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1834/07/01
Williams, Samuel May, fl. 1834-1836
to Edward C. Hanrick
Hanrick was an Alabama speculator in Texas lands. Williams held the lands in trust until colonists from Alabama were to arrive. Docketed on address leaf.
GLC02576
1808/12/05
Davis, George Barber, fl. 1803-1811
to Ahmet Bashaw Caramanli re: stipulations of Caramanli's loss of power
Davis writes: "The mutability of Your Excellency's opinions has, in a great measure, destroyed in the mind of your brother those favorable feelings towards you which, with an infinite deal of troubles, I had succeeded in exciting." He then goes on...
GLC02794.121
to William Higgens re: instructions to pay Sidi Ahmet's monthly pension
Davis encloses an "unsealed letter to the ex-Bashaw" (GLC02794.122), and instructs the U.S. Naval Agent at Malta to pay the ex-Bashaw a monthly pension of $200/month "[i]n case Sidi Ahment shall accept the terms proposed to him in my letter . . . ."...
GLC02794.122
9 January 1876
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
to John Conness
Commander in Chief of the Army Sherman writes to Conness about the quarrel he had with Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton over the terms of Confederate General Joseph Johnston's surrender in 1865. Sherman suggests that he may have acted wrongly. "...
GLC03341.01
1748/07/15
Livingston, Philip, 1686-1749
Last will and testament of Philip Livingston
Philip Livingston bequeathed unto his oldest son Robert Junior all lands, tenements, and mills on the Manor, a house in Albany, and his enslaved people and livestock. He notes, however, that if he should die between February and September, Robert is...
GLC03107.02493
1861-1866
Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?
Collection of Charles E. Walbridge, US volunteers quartermaster's department [Decimalized .001-.126]
The collection contains 125 letters of Charles E. Walbridge, of Buffalo, New York, to his mother. Two stray items are at the end of the inventory: an undated letter to his mother and a letter to Minnie Walbridge, his sister (#126). The letters...
GLC04662
1864/01/22
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Discharges for nine soldiers and William Yocum (signed recto by Brutus J. Clay)
List of prisoners on front, with place of imprisonment, endorsed on verso by Lincoln. At the bottom of the list is a note of congressman Brutus J. Clay, requesting the discharge of the above. Lincoln orders the discharge of nine soldiers upon...
GLC05984
1862-1864
Jones, John, fl. 1862-1864
[Collection of John Jones, Company F, 45th regiment, Illinois, infantry] [decimalized]
Contains vivid battle descriptions and political content. On 13 March 1863, he writes of his opposition to a $300 fee to avoid draft "based precisely on the same principle with the conscription of the 'Southern Confederacy' which exempts a man...
GLC05981
24 June 1846
United States. Congress (29th, 1st session : 1846)
Schooner Amistad.
Contains an introductory statement by James Buchanan, Secretary of State, transmitting documents to Charles J. Ingersoll, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. The report contains correspondence between...
GLC05796
6 January 1796 - 9 May 1797
Poulson, Zachariah, 1761-1844
To the free Africans and other people of color in the United States
Two addresses by the conventions of delegates of the Abolition Societies of the United States. The first is dated 9 May 1797 and signed by Joseph Bloomfield as President of the Convention. The second is dated 6 January 1796 and signed by Theodore...
GLC06212
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