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1859/11/24
Taliaferro, William Booth, 1822-1898
to "My Darling Wife" re: doubting reported plan to rescue Brown
Written while guarding John Brown in prison.
GLC07638.02
1835/02/06
Travis, William B., fl. 1835
to David G. Burnet re: politics in Texas
"Austin has been admitted to Bail. Letters from him & Almonte say he will leave Mexico, intirely liberated, in a short time. The new election for governor, Lt. governor, and members of Congress, will take place here next Monday." Also mentions...
GLC07639
1842 ca.
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Landscape watercolor painted by Grant as cadet at West Point
Signed in right hand corner "U.H. Grant". Includes 4 items collateral paperwork.
GLC07641
1818/08/18
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to Henry Sherburne re: Treaty with the Chickasaw Nation
"Funds have been transmitted you to carry into effect the treaty with the Chickasaw Nation of the 30th of December 1815, and also for the payment of the annuity due them under that treaty for 1817...." Sherburne, a Rhode Island native, was...
GLC07644
1770/05/02
Botetourt, Norborne B., fl. 1770
re: authorizing justices in Charlotte Co. to execute slaves for capital offenses
Authorizes justices in Charlotte County to execute slaves who commit capital offenses. With collateral newspaper article.
GLC07645
1861/09/17
Taylor, Walter Herron, 1838-1916
to Sally Tompkins re: battle at Richmond Mountain
"[T]he expedition not wholly baren of good results. We captured all their pickets...the plan was well arranged (and that is all my Genl [Lee] had to do with it) but...the assault was not made."
GLC07646
1871/09/24
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Engraving inscribed by Sherman
"If...you would take the trouble to examine the volume throughout, and to minute all the passages where your recollection or your notes would detect an error, it would confer a new and valuable obligation upon me...."
GLC07647
1770/03/23
Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775
to George Grenville re: aftermath of Boston Massacre, troop presence in Boston
"It was so apparently incompatible with the Safety of the town for the troops to continue any longer in it, that His Majesty's Council were unanimous in their Advice to the Lieutenant Governor, that they should be removed to the Barracks at Castle...
GLC07649
[1880 ca.]
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Does a College Education Pay re: supporting college education
"The methods employed in any enterprise and occupation, have so changed within the last fifty years, that a necessity has risen for an advanced grade of intelligence and education."
GLC07650
1771/05/15
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
to Samuel Adams, et al. re: British policy & the potential loss of the colonies
"History shows that by these Steps great Empires have crumbled heretofore; and the late Transactions we have so much Cause to complain of, show that we are in the same Train, and that without a greater Share of Prudence and Wisdom than we seem on...
GLC07651
1737/05/06
Zenger, John P., 1697-1746
to James Alexander re: gratitude to attorney 2 years after trial and aquittal
"The Service it did me was great for that compleated my Deliverance..."
GLC07652
1780/10/09
Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786
to George Clinton re: situation at West Point after Arnold's treason
"The condition of the works and the knowledge the enemy has of them from Arnold's late shameful and treasonable conduct make it necessary that every exertion should be made to compleat them, and I have it from the commander in chief to leave nothing...
GLC07653
1763-1772
Grenville, George, 1753-1813
Collection of Grenville papers re: colonial policy towards colonies [Decimalized .01- .42]
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister from the spring of April 1763 until July 1765, George Grenville became one of the least loved heads of government over the colonies due to two revenue bills that could be blamed, to an extent, for what...
GLC07654
1763 ca.
Anonymous note re: division of American bill
"The American bill if Divided into different bills will most certainly meet with less opposition..."
GLC07654.01
Committee of Merchants of Boston
Extract of letter from Committee of Merchants at Boston to Jasper Mauduit
Bernard has itemized one hundred and five points, ranging from the establishment of "a Nobility for life" to the redrawing of colonial frontiers according to "natural boundaries." Includes a three-page preface.
GLC07654.02
1763/05/19
Bollan, William, fl. 1750-1763
to George Grenville re: illicit trade in America, Holland, and other ports
GLC07654.03
[1764]
Bernard, Francis, 1712-1779
Principles of Law & Policy applied to British Colonies in America
GLC07654.04
1764/10/03
Temple, John, fl. 1764
to George Grenville re: improprieties in collecting taxes in Colonies
GLC07654.05
1764/10/29
Murray, James, fl. 1764
to Commissioners of Trade and Plantation re: French under English rule in Quebec
GLC07654.06
1765 ca.
List of undischarged taxes from the Colonies
GLC07654.07
1799/05/23
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
to James Wilkinson re: summoning Wilkinson to Washington
"I begin now to be anxious to learn that you had received my letter desiring you to repair to the Seat of Government...that...a general plan for the arrangement of the affairs of the Western Army, with an eye to the existing posture of our political...
GLC07656
1803/11/18
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Appointing Tobias Lear as Consul to Algiers
GLC07658
1768/01/02
Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776
to George Grenville re: Colden's conduct during the Stamp Act uprisings
GLC07654.35
1768/01/29
to George Grenville re: update of Assembly proceeding against Colden
GLC07654.36
1768/02/11
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Copy of a circular letter to colonial governments re: taxes imposed on colonies
GLC07654.37
1768/10/22
GLC07654.38
1768/10/28
Saville, George, fl. 1768
to Dr. Thomas Moffatt re: anti-British sentiments in the Colonies
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GLC07654.39
1769/01/06
to George Grenville re: Colden's vindication in the Assembly
GLC07654.40
1769/10/05
to George Grenville re: death of Gov. Henry Moore
GLC07654.41
1772/10
Some articles of intelligence . . . relating to the Ohio company
GLC07654.42
1766 ca.
Act for the Better Securing the Dependency of...America
GLC07655
1829/02/16 ca.
Draft response to notification of election as President
"I accept the office given me by the free & unbiased suffrage, of a virtuous people, with feelings of the highest gratitude."
GLC07657
1790/01/31
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Gov. Hancock re: praise for the Republican form of government
"The result of my reflections on republics are, that they are more productive of happiness, and an enlargement of the human mind, than any other sort of Government."
GLC07659
1822/08/18
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
to Sir Charles Morgan re: current political revolutions in Europe
GLC07660
1783/03/12
Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813
to Nathanael Greene re: news of the Peace Treaty
"I should think it prudent to maintain so respectable a force in Georgia and South Carolina as would discourage any attempt on them fin case the Negotiations should prove abortive."
GLC07661
1765/02/01
Rogers, Nathaniel, fl. 1765
to George Grenville re: the Stamp Act, a need for changes in colonial society
GLC07654.08
1765/02 ca.
Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805
to George Grenville re: Colonial remonstrance against Molasses Act of 1733
He quotes: "'That the Complaint contained in the New England Memorial & Petition was frivolous & Groundless, an high Insult upon his Majesty's Government, & tending to shake off the dependency of the said Colony upon this Kingdom, to which by Law &...
GLC07654.09
1765/07/04
to King George III re: establishment of admiralty courts
With secretarial signatures of Grenville, Lord North and John Turner. Copy of a letter to King George III discussing the admiralty and vice admiralty courts, along with a description of three new courts at Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston.
GLC07654.10
1765/07/09
Great Britain. Treasury.
Treasury minutes re: Stamp Act revenue
"...[I]t is expected that a full Asembly will form very different Resolutions Such as may cement the Union, which alone can establish the Safety and Prosperity of the Colonies and the Mother Country." Marked "Copy" on first page.
GLC07654.11
1765/09/14
Conway, Henry Seymour, fl. 1765
to Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier re: Va. House of Burgesses resolves on Stamp Act
GLC07654.12
1765/10/24
Circular letter to colonial governors re: suppression of rebellion
GLC07654.13
1765/12/15
to Maj. Gen. Thomas Gage re: mob uprisings in New York City
GLC07654.14
to Lt. Gov. Cadwallader Colden re: New York City Stamp Act riots
GLC07654.15
1764/12/11-1765/12/17
Notes from Treasury Council meetings
GLC07654.16
1766/01 ca.
Lords Treasury Committee
Motion for an address re: Stamp Act opposition in the colonies
GLC07654.17
[1766]/02/04
Resolutions of Lords Treasury Committee on American business
Document states that the laws imposed by the Parliment of Great Britain are to be held strictly, and any governor in those colonies that have partook in insurrection should make sure his subjects pay the proper recompensations to the Crown and to...
GLC07654.18
1766/02/14
Sons of Liberty (New York, NY)
to [unknown] re: unifying the Sons of Liberty in New York
Call to assembly of as many Sons of Liberty as possible to combat the threat of British taxation and to protest the Stamp Act, as well as demand trials by juries.
GLC07654.19
1766/02-04 ca.
Abstract of Proceedings in 1676 and 1677 in the case of Bacon's Rebellion
GLC07654.20
1766/03 ca.
Knox, William, 1756-1795
Considerations continued no. 2
Discussion of the plausibility of a "drawback," or export tariff on goods before they left England so that the final price in the colonies would be slightly higher but a tax would not be added on in the colonies, in an effort to lessen opposition to...
GLC07654.21
1766/03/17
Great Britain. Parliament.
Lords protest re: repeal of the Stamp Act
Response from the House of Lords, in dissension to the Bill of Appeal of the Stamp Act. "If we give our Consent to it without a full Conviction that is right . . . we in effect annihilate this Branch of Legislature, & vote ourselves useless."...
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