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to William S. Holabird

Forsyth discusses the Amistad case, revealing the administration's assumptions regarding the verdict of the trial. States that the Spanish minister had applied to the State Department for the "use of a vessel of the United States in the event of the...

GLC05636.18

Administracion general de rentas reales marítimas [In Spanish]

Partially printed. Bill of lading for the schooner Amistad. Lists items to be shipped for Don [illegible] including iron and copper. Numbered "6" on verso.

GLC05636.48

to Alexander McDougall

Written by Major General Knox to General McDougall, who was part of a committee sent to Congress by the army to lobby for half-pay pensions. Says he previously wrote "of the ferment which was raised in the minds of the officers by some anonymous...

GLC02437.02008

to Benjamin Lincoln

Written by Major General Knox to Secretary of War Lincoln. Knox says he wrote Lincoln on 3 March. Says the officers were unhappy after hearing about the failure of General McDougall's mission. Says "That impatience is almost heightened into dispair...

GLC02437.02000

to Mary Moore

He describes the students in his class, less wild than he expected. He reports a recent Catholic fair to benefit an orphan asylum, doing more for the relief of the destitute than any other denomination. M. Fitzsimmons, an Irish refugee and leader in...

GLC04191.29

Kreis Beuthen Land

Beginning with a description of their arrival in Beuthen Land, followed by the installation of their offices. A description of the situation at hand : a Polish insurrection in Upper Silesia had been suppressed by Germany. The Laundrat's methods are...

GLC02766.044

The Suffolk resolves: Proceedings of the ...

Printed by John Holt. The first printing in New York of the Suffolk Resolves. Evans 13701

GLC02438