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18 December 1790
Waln, Nicholas
[Explaining why Quakers refuse to pay a fee for their pacifism]
Quakers explaining why they refuse to pay a fee to the government for their pacifism.
GLC05326
1813 ca.
Perry's Victory [Battle of Lake Erie, poem illustrated with woodcut]
Sold by J.G. Hunt "South Side City Wharf." Celebrating Oliver H. Perry's naval victory on Lake Erie, Sept. 10.
GLC05511
ca. 10 May 1785
Cooper, William (1720-1809)
Instructions from Boston to its Representatives in State Legislature
This document is a printed sheet with a manuscript note at top containing information and instructions about a meeting of those who represent the Town of Boston. The note concerns State Legislators and mentions John Hancock, Samuel Allyn Otis, Caleb...
GLC05666.01
1795 ca.
Indian letter.... [with:] An Address to Drunkards [temperance broadside]
Temperance broadside printed by N. Coverly. The broadside (possibly playing-off recent news relating to Indians?) quotes an excerpt from a letter of Capt. Hendricks of the Stockbridge Nation to Col. Pickering, 1794 in which he says that the enemy of...
GLC05667.01
1807/11/02
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Boston Gazette Extra, No. 2 [preparing for war]
Prints Jefferson's 27 October 1807 message to Congress re: preparing for war against the British (which never came). One of the results of Jefferson's message was the Embargo Act.
GLC06613
23 March 1798
Adams, John (1735-1826)
[Presidential proclamation for a national day of prayer]
Proclamation declaring national "day of Solemn Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer," with Timothy Pickering's free frank on verso. Adams wants Americans to pray for the protection of their country. Proclamation states that America is in a "hazardous and...
GLC02542.14
1812/07/04
Gholson, Thomas (fl. 1812)
to Freeholders... Mecklenberg... re: crisis in affairs with Briatin
GLC08602
circa 1800
New York Slavery
"A Statement, Shewing the Aggregate Number of Persons in each of the Wards of the city of New York, and in each of the Counties in this State, including, however, no more than three-fifths of the whole number of slaves."
GLC08893
1786/02/16
Supplement to the Daily Advertiser...
Contains report of Congressional Committee establishing a system of revenue. Trimmed. Docketed on p. 1 "Report of Congress, Feb 1786"
GLC06955
1787/02/16
Act to punish rebels and their supporters in Shays's Rebellion
Oblong broadside. "An act, describing the disqualifications to which persons shall be subjected, who have been, or may be guilty of treason, or giving aid or support to the present rebellion, and to whom pardon may be extended." Signed in type by...
GLC06980
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