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1 March 1848
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to Jesse W. Fell
Short letter announcing the war's end. Predicts that the peace treaty submitted to Congress will be passed. Notes: Basler 1:454-55.
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12 March 1836
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
[Patent for Charles Richardson's improvement in blacksmith's cast iron hollow forge backs]
Signed by Jackson as President. Countersigned by John Forsyth as Secretary of State and Benjamin Franklin Butler as Attorney General. Richardson's written description of his improvement is signed by Albert and Cyrus Richardson as witnesses....
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27 September 1821
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
[Arkansas land grant]
Signed by Monroe as President and countersigned by Josiah Meigs as Commissioner of the General Land Office. Also signed by "J. Wheaton," apparently a clerk in the land office who recorded the grant and by a "Will. Blanchard" on verso at the docket...
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10 April 1826
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
[Indiana land grant to Samuel Cook]
Countersigned by George W. Graham, Commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed document granting Cook eighty acres in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
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1858/10/04
[Petition of a free black to become a slave of W.C. Lewis]
Ann Jackson's petition to become the property of W. C. Lewis, signed by her with an "X". The document was based on an Act of the Texas Legislature "Free persons of African descent [may] select their own master and become slaves...." With stamp of...
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1840-1891
Slavery archive [decimalized]
Duley Family Papers, mostly by Enoch Duley and his son Enoch M. Duley. The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, land grants, genealogical material, land surveys and maps, a hymn book, and photographs, including cabinet cards, tintypes, and...
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9 May 1860
Duley, Enoch M., 1773-1864
$200 Reward!
Offered for "my boy Manuel," a runaway slave described as 35 years old and enterprising. Includes a physical description: "He has a shrewd expression of the eye, and has a scar on one of his thighs occasioned from a burn, is well dressed and has in...
GLC06377.01
8 October 1855
Fort, David, 1775-1855
[Land indenture for four tracts in Livingston County, Kentucky]
Signed by David Fort and countersigned by J.V. House and Jesse Ramage, Jr. as witnesses. Sold for $6,500 by Fort to Enoch M. Duley. Outlines the location of the tracts, which together comprised approximately 571 acres. An autograph note signed by...
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1834/03/26
Vidaurii, Francisco, fl. 1834
re: selling public lands at auction
Bound with white ribbon at top. "Supreme Court of the free states of Coahuila and Texas. The Governor of the State of Coahulia, to all its inhabitants known: that the Congress of this state have decided as follows... the vacant lands of the state...
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13 April 1852
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
to William Stiles
Thanks him for sending a copy of his work on the political movements in Austria of 1848-1849. Chastises him for not visiting when he was in the area. Warns against the election of Winfield Scott, the Whig party candidate, to the presidency and...
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