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15 May 1776
Hart, John, 1708-1780
to the Treasurers of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey
Certifies payment to Augustine Stevenson for his service as a member of the New Jersey Committee of Safety.
GLC01499
16 February 1776
Williams, William, 1731-1811
[Document allocating funds for the construction of a naval galley]
Williams, a Lebanon, Connecticut city clerk and Selectman, reports that at a previous meeting, the Governor and Council of Safety of Connecticut voted that the Committee of Pay Tables should collect money to build a galley for use by the colony....
GLC01503
27 October 1776
Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804
to Elias Dayton
Written by Major General Schuyler as commander of the Northern Department, to Colonel Elias Dayton of the 3rd New Jersey Regiment. Sent by Schuyler when Dayton's regiment was marching north from Schenectady. Dayton's troops were being sent to the...
GLC01580
1774/10/26
United States. Continental Congress.
Petition from the General Congress... to the King [American grievances]
The last action of the first Continental Congress. Entitled "A Genuine Copy / of the / Peititon from the General Congress in America to the King. Published by Order of the Congress, at Philadelphia Oct. 26, 1774." 2 columns. No imprint...
GLC01671
1774-1775
Pennsylvania journal and weekly advertiser. [No. 1674 (January 4, 1774) - no. 1725 (December 27, 1775)] [with gaps]
Revolutionary War era newspaper: Pennsylvania Journal. 5 and 19 April 1775 issues contain fugitive slave ads. Issue number 1698 is missing. March 8, 1775 contains African Slavery In America written by Thomas Paine in 1774.
GLC01706
26 August 1776
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Commission of Thomas Noyes.
Assigns Noyes as Lieutenant of the Eleventh Company in the Second Regiment of the Brigade raised by the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Signed by Hancock as President of Congress and countersigned by Charles Thomson as Secretary.
GLC02150.01
1774
Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress.
Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September, 1774. Containing the Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, an address to the people of Great Britin, a memorial to the inhabitants of the British-American Colonies...
GLC02150.03
10 December 1777
Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799
to Thomas Johnson
Henry, Governor of Virginia, encloses a piece of paper (not included) informing Johnson, Governor of Maryland, that the inhabitants residing near the Potomac River are in danger. Reports that several British warships are sailing upriver, and that he...
GLC01890
1780/07/24
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
to Lieutenant of Berkeley Co. re: call for drafting state militia, pay
Partly printed circular letter signed as Governor of Virginia. Refers to an act to prevent desertion, to draft more state militia and to use tobacco loan certificates for pay. Ink and paper losses at center. Lined on verso.
GLC01891
1780/12/24
Orders re: to take charge as Commissary of Virginia militia
Signed as Governor of Virginia, mentioning troops being sent "to Fort Pitt on their way down the Ohio" when Indians were raiding the western borders. The close and "thirty thousand pounds" are in Jefferson's hand.
GLC01967
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