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1833/04/29
Ogden, Thomas L., fl. 1833
New Arkansas & Texas Land Co. grant to Sylvester Davis (cos. Jackson & Curtis)
Numbered 3895. Cosigned by Daniel Jackson and Edward Curtis. Streeter, Texas Rev. 1138.1.
GLC02933
1846/04/17
De Cordova, Jacob, 1808-1868
[Receipt for $25 from W. Rhodes for surveying headright of James O. Rice]
Records the payment by De Cordova and James O. Rice to W. Rhodes, "administrator on the Estate of J.P. Kimball," for locating and surveying Rice's headright.
GLC02935
8 January 1800
Russell, Benjamin, 1761-1845
Columbian centinel and Massachusetts federalist. [Vol. 32, No. 37 (January 8, 1800)]
Includes a report from James Craik and Elisha C. Dick, physicians from Alexandria, Virginia, present at the 14 December 1799 death of George Washington. Contains a detailed description of funeral honors dedicated to Washington by the inhabitants of...
GLC02960
1851
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861
to Emanuel Bernard Hart
Douglas writes to Hart, a United States Representative from New York: "A thousand thanks for your letter & for the efforts of our friends in the empire city. If I had a few such friends everywhere the battle would be soon won" (possibly referring to...
GLC02975
1839/10/16
Kendall, Amos, 1789-1869
to Mark Healy
Wishes to know why his desire to purchase land in Arkansas and Mississippi should be related to Mr. Moore's actions, and hopes to have the situation resolved soon. On verso, what appears to be Healy's draft of a response, written in pencil. Free...
GLC02976
1885
Sartain, John, 1808-1897
The Battle of Gettysburg
Headline reads "From the Original Picture painted for the State of Pennsylvania under award of Commission appointed by the Legislature." Caption reads "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1872 by P. F. Rothermel in the office of the...
GLC02980.01
1796/04/12
Adams, Thomas B., 1772-1832
to Joseph Pitcairn re: Mediterranean sailing for American ships, Algiers
GLC02961
22 January 1856
Tracy, Edward Dorr, 1833-1863
to Ellen Steele
Expresses his love to his fiance, and discusses the date of their upcoming wedding.
Excerpts: "... You say if it will suit my convenience better you will postpone our wedding to the 26th ult instead of consummating it on the 19th. In such matters...
GLC02963
4 May 1884
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
to John E. Tourtelotte
Addressed to Tourtelotte as Major, 7th U.S. Cavalry. Comments upon his retirement three months earlier. " ... I feel that the End which we have so long contemplated has at last come, and looking at it in a Common Sense view it is better this than a...
GLC02964
11 September 1865
Edgerton, R. W., fl. 1865
[Oath of allegiance to the United States]
Also signed by Hope Bain and Edmund [Cross], both Justices of the Peace.
GLC02966
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