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Pardon-related: Respite of execution for Benjamin Gordon

Signed as New York State governor. Gordon was a murder convict.

GLC01457

[Authorization for payment to General William Howe's forces in New York]

Dating from the final months of British occupation of New York during the American Revolution. To Deputy Paymaster William Deane Poyntz. Countersigned by W. Morgan. Payment of 246 pounds, 19 shillings, and 4 pence sterling for the provisions of Howe...

GLC01468

[Promotion request: presumably to Edwin Stanton]

A.N. Preston, acting assistant adjutant general of the District of Mississippi, details his qualifications for promotion; the top portion of his request is missing, so the addressee and date are unknown. Brevet Major General Thomas J. Wood adds his...

GLC01471

to Catharine Macaulay

Seeks her help writing a history of the Revolution. Planned a contemporaneous account of the Revolution, which he claims is authorized by Washington. Written in the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, formerly part of Roxbury, Massachusetts.

GLC01791.01

to Catharine Macaulay

Refers to the present dangerous affairs due to British barbarity. Alludes to "the Bravery of the peasants of Lexington." Describes the investment of a colonial army led by Washington and the beginnings of a representative government in Massachusetts...

GLC01800.02

to James Madison

Dates letter Thursday. Discusses President John Quincy Adams' State of the Union Address before Congress on 4 December 1827 and comments that it did not move her either negatively or positively. Observes that some may be critical of it because he...

GLC01812

to James Madison

Responds to a letter from Madison in which he told Gerry that Parliament had abolished the Courts of Session in Middlesex. Gerry considers the news "laughable." In a long note after his signature he comments on the popularity of a certain Mrs...

GLC01814

[Presidential authority to the secretary of state to affix the seal to a warrant remitting the sentences of Henry Walsh and James S. Gregory].

Walsh and Gregory were being held in the Albany County, New York, Penitentiary and, in reference to the warrant, their "sentences were remitted "on the condition therein prescribed."

GLC01819

[Appointment of Ormsby M. Mitchel as Brigadier General of Volunteers]

Signed by Abraham Lincoln as president; countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, and endorsed by Lorenzo Thomas as Adjutant General on 7 February 1862. On verso, contains a note in pencil relating that this document was given to a...

GLC01821

Collection of items related to John Hay, letter and two photographs [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC01822