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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
1865/05/20
[James Buchanan]
Brady carte de visite, signed and dated on the mount by Buchanan.
GLC01453
1866-1867 ca.
[James A. Garfield]
Carte-de-visite of President Garfield. Signed "J.A. Garfield" on the photograph.
GLC01454
1890 ca.
Parker, Charles W., fl. 1889-1890
[Benjamin Harrison]
Cabinet photograph of President Harrison. Part of a matching set, one with his wife's image. Image by Charles Parker of Washington.
GLC01456.01
circa 1889
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison
Cabinet photograph of Caroline Scott Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison.
GLC01456.02
17 February 1845
Tyler, John, 1790-1862
[Authority to affix the seal to the pardon of Peyton R. Sides].
GLC01458
8 November 1879
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893
[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal for commutation of sentence imposed upon Isaac Jacobson].
Partly printed document signed as President.
GLC01472
1974/11/20
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
Gerald Ford's Remarks in Japan
Signed in blue felt-tip marker on page 6. The speech discusses the state of American-Japanese relations. Speech given as the first American President to visit Japan. Tucked into a gilt stamped leather valise with yellow moiré tabs, said to have...
GLC01474
14 July 1832
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
[Appointment of Samuel J. Bayard to as Clerk of the Commission]
Appointing Bayard as Clerk of the Commission for "carrying into effect the Treaty of limits between the Untied States and the United Mexican States," a treaty establishing the border. Countersigned by Secretary of State Edward Livingston. Affixed...
GLC01475
7 June 1866
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
[Presidential pardon of Patrick Joyce Jr. and John Handley, convicted of larceny].
On March 1866, Patrick Joyce Jr. and John Handley were convicted of larceny, sentenced to serve a one year imprisonment. Pardon was requested by the Mayor of Washington and a large number of respectable citizens Countersigned by Secretary of State...
GLC01476
1779-1780
Documents related to the Revolutionary War [Decimalized .01-.03]
Contains an account report for the sloop Liberty, an inspection return for the 4th Massachusetts Regiment, and an anonymously sketched document (possibly military).
GLC01450.554
3 November 1685
Commission on Trade and Plantations
An accompts of salaries due...in the service of His Majesty and in attendance on the...Lords of the Committee for Trade and Plantations.
Signed by Henry Hyde, second Earl of Clarendon; Robert Spencer, second Earl of Sunderland; Charles Middleton, second Earl of Middleton; Henry Mordaunt, second Earl of Peterborough; and John Sheffield, third Earl of Mulgrave. Accounts for the...
GLC01450.555
1742-1783
British military documents [Decimalized .01-.06]
GLC01450.556
20 November 1756
Rhode Island. General Assembly
[An act that all collectors of Crown Point Bills who are in arrears be prosecuted]
Clerical copy of an act of the General Assembly of the Colony of Rhode Island. All collectors of Crown Point Bills who have not paid these into the treasury are to be held accountable. Includes statement of accounts. Recto of last page is the address...
GLC01450.558
1805-1863
Murphy, David, 1769-1844
[Items related to the Murphy family of Missouri] [Decimalized .01- .81]
Contains account books, numerous receipts, and letters related to the Murphy family of Missouri. David Murphy's signature appears on many of the receipts, and the collection includes his will and materials related to a local election.
GLC01450.600
1781
[Printed secret codes, nomenclator]
The document is printed and handwritten on both sides. One side is typeset with various words beginning with each letter of the alphabet and the other side is printed with numbers 1-1700 in chronological order. The handwritten notes next to each word...
GLC01450.601
1782
Massachusetts Assembly
Printed resolutions regarding recruiting and clothing [Decimalized .01-.02]
See decimalized entries.
GLC01450.602
1775-1783
Collection of documents related to Captain Morgan Lewis [Decimalized .01-.15]
GLC01450.603
7 February 1781
Kimball, Thomas, fl. 1781
[Massachusetts reenlistment document]
Partially printed document signed by Thomas Kimball, whose identity is unknown, who appears to have written everything in ink on the page. Document subscribes Ebenezer Low, Jr. and Thomas Jalloson to continue in the service of the United States for...
GLC01450.604
20 July 1781
Porter, William, fl. 1781
[Muster roll of Major General Friedrich Adolph Riedesel's regiment infantry of the Brunswick troops]
Created at Fort Brooklyn. Includes recruits sent "from Brunswik to America in the year 1780 as muster'd by his britanik Majesty's Commissary of Muster, William Porter." Includes the names of regimental staff (servants, clerks, and chaplains, among...
GLC01450.605
1782-1783
Massachusetts Bay Council
Printed circular unsigned re: collecting taxes, mentions Robert Morris
Headed "(Circular Letter.)" Discusses the need to provide state financial support to Congress for provisioning for the army. Comments on the problems with their currency created after the Revolution began. Describes the moment and obligation as...
GLC01450.606
24 June 1782
Shilbaugh, Christopher, fl. 1782
[Hessian muster roll] [In French]
Hessian regiments of the "Grenadiers Lieutenant General Charquis d'Angelleli" 25 December 1781- 24 June 1782. Signed by [Shielhause?] as Captain Lieutenant, F. W. Book as Major, and J. G. Endemann as Lieutenant Colonel and Commander.
GLC01450.607
23 April 1775
Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775
[Resolution of Provincial Congress of Watertown for enlistments]
Clerical copy with signature of Joseph Warren, as President Pro Tempore, in the secretary's hand. Document refers to "the Recovery and preservation of our undoubted Rights and Liberties." Delineates pay scale of various ranks in the army, says a...
GLC01450.608
1775-1780
Receipts of payment from the State of Connecticut [Decimalized .01-.21]
Most of the receipts in this collection pertain to payment for post riding.
GLC01450.609
15 August 1771
Dawson, Roper, 1724-?
[Copy of the Probate of the Will of the Late Roper Dawson]
One copy of the probate and last will of Roper Dawson dated August 15, 1771. Outlines how his heirs, his wife Rachel, son George, and daughters Harriet and Charlotte will divide the estate upon his death. Appoints his wife and friends Augustus Van...
GLC01450.610.01
1779-1781
Leavitt, Jacob, 1740-1826
[Receipt book]
Leavitt records transactions for mugs of drink, tea, rum, wine, meal sugar, chocolate, milk, eggs, and other goods. Leavitt calls this manuscript a day book.
GLC01450.611
14 October 1709
Dudley, Joseph, 1647-1720
[Petition to Queen Anne and account for planned expedition to Canada]
A petition to Quen Anne for an expedition to Canada signed by Joseph Dudley, G. Saltonstall, Samuel Cranston, Samuel Vetch, Micholson.
GLC01450.612.01
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