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1932/02/25
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Pardon-related: Respite of execution for Benjamin Gordon
Signed as New York State governor. Gordon was a murder convict.
GLC01457
17 July 1782
Carleton, Guy, 1724-1808
[Authorization for payment to General William Howe's forces in New York]
Dating from the final months of British occupation of New York during the American Revolution. To Deputy Paymaster William Deane Poyntz. Countersigned by W. Morgan. Payment of 246 pounds, 19 shillings, and 4 pence sterling for the provisions of Howe...
GLC01468
1867/04/19
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
[Promotion request: presumably to Edwin Stanton]
A.N. Preston, acting assistant adjutant general of the District of Mississippi, details his qualifications for promotion; the top portion of his request is missing, so the addressee and date are unknown. Brevet Major General Thomas J. Wood adds his...
GLC01471
25 March 1777
Gordon, William, 1728-1807
to Catharine Macaulay
Seeks her help writing a history of the Revolution. Planned a contemporaneous account of the Revolution, which he claims is authorized by Washington. Written in the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, formerly part of Roxbury, Massachusetts.
GLC01791.01
24 August 1775
Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814
Refers to the present dangerous affairs due to British barbarity. Alludes to "the Bravery of the peasants of Lexington." Describes the investment of a colonial army led by Washington and the beginnings of a representative government in Massachusetts...
GLC01800.02
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