committee establishing a system of revenue. Trimmed. Docketed on p. 1 "Report of Congress, Feb 1786"
GLC06955
1817 [i.e., 1818]
Tracy, Destutt, fl. 1817
A Treatise on Political Economy [edited by Jefferson]
First American edition of this important economic work. Translation of French work. Ownership signature of Archibald Austin, a Virginia lawyer who was retained sometimes by Jefferson. The translation from the original French was gone over and...
GLC06987
1832
Say, Jean-Baptiste, fl. 1832
A Treatise on Political Economy [edited and signed by Clement C. Biddle]
Fuller title: "A Treatise on Political Economy; or the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wealth. Translated from the Fourth edition of the French by C. R. Prinsep, with notes by the Translator...containing a Translation of the Introduction...
GLC06988
1805
Alexander, Ann Tuke, 1767-1849
An address to the inhabitants of South Carolina [anti-slavery]
In original blue wrappers. Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Printed by Kimber, Conrad & Co.
GLC06992
1852/07/05
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester
First Edition by Lee, Mann & Co. Douglass' famous fourth of July oration, given on the fifth. Douglass was asked by the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society to give the oration on the fourth, choosing the topic "the meaning of the Fourth to the...
GLC06829
1842
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
The duty of the Free States, or remarks suggested by the case of the Creole
In original wrappers. Channing argues in favor of the slaves who had taken over the Creole, a slave ship. Steering towards the British West Indies, they won freedom under British law, even though the U.S. attempted to reclaim them. Blockson...
GLC06835
1788
The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for ... the Abolition of Slavery
Rest of title: "and the relief of free Negroes, unlawfully held in bondage, begun in the year 1774 and enlarged... To which are added the Acts of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania for the gradual abolition of slavery." First edition, printed by...
GLC06836
1836
Stuart, Charles, fl. 1836
A memoir of Granville Sharp
First edition; early publisher's cloth. Includes Patrick Reason's first published portrait engraving. Reason was an black artist. Collateral to Lincoln manuscript GLC 5302, referring to Granville Sharp.
GLC06841
1851/11/22
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
to President King, Columbia College; discusses Fugitive Slave Law
Printed circulat letter, addressed in Smith's hand.
GLC06852
1837
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Right and Wrong in Boston. Annual report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Soc.
Subtitle: "Annual report of the Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, with a sketch of obstacles thrown in the way of emancipation by certain clerical abolitionists and advocates for the subjection of women." Printed by Isaac Knapp. 16mo. Rebound...
GLC06860
1854/10/23
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
to Charles T. Beach re: printed circular letter on anti-slavery
"The present is the most auspicious period for the diffusion of antislavery statements." Counter signed by Francis Jackson.
GLC06862
1833
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880
An Appeal in the Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
First book of American abolitionist movement; inscribed in pencil with respects of "the author" to J. J. Dixwell. Exlibris stamp of Meadville Theological School on top, with duplicate sold stamp. Includes engravings.
GLC06867
1781
Barton, William, 1748-1831
Observations on the nature and use of paper credit
Includes proposals for a national bank. Ex-libris stamps.
GLC07038
1917/01/25
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
to Carrie C. Catt re: women's suffrage
President Wilson expresses solidarity with the woman's suffrage movement. "I have a very real interest in the extension of the suffrage to the women, and I feel that every step in this direction should be applauded." Catt headed the influential...
GLC07144
1895/01/04
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925
to I.J. Dunn
"Certainly there never was more urgent need for the vigorous enforcement of demecratic principles and never . . . a time when true democracy as taught by the fathers would be welcomed more heartily by the masses."
GLC07189
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