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Hemans, Nancy A. (b. 1843)
to Frances B. Shiras
An undated note in which Nancy discusses a second pregnancy, possibly the one she had after Daniel's death. Ruminates on mortality.
GLC02429.58
Asks Mrs. Shiras to purchase and send the listed silverware, if she has not yet send him the money from Mr. Brown.
GLC02429.59
10 July 1783
Walker, Benjamin (1753-1818)
[Request for provisions for Indian tribe]
Request for provisions for four men in an Indian tribe. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw, with a signed docket by Hendrick Solomon.
GLC02437.02258
circa 1880-1890
Volck, Adalbert John (1828-1912)
Albert S. Johnston crossing the desert to join the Southern army
Depicts Albert Sidney Johnston in the right foreground, dressed in deerskin garb with a Native American guide and a ragtag group of men following behind. Like many other Confederate leaders, Johnston was serving in the United States army when war...
GLC00493.20
31 July 1805
Unknown
[Col. Smith's money spent on bacon and flour]
GLC01450..600.018
1906
Cabeen, Francis von Albade (fl. 1906)
The Colonel and the Quaker or the Return of the Forefathers
Fictional story of a colonel and a Quaker who return from colonial times to view the world as it was in the early 1900s. The colonel is Alexander Anderson and the book mentions his French and Indian War and Revolutionary War commissions (GLC01450...
GLC01450.007.04
1783-1815
[Recipe for consumption]
GLC01450.600. 015
1 September 1863
Cobb, John (fl. 1863)
[Certifying loyalty to the Union]
Written in Saint Francois County. Signed by Cobb, John A. Weber, Reinhart Laney, Elisha J. White, and Thomas Lang as citizens of Saint Francois County Missouri. The signees swear that they are personally acquainted with Catherine E. Murphy, a widow...
GLC01450.600.001
12 August - 24 October 1813
Murphy, David (fl. 1813-)
David's Murphy's Book [Account Book]
GLC01450.600.002
August 1825
Bible Society Treasurer (fl. 1825-)
Bible Society Treasurer's Book
GLC01450.600.003
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