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10 July 1776
Pangua, Francisco, fl. 1776
History of California Missions' income, gift and friars (in Spanish).
Including Serra, Palou and Crespi missions. (GLC06286.02 is physically joined to this item)
GLC06286.01
20 August 1776
Full list of friars at Colegio, Mexico and 18 friars in California missions (in Spanish).
Accompanying and joined to GLC06286.01
GLC06286.02
1775-1776
Moncada, Fernando de Rivera y, fl. 1775-1776
to Antonio Bucareli [Decimalized .01- .08]
Collection of eights letter concerning the California missions. Each letter is noted separately
GLC06287
9 January 1775
to Antonio Bucareli
Cover letter for diary of trip to San Francisco.
GLC06287.01
Ships el Principe and San Carlos in Monterey. Also status of provisions in San Diego and Monterey presidos.
GLC06287.02
27 August 1776
to Antonio Bucareli (in Spanish)
Diego Ermengildo Sal's appointment as head of San Francisco presido.
GLC06287.03
11 September 1776
Discusses food shortages and insufficient supplies.
GLC06287.04
16 September 1776
Discusses distribution of domestic animals among the missions.
GLC06287.05
22 September 1776
Rivera y Moncada, Fernando de, 1725-1781
Discusses Native American uprising of 9 August 1776. Comments on differences between Christians and "barbarian" Indians.
GLC06287.06
23 September 1776
Insufficient horses and mules and the potential violence of Indians makes reliable mail service difficult.
GLC06287.07
20 October 1776
Discusses building missions in San Diego and San Juan Capistrano. Also mentions soldiers in the stockade and checking on the families of troops.
GLC06287.08
1776/01-02
Inquiry and report re: Indian rebellion at San Diego Presidio, 1775 [in Spanish]
A 20 page report on the Summer 1775 uprising that consists of a continuous series of documents signed by Moncada (pp. 3, 5, 10, 13, 15, 16, 18 and 20) and Ortega (pp. 10, 12 and 14).
GLC06288
20 March 1747
Sadelmayer, Jacobo, fl. 1747-1751
to Juan A. Balthasar (in Spanish)
Need to establish five new missions in Primeria Alta, California and parts of Mexico and Arizona. Evaluation of likely places, information on local Indians and settlers, past problems and possible future complications.
GLC06289
November 1750-December 1750
[Relacion de la entrada (in Spanish)].
Detailed account of exploration, including discussions of the evaluation of Indian tribes' prospects for conversion, the desire to obtain horses, and the reputation of Father Kino.
GLC06290
1751
Supplementum ad historiam Primeria Alta (in Latin).
Description of expeditions of 1737 - 1748. Includes information about Indian settlements, customs and potential problems.
GLC06291
1698
Salvatierra, Juan María de, 1648-1717
to Antonio Abarea [in Spanish]
Addresses the audience of Guadalajara on the day of the birth of Our Lady of [Loreto]. Discusses the English threat, the weakness of the Spanish crown, and the general situation of the Catholic religion in Mexico.
GLC06292
26 November 1833
Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876
[Decree secularizing California missions and opening them to colonization].
GLC06294
circa 6 May 1773
Serra, Junipero, 1713-1784
Minutes of meeting of Vice Regal War Junta and Ministry of Treasury (in Spanish).
Includes a 32 point report by Serra on missionaries and soldiers of Ancillary presidios. Discusses discipline, temptations of flesh, criminal activities, supplies and attempts to separate military and religious aspects of the order in California.
GLC06295
24 October 1775
to Hernando de Rivera (in Spanish)
Discusses salaries and rations for servants at a California mission.
GLC06296.01
1775/10/24
re: description of precedent among soldiers re: rations and salaries, (in Spanish)
GLC06296.02
3 August 1771
Verger, Rafael, fl. 1771
to Manuel L. Casa Fonda (in Spanish)
Report on new missions in Monterey. Includes physical conditions of the buildings, abilities of missionaries, obstacles due to local resistance among Indians, settlers and California ranchers.
GLC06297
1857
Long, John Dixon, 1817-1894
Pictures of slavery in church and state; including personal reminiscences, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc. etc...
(title continues)... with an appendix, containing the views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on slavery. Published by Long, an abolitionist and minister of the Philadelphia annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In conclusion...
GLC06232.05
28 July 1864
Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867
A Proclamation for a day of humiliation and prayer.
Reprinting of Lincoln's proclamation of 7 July 1864 calling for a day of prayer for the people of the United States in order to bring about the end of the Civil War and the continuation of the Union. Printed again by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
GLC06234
20 April 1873
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
[Woman's Festival of Universal Peace].
Written on an offprint of a brief essay by Howe from an 1873 issue of the "Woman's Journal." Howe asks for help to achieve the goals outlined in the essay. Includes a prayer by Mary N. [illegible]: "the root of evil of women's position begins in the...
GLC06242
1833/03/22
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
[Retained clerical copy of a treaty between the United States and the Ottawa Indians]
Manuscript copy of the treaty made on 18 February 1833 between the Ottawa chiefs "residing on the Indian Reserves on the Miami of Lake Erie" and George B. Porter, the United States commissioner. Outlines the cession of Ottawa land in Ohio, the...
GLC07392
1878/01/01
Vallarta, I.T., fl. 1878
Translation of Account of Relations between Mexico and Pawnee Tribes of Texas
Consists of clerical transmittal, bound with a copy of the treaty written in the same hand.
GLC07389
1834
[Advertisement for A Narrative of the Captivity & Providential Escape of Mrs. Jane Lewis]
Illustrated publication advertisement for a recently published book about Lewis experience as a captive of Chief Black Hawk during the Black Hawk War. Published in the aftermath of the war after Black Hawk was taken as a captive on a tour for the...
GLC07390
1825/08
Contemporary copy of Treaty of Prairie Du Chien (WI) [Schoolcraft copy]
Copy of Henry R. Schoolcraft, the 19th century scholar and ethnologist of Native Americans. Tied with green ribbon
GLC07391
1861
Pike, Albert, 1809-1891
Treaty with [the Confederacy and] Cherokee
Co-authored by John Ross. Treaty signed 7 October.
GLC07393
1866
Communication of the Delegation of the Cherokee Nation to the President...
Correspondence between John Ross, Principal Chief, and certain officers of the Rebellious States: Defending Cherokee Treaty with Confederacy; the Cherokee Constitution allowing for slavery and segregation of blacks.
GLC07384.06
1860/10/04
Ross, John, 1790-1866
Message of the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the National Council
Delivered October 4, 1860. Uncut.
GLC07384.04
1883/11/07
Bushyhead, Dennis W., 1826-1898
First Annual Message (second term)
Speech delivered at Talequah by principal chief of Cherokee Nation.
GLC07384.05
1862/03/20
to John Ross re: requesting necessary papers to capture fugitive slave
The slave was wanted for the crime of horse stealing.
GLC07385.01
1862/02/20
Rector, H.M., fl. 1862
calling for Cherokee Nation to remove and deliver "Jack" to Albert Pike
"Jack a negro man...charged with horse stealing...has fled". (Extradition request?)
GLC07385.02
14 December 1864
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
[Authority to affix the seal of the Unites States to a treaty with the Tabeguache Band of Ute Indians]
Partially printed authority for a treaty concluded on 7 October 1863.
GLC07394
17 January 1865
[Authority to affix the seal to treaty with Northwestern Shoshonee Indians].
Lincoln authorizes a treaty with the Northwestern Bands of Shoshonee Indians dated July 30, 1863. The treaty was made at Box Elder, Utah Territory. Brigadier General P. Edward Connor, commander of the military district of Utah, and Commissioner James...
GLC07395
1870
Treaties between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation, from 1785
Was written while it was Cherokee Nation Territory.
GLC07396
7 July 1832 - 11 January 1839
Conyers, Thomas, 1795-1879
[Soldier letterbook from the Black Hawk War]
Letterbook of Major Conyers, commander of the mounted Detachment from 1st Regiment Missouri Volunteers during the Black Hawk War. This bound volume contains orders, memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence, company appraisements and...
GLC07381
1886
Bourke, John G., 1846-1896
An Apache campaign in the Sierra Madre: An account of the expedition in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883
Published by Charled Scribner's Sons. Dedication included on the first blank page to C. M. Lanitis Jr. from Mrs. Lieutenant Seyburn, May 1886. Describes a campaign led by General George Crook against the Chiricahua Apache Tribe in 1883. In the...
GLC07380.02
1840
Constitution and Laws of Cherokee Nation
Constitution of reunited tribes.
GLC07382
1868
Laws of the Cherokee Nation...
Acts passed 1839-1867, compiled by National Council.
GLC07384.01
1881
Rasmus, William T., fl. 1881
Compiled Laws... Cherokee Nation
Laws passed in Talequah Indian Territory; presentation copy by assistant executive secretary of Cherokee Nation.
GLC07384.02
1890
Constitution, Treaties and Laws of the Chickasaw
Inscribed to D. Fisher. Written from the Indian Territory of Atoka.
GLC07384.03
circa 1845
American Republican Party of Kingston
American Republican Town Nominations. "Beware of Foreign Influence"
Nativist Election broadside, with large eagle, by the American Republican Party of Kingston attacking Roman Catholic immigrants. "Beware of Foreign Influence" is attributed to Washington's Farewell Address. Prints the address of John Young as...
GLC07450
1866/01/29
Parsons, Lewis B., fl. 1866
to unknown recipient re: reconstruction in New Orleans
"It is a bad place-a hard set to deal with; men full of corruption...the Angel Gabriel could not avoid being villanously traduced."
GLC07451
1863
Theresa, Sister, fl. 1863
Pen and ink portrait of Chief Nurse of Ward J. Satterlee
Depicts a women in a religious habit, with rosary, and holding an open book. Attached to a ruled sheet with ink note identifying the person. She worked in the U.S. General Hospital (Philadelphia)
GLC07452
1775/04/15
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
In Provincial Congress. [Massachusetts broadside re: day of fasting and prayer]
Broadside calling for a day of fasting and prayer. (Trimmed)
GLC07467
1776/08/02
McClintock, Samuel, fl. 1776
to William Whipple re: religious freedom and framing constitution
GLC07481.01
19 September 1823
Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843
to unknown
Written by Key, the penman of the Star Spangled Banner and a founding member of the American Colonization Society, as an attorney to an unknown reverend. Says he would like to join him on the 30th, but cannot because court will be in session. Appears...
GLC07483.02
23 September 1772
Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813
to Anthony Benezet
Written by the British abolition leader Sharp to the American Quaker abolition leader Benezet. References Benezet's letter of 14 May 1772. Sends him (not included here) a short answer he "drew up to check the insinuations of those persons who pretend...
GLC07483.03
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