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December 1787
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Supplies for recruits and disbursment
Lists supplies given and the amounts paid to various troops. Includes items such as shoes, fish, clothing, etc. Addressed to Jeremiah Wadsworth.
GLC02437.03750
July 21, 1783
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803
to James Madison
Discussion of the Army mutiny at Newburgh, suggests New York or Williamsburg for the new national capitol, Virginia House of Delegates, and treaty with Sweden. Watermark of Lion with sword facing away from soldier with tricorner hat on bayonet, both...
GLC00099.119
May 27, 1777
Hooper, William, 1742-1790
to Robert Morris
Laments the failure of North Carolina to re-elect his associate Joseph Hewes to the Continental Congress. Discusses and rejects the charges of profiteering leveled against Hewes (and others) while he was a member of the Secret Committee of...
GLC00462
1775/05/29
Livingston, Robert Cambridge, 1742-1790
to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: advice to sell flour quickly
Robert Cambridge writes that he has sold the last of his flour, and explains: "I thought it too dangerous to keep produce on hand at present it being most probable that a termination of our Commerce will take place about the middle of July and...
GLC03107.03332
4 September 1951
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Address of the President at the Opening of the Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty
Inscribed to Oscar Ewing as a Christmas present. Dated 25 December 1951. No. 32 of 60 copies privately printed for Truman to give as Christmas presents.
GLC04400
5 July 1777
Clift, Samuel, fl. 1777
to Isaac Gallup
Reports "The enemy have all mov'd on Staten Island." Also "John Murry was executed here last Tuesday for deserting and Inlisting several times," and others are sentenced to die for the same crime. Hopes to be "making our fortunes, this year, as our...
GLC05729
17 January 1789
Henley, Samuel, fl. 1788-1795
to Henry Knox
Written in Charlestown, possibly in Massachusetts. Writes to inform Knox that he purchased of Zachariah & Bethiah Fowle a house, barn and land in 1756. He bought them from Thomas Flucker, Knox's father-in-law, to whom the property had been...
GLC02437.04093
3 June 1792
Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker, fl. 1784-1801
Flucker, sister-in-law to Lucy Knox, writes about her children's health and well-being. Discusses the importance of good education and mentions that she plans to take her two sons, along with Mrs. Knox and her son, Henry, to look at a school. Hopes...
GLC02437.05488
9 August 1784
to Samuel Hardy
Knox informs Hardy, Chairman of the Congressional Committee of the States, that William Hull's mission to Canada failed. Hull had attempted to ascertain when Frederick Haldimand, Governor of the Province of Quebec, intends to withdraw British troops...
GLC02437.03039
28 September 1791
Hichborn, Benjamin, 1746-1817
Reports that he has "at last settled the principles on which the account is to be closed very much to my satisfaction tho not exactly upon my first plan." Says their "friend" was not of service as expected and he had to come forward and negotiate for...
GLC02437.05172
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