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5 August 1797
Beaumez, M. de (Bon-Albert Briois), 1759-1809
to Henry Knox [incomplete]
Informs Knox that he wishes to return to America soon, but has decided to stay in India, after consulting with his wife.
GLC02437.09991
1800
Madison, James, 1751-1836
Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly... re: division of power, constitution
Also concerning constitutional rights and the Alien and Sedition Acts. Evans 38460
GLC02446
9 September 1782
Washington, George, 1732-1799
to Henry Knox
Proposes use of prisoners as armorers, discusses trial of Sergeant Spinoza [Spinosa] for treason, requests help organizing the Department of the Commissary of Military Stores and wonders if "it be possible to get the field pieces directed to be...
GLC02437.09358
1 February 1774
Bernard, Francis, 1712-1779
to Thomas Flucker
Writes that he has been waiting to hear about Flucker's son's commission, but has not yet. Is very unhappy about the status of Colonel [Thomas] Goldthwait's application to settle the town of Frankfort, in the Waldo patent, and discusses how it...
GLC02437.09089
26 August 1786
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Samuel Brown, Jonathan Crocket, and Robert Jameson
Signed by Knox and Isaac Winslow Jr., though both signatures, as well as the letter's content, are in Knox's hand. Addressed to Brown, Crocket and Jameson as members of a Committee for Thomaston. Document suggests regulations and procedures for...
GLC02437.09155
21 September 1788
[List]
Document is not signed but appears to be in Henry Knox's handwriting. A list of islands and its inhabitants lying east of Carvers Island, Maine. Date was added later in pencil.
GLC02437.09187
23 September 1788
[Land agreement]
Document is signed by Henry Knox, Samuel Winslow, Isaac Winslow, and numerous others inhabitants. A land agreement involving Henry Knox, Samuel Winslow, Isaac Winslow (the heirs and representatives of the late Brigadier General Samuel Waldo), and...
GLC02437.09188
1783-1815
[List of islands and inhabitants east of Carver's Island]
List of three islands and the people who live on them.
GLC02437.09213
October 1752
List of people sent to a settlement. Includes unrelated notes regarding finances.
GLC02437.08960
29 June 1753
Davis, B., fl. 1753
List of people and supplies.
GLC02437.08965
31 December 1753 - 8 August 1754.
Bulfinch, John, fl. 1753
[Sale of land]
Contract for the sale of land. Signed by John Philips and Jacob Ridgway as witnesses, with notes of receipt from John Philips, dated 31 December 1753 and Ezekiel Goldthwait dated 8 August 1754.
GLC02437.08972
1753
Lists passengers from Amsterdam by name and date of arrival.
GLC02437.08973
1753-1755
List of supplies for Isaac Winslow for a settlement. Transactions listed by date.
GLC02437.08978
22 February 1769-11 March 1769
Schnaudiel, John Willhem, fl. 1769
[Complaint from settlers at Broad Bay]
Signed by Schnaudiel as well as over twenty others. The authors, all German by birth, allege that in 1753, they were approached in Germany by Samuel Waldo, Jr. and offered settlement at Broad Bay in New England. The authors sold their homes in...
GLC02437.09057
May 1773
[List of German settlers on east side of Broad Bay]
List of German settlers on the east side of Broad Bay received from the Schoolmaster in May 1773.
GLC02437.09082
26 February 1747
Burns, William, fl. 1747
[William Burns's declaration regarding the Muscongus settlement]
Burns discusses his settlement on Samuel Waldo's Muscongus Patent (also known as the Waldo or Linconshire Patent, land in present-day Maine). Discusses improvements Burns made to a stone house, and mentions his black cattle. Burns was given command...
GLC02437.10410
Campbell, John, fl. 1747
[John Campbell's declaration regarding the Damariscotta River settlement]
Attests that he took up land in an area under the charge of Colonel [David] Dunbar. Dunbar was replaced by Colonel Samuel Waldo, and some families left the area while others remained. The greatest concentration of settlers dwelled in the township...
GLC02437.10411
circa 1758
Noted as a copy. A list of settlers at St. Georges River, "Medumcook" [Meduncook], and Broadbay, Maine. Settlers are listed by town. Docket notes the list was supposedly written by Captain John North the original list is in Samuel Winslow's...
GLC02437.10641
1837
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Fifth annual report of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, with some account of the annual meeting, January 25, 1837.
First edition. Printed by Isaac Knapp. List of lifetime members of the Society on the back cover. Contains a report and proceedings of the annual meeting, which began on 25 January. One section of the report states: "Abolitionists may not...
GLC00267.051
1839
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
Remarks on the slavery question, in a letter to Jonathan Phillips Esq.
Attacks colonizationists like Senator Henry Clay, "who dream of removing slavery by the process of draining it off to another country; a process about as reasonable as that of draining the Atlantic." He also argues that colonization confirms racial...
GLC00267.052
1851
Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856
Slavery in the United States: its evils, alleviations and remedies.
Reprinted from the North American Review. Sees colonization as the only solution to slavery. "Were legal slavery abolished at the South, it would probably be centuries before it could be abolished from the Southern mind." Believes abolitionist...
GLC00267.056
1864
Murphy, John, 1812-1880
Proceedings of the bench and bar of Baltimore, upon the occasion of the death of the Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Prints speeches of Maryland lawyers and judges eulogizing Taney. Includes speeches of William Price, District Attorney, Judge Giles, Mr. Wallis, William Schley, Judge Merrick, Andrew Sterett Ridgely, and Reverdy Johnson, an abolitionist who...
GLC00267.059
1865
Baker, Godwin & Co.
The unjust judge. A memorial of Roger Brooke Taney, late Chief Justice of the United States.
Contains a critical review of Taney's career and his decision in the Dred Scott case, where he upheld the existing slavery laws. Discusses the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as they relate to the issue of slavery in the United...
GLC00267.060
1857
Nott, Samuel, 1788-1869
Slavery and the remedy; or, the principles and suggestions for a remedial code.
"Fifth edition: with a review of the decision of the supreme court in the case of Dred Scott." First edition published after Dred Scott, with a review of the case. Nott is an apologist for the court. Reminds readers of the possibility of secession...
GLC00267.061
1827
North Carolina, General Assembly
Acts passed at the general assembly of the state of North Carolina, at its session, commencing on the 25th of December, 1826.
Signed by [Danl S. Paterson?]. Printed by Lawrence & Lemay. Includes an act prohibiting trading with enslaved people, an act regulating the survey and sale of lands recently acquired from the Cherokee, and "An act to prevent free persons of colour...
GLC00267.063
1840
Slade, William, 1786-1859
Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the right to petition; the power of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia;...
Title continues, "...the implied faith of the north and the south to each other in forming the constitution; and the principles, purposes, and prospects of abolition." Slade, a Congressman from Vermont, protests the Gag rule, which prohibited the...
GLC00267.093
1841
Ingersoll, Charles J., 1782-1862
Speech of Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania, on the subject of the reception of abolition petitions.
Speech given in the House of Representatives 8 & 9 June 1841. Printed at the Globe Office, Washington, D.C.
GLC00267.094
1844
Severance, Luther, 1797-1855
Speech of Mr. Severance, of Maine on the right of petition.
Delivered in the House of Representatives, 16 February 1844. Discusses the ban on receiving any petitions regarding the abolition of slavery in the House of Representatives. Printed by J. and G.S. Gideon, Washington, D.C. Partially uncut.
GLC00267.095
1845
Stewart, Alvan, 1790-1849
A legal argument before the Supreme Court of the state of New Jersey... for the deliverance of 4,000 persons from bondage.
Delivered at the May term in Trenton, New Jersey. Challenges state laws concerning slavery because they contradict New Jersey's 1844 constitution which abolished slavery. Published by Finch & Weed, New York. Printed by S.W. Benedict.
GLC00267.069
1856
Jagger, William, fl. 1856
To the people of Suffolk Co. Information, acquired from the best authority, with respect to the institution of slavery.
Suffolk County in New York. First edition. Printed by R. Craighead, New York.
GLC00267.080
1847
Bushnell, Horace, 1802-1876
Barbarism the first danger. A discourse for home missions.
Claims that slavery has diminished southern society. Printed for the American Home Missionary Society, by William Osborn in New York. Bushnell was the pastor of the North Church in Hartford, Connecticut.
GLC00267.081
1860
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847
Daniel O'Connell upon American slavery: with other Irish testimonies.
Anti-Slavery tracts no. 5, new series. Published by the American Anti-slavery Society.
GLC00267.088
1870
Lyman, Theodore, 1833-1897
Papers related to the Garrison mob.
Describes the October 1835 mob which kept William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper, from having a meeting where Mr. George Thompson, an abolitionist, was to speak. Garrison had to be put in the jail to be...
GLC00267.089
Keep, John, fl. 1837
An address, delivered December 22, 1837, in the village of Lockport, N.Y. commemorative of the martyrdom of Rev. E. P. Lovejoy, who was killed by the mob...
Title continues, "... in the city of Alton, Ill., on the night of November 7, 1837." Elijah P. Lovejoy was a Presbyterian minister, editor of a religious newspaper who was killed by a pro-slavery mob. Keep was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church...
GLC00267.090
Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887
Remarks of Henry B. Stanton in the Representatives Hall... on the subject of slavery.
Delivered on 23 and 24 February before the Committee of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. Published by Isaac Knapp in Boston. Protests the Gag rule passed by Congress which stated that slavery in the District of Columbia could not be...
GLC00267.092
1820
Sergeant, John, 1779-1852
Speech of Mr. Sergeant, on the Missouri question.
First edition. Speech delivered in the House of Representatives arguing that Missouri should be added to the Union as a free state. Sergeant was a Congressman from Pennsylvania.
GLC00267.098
1855
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
The trial of Theodore Parker for the "misdemeanor" of a speech in Faneuil Hall against kidnapping, before the circuit court of the United States...
(title continues)... at Boston, April 3, 1855. With the defence. Published for the author. Other works by Parker are listed on the last two pages.
GLC00267.096
1819
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
A memorial to the Congress of the United States on the subject of restraining the increase of slavery in new states to be admitted into the Union.
Memorial from the citizens of Boston. "Prepared in pursuance of a vote of the inhabitants of Boston and its vicinity, assembled at the State house, on the third of December, A.D. 1819." Committee composed of Daniel Webster, George Blake, Josiah...
GLC00267.097
Allen, George, 1792-1883
An appeal to the people of Massachusetts, on the Texas question
Appeals to the people to oppose the annexation, arguing that adding Texas to the Union will further entrench and empower the institution of slavery. Suggests holding a convention. Attributed to "A Massachusetts Freeman." Printed by Charles C...
GLC00267.104
1850
King, T. Butler, 1800-1864
T. Butler King's report on California...
Title continues "Message from the President of the United States Title continues "Message from the President of the United States transmitting the report of T. Butler King, esq., heretofore appointed bearer of despatches and special agent to...
GLC00267.132
Stuart, Moses, 1780-1852
Conscience and the constitution with remarks on the recent speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster on the subject of slavery.
Published by Crocker & Brewster. Stuart discusses the problems of ending slavery. In closing, writes "The last thing I have to say, is, to ask the question, whether it would not be a feasible thing, and the best thing we can do, to colonize the...
GLC00267.138
Clark, Rufus Wheelwright, 1813-1886
A Review of the Rev. Moses Stuart's pamphlet on slavery, entitled conscience and the Constitution.
Published by C. C. P. Moody. Clark, pastor of the North Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, rebuts Stuart's argument regarding slavery (Stuart argued for colonization; refer to GLC00267.138). In closing, writes "...notwithstanding the strong...
GLC00267.139
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Review of Webster's speech on slavery.
Published by the American Anti Slavery Society in Boston, Massachusetts. Printed by J.B. Yerrinton and Son, Printers, Boston.
GLC00267.140
09 January 1851
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Anti-fugitive slave law meeting: at a large meeting of persons from various parts of the state of New York, held in the City of Syracuse January 9th 1851...
[Title continued] and of which Frederick Douglass was president, the following resolutions and address were unanimously adopted. The Address is the same, and, with an inconsiderable exception, the Resolutions are the same, as those, which were...
GLC00267.143
The South Bend fugitive slave case, involving the right to a writ of habeas corpus.
Reports on the legal case of Norris vs. Newton. Case pertains to an enslaved person seeking emancipation. Marked for sale at the Anti-slavery office, 48 Beekman Street, 1851.
GLC00267.144
New England Emigrant Aid Company
Memorial of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, praying indemnification for the destruction of property, at Lawrence, Kansas, May 21, 1856.
37th Congress, 3d Session, Senate. Mis. Doc. No. 29. Offers eye-witness accounts of the sack of Lawrence, Kansas, including an account submitted by William Hutchinson, secretary of the Kansas Central Committee and a special correspondent for the...
GLC00267.159
Argument of Wendell Phillips, Esq. before the Committee on Federal Relations, (of the Massachusetts Legislature,) ...
Title continues "... in support of the petitions for the removal of Edward Greely Loring from the office of Judge of Probate." Inscribed with the initials W.P. to Albert G. Brown. Calls for the removal of Massachusetts probate Judge Loring because...
GLC00267.149
1859
Shipherd, Jacob R. (Jacob Rudd), 1836-1905
History of the Oberlin-Wellington rescue.
Published by John P. Jewett and Company. Also published in Cleveland, Ohio, by Henry P. B. Jewett, and in New York City by Sheldon and Company.
GLC00267.153
1880
Bearse, Austin, fl. 1880
Reminiscences of fugitive-slave days in Boston.
Bearse, a Massachusetts native, served as a mate on many ships transporting enslaved people up and down the coast between 1818 and 1830. He shares his experiences from these days, showing great empathy for the enslaved people with whom he came into...
GLC00267.154
1854
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
The landmark of freedom. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner against the repeal of the Missouri prohibition of slavery north of 36 30'.
Published by John P. Jewett and Company. Published in Cleveland, Ohio, by Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington. Contains a Burnham Brothers College, School, and Library imprint on front cover. Bound with string. Pages are gilt-edged.
GLC00267.157
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