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April 27, 1789
Smith, James, 1713-1806
to Edward Burd
Summarizes cases heard in court. Addressed to Burd as the prothonotary of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
GLC01097
26 September 1776
Morton, John, 1724-1777
[Payment of salary to Benjamin Bartholomew]
Authorizes the treasurer for the county of Chester, Pennsylvania to pay Bartholomew 31 pounds and 12 shillings for 79 days attendance as a member of the house. Also three pounds, 16 shillings for mileage. Note on verso dated 12 October 1776 states...
GLC01098
March 18, 1777
Duer, William, 1747-1799
to Samuel Townsend
Continental Congressman Duer orders Captain Townsend to send an inventory of the effects of Israel Seaman and William Crocker to "the Commissioners appointed for his County." Townshend had apprehended Seaman and Crocker earlier by order of the...
GLC01099
1926
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Whither bound?
Inscribed to his son James Roosevelt and dated June 1926. Signed twice, once in the presentation note on the free front endpaper and once on the titlepage. A lecture at Milton Academy on the Alumni Memorial Foundation, 18 May 1926. Published by...
GLC01101
April 6, 1865
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
to William T. Sherman
Telegram to General William T. Sherman above which Grant has penned a note requesting a member of his staff at City Point, Virginia, to send the dispatch in cipher to General Sherman at Goldsboro, North Carolina, regarding his progress, the flight of...
GLC01102
October 24, 1816
Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818
to Dolley Madison
Responds to an earlier letter from Madison and remarks that receiving it was an unexpected pleasure but mentions a mistake (not specified) regarding it. Comments that a friend did not have the power to comply with the circumstances communicated by...
GLC01104
December 1864
Collection of two items related to Abraham Lincoln and Lazarus Whitehead Powell [Decimalized]
GLC01011
12 September 1864
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
[Petition for promoting Colonel Andrew Wood Denison].
Lincoln submitted this petition to Secretary of War Stanton. Fifteen prominent men from Maryland signed the petition asking that Colonel Denison be promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteers. The petition recounts Denison's service to the Union...
GLC01012
24 September 1862
General orders no. 139.
Preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation published for the Army War Department printing, removed from a compilation of general orders. Noted on pages 117-120 are the orders that all people enslaved in the south will be freed. Beginning on...
GLC01024
April 26, 1844
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to Amos Kendall
Writes to the former Postmaster General, also Jackson's close friend and biographer. Jackson relates how he learned that nullifiers secretly sent an agent to Great Britain for aid during the Nullification Crisis of 1832. "... the nullifiers of the...
GLC01025
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