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1680-1863
collection on French & Indian, Revolutionary Wars, Missouri [decimalized]
[decimalized 01450.001-01450.911]
1 black and white bust engraving of Sir William Johnson Bar included.
Dated 1680-1863 (bulk:1750-90).
GLC01450
14 August 1777
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
[Appointment of Samuel Nicholson as Commander of Frigate Deane]
Signed by Hancock as President of the Countersigned by Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress.
GLC01450.001
24 December 1779
Jay, John, 1745-1829
[Appointment of John Wheelwright as Commander of the privateer ship The Neptune]
Countersigned by Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, and John Avery.
GLC01450.002
1776
Simmons, Peleg, fl. 1776
[Orderly book of Peleg Simmons]
Daily orders for troops at Middletown and Newport, Rhode Island. Reports on soldiers' and officers' duties, troop movements, court martials, provisions, uniforms, armaments, soldiers' appearance, and general announcements to the troops at camp....
GLC01450.003
July 1776 - 9 December 1777
Tilden, Ezra, 1751-1819
[Diary of Ezra Tilden]
Provides a detailed day by day account of Tilden's march through New York during the Revolutionary War. Writes extensively about daily duties, poor rations, hunger, hardships along the march, sickness and death amongst the soldiers, and the...
GLC01450.004
19 July 1776 - circa 1830
Marshall, Thomas, fl. 1776
[Castle Island orderly book]
Entries also written by Gamaliel Bradford as Lieutenant Colonel, and Jonathan Carver. Reports on daily orders for the Boston Regiment of Militia stationed at Castle Island, in the Boston Harbor, commanded by Colonel Marshall. Mentions everyday life...
GLC01450.005.01
1 May 1776
Lowell, John, 1743-1802
[Commission of Thomas Marshall as Colonel of the Boston Regiment of Militia]
Signed by 15 other members of the Council of the Massachusetts Bay.
GLC01450.005.02
1775-1823
[Lovett family business accounts] [Decimalized .01-.33]
GLC01450.006
1779 -1781
Lovett, John, 1743-1792
[John Lovett account book of ships and prizes]
Documents the name, sailing date, and captain of ships and schooners, and details the goods these ships brought back to Lovett. Lovett was a ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. During the Revolutionary War privateering ships...
GLC01450.006.01
December 1, 1806
Leach, Nathan, fl. 1806
[Statement of captors' shares from the privateer ship Pilgrim]
Statement signed by the owners of shares of the proceeds captured on the ship Pilgrim's first cruise. Total of 39 signatures, Leach being the first. Documents that privateer Hugh Hill was the captain, and that the ship was in the agency of John...
GLC01450.006.02
July 2, 1783
[Lovett family account and ledger book]
Details the Lovett family accounts. Most are lists of sundry goods brought to Lovett by ship and their costs. Mentions the names of many ships, their sailing dates, and their captains. Note on last page signed by Jeremiah and Ezra Lovett, 2 July...
GLC01450.006.03
1778-1779
[Lovett family account and ledger book for receipts from the Earl of Sandwich]
Lists what each captain received from the Earl of Sandwich. Mostly lists of goods and their costs. Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. Dated 11 September 1778 - May 11, 1779.
GLC01450.006.04
1775
[Lovett family account book] [incomplete]
Details the Lovett family accounts. Most are lists of sundry goods brought to Lovett by ship and their costs. Mentions the names of many ships, their sailing dates, and their captains. The dates run backwards with the earliest at the end of the...
GLC01450.006.05
1862-1864
Photo album with 39 carte de visite Civil War photos, including Brigham Young
With fore-edge painting. Includes views of Jim Bridger, Brigham Young, Ute and Shoshone Indians. Album presented "By the Boys" [troops] at Camp Douglas, to their commanding officer, Capt. E.B. Grimes, Q.M. Includes a few Washington DC scenes at end...
GLC01261
4 March 1861
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Inaugural address of the President of the United States, on the Fourth of March, 1861.
Lincoln focuses on increasing his support in the North while attempting to not further alienate the South. He references four important documents: Henry Clay's 1850 Speech on compromise, Webster's reply to Hayne, Andrew Jackson's proclamation...
GLC01264
December 19, 1864
to Ladies managing the Soldier's Fair
Written on Executive Mansion stationery. Lincoln alludes to the "good news" of Sherman's March to the Sea.
GLC01303
22 May 1849
[Patent for Abraham Lincoln's improvement in buoying vessels over shoals]
Patent granted to Lincoln for inventing "a new and improved manner of combining adjustable buoyant air chambers with a steamboat or other vessel for the purpose of enabling their draught of water to be readily lessened to enable them to pass over...
GLC01304
1865, 1940s?
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
[Ulysses S. Grant, Julia and Jesse Grant at City Point, Va.]
Original negative ca. April 1865, discovered in the 1890s by Meserve, 79 Leonard Street, NYC and published. This is a Meserve print. This was likely reprinted in the 1940s. Inscription on verso indicates the photo was taken when Lincoln visited, just...
GLC01260
1860 ca.
Whipple, J.A., fl. 1860-1861
The residence of late President Lincoln, Springfield, Ill.
Carte-de-visite showing Lincoln and Tad on the front porch in the distance. (The two people on the street are unidentified.) O-38 (M-23) Ostendorf p. 56, who says the negative was taken by John Adams Whipple of Boston in the Summer of 1860.
GLC01262
1856-1869
Civil War Loyalty Societies, fl. 1856-1869
Civil war loyalty pamphlets [41] (Bulk, 1861-1869)
Disbound pamphlets including Loyal Publ. Society Tracts nos. 7, 27, 29, 34, 36, 37 and 40, arguments of E. Pierrepont at Surratt's trial (1867), etc.
GLC01265
25 July 1900
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
[Last verse of the Battle Hymn of the Republic]
Beginning "In the Beauty of the lillies...."
GLC01266.01
1860
Follett, Foster and Company, fl. 1860
Political debates between the Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas
One book entitled, "Political debates between the Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas" dated 1860. Item is a printing of the speeches between Abraham Lincoln and Stepehen Douglas from June 1858 to October 1858. Speech topics covered...
GLC01301
28 April 1832
Special order No. 7: Brigade muskets during Black Hawk War
Lincoln's signature "A. Lincoln, Capt." on verso of receipt.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincon. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I p. 9-10.
GLC01302
1832/05/06
Redding, Ebenezer H., fl. 1829-1832
[Receipt for $1.00 from Corn. Williams]
Redding attests to his receipt of payment from Corn. Williams. The docket identifies it as a "Bill on Estate," although it was not indicated what the payment was for. Redding was possibly Ebenezer Redding of Washington County, Maine, who lived...
GLC01450.724.04
1780
Little, William, fl. 1780-1786
[Little's account of refreshments delivered]
Records refreshments delivered to Lamb's (possibly Colonel John Lamb's) regiment of artillery, Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin's regiment of artificers, Livingston (possibly James Livingston's) regiment of infantry, a corps of sappers and miners, and...
GLC01450.806
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