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[Anti-Slavery Society resolution approving of the principles and practice of Gerrit Smith]

Circa date based on GLC06593.09. Praised by the abolitionists in Madison and Onondaga County, New York.

GLC06593.10

[Signatures of an Otisco, New York committee]

Possibly an anti-slavery committee. Includes the signatures of members from the towns of Otisco, Pompey, Salina, Onondaga, Manlius, and Skaneateles (all in Onondaga County, New York). Bottom right quadrant is missing. Circa date based on GLC06593...

GLC06593.16

to Gerrit Smith [incomplete]

Discusses the upcoming Friends of Liberty Convention, with Smith, a New York abolitionist. Notes that one object of the Convention is to extend circulation of anti-slavery material to the abolitionists of Madison and Onondaga County, New York....

GLC06593.17

to Aaron Hobart

Thanking Hobart for forwarding documents to them from Congress, and requesting any further communication Hobart can provide.

GLC06313.04.211

Remarks on some of the provisions of the laws of Massachusetts, affecting poverty, vice and crime

Contains Quincy's thoughts on the relation between poverty, crime and vice, and how society should deal with them. Printed by "Hilliard & Metcalf." Signed by Quincy on the front cover.

GLC06313.04.214

[Check promising payment of $124]

Payne promises to pay the sum to Waddell, Russell, & Co. (William Bradford Waddell, William Hepburn Russell, and Alexander Majors).

GLC04128.02

to Aaron Hobart

GLC06313.04.218

Memories of Wendell Phillips.

Essay of Smalley's personal memories of Wendell Phillips. Printed in the June 1894 edition of Harpers.

GLC07483.13

[Wendell Phillips]

Bust portrait engraving of Wendell Phillips as a young man. With his printed signature under the image.

GLC07483.14

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 30 (July 26, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Includes an article on the Massachusetts Abolition Society and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general...

GLC08875.51

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 33 (August 16, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an article from the Anti-Slavery Lecturer and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac Knapp as printer, and Oliver Johnson as general agent....

GLC08875.52

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 38 (September 20, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Contains an article entitled "Blind Leaders of the Blind!," a letter from William Jay to Lewis Tappan, and miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, Isaac...

GLC08875.54

The Liberator. [Vol. 15, no. 38, whole no. 766 (September 19, 1845)]

Contains articles on "Slavery in the United States," and Cassius M. Clay, among miscellaneous other reports. Garrison serves as editor, James Brown Yerrinton as printer, and Henry W. Williams as general agent. Discolored in creases.

GLC08875.58

to Nabby Gardner

Paritally printed letter signed by Thomas T. Tucker, enclosing a draft for two hundred and forty dollars. The letter was sent "Care of Aaron Hobart." Signed as Treasurer of the United States. The letter and address are on separate pages, which...

GLC06313.04.189

to Joseph B. Varnum

Inquires "what kinds of coins are a legal tender" for paying a debt to a neighbor, "an old tory," who refuses payment in Spanish dollars. At the time of this letter, Varnum was a United States Senator from Massachusetts.

GLC03845.10

Lithograph of Frederick Douglass

Circa dates based on several sources, indicating Currier and Ives' location at 125 Nassau St. between 1872 and 1874.

GLC08630.03

[Document attesting the free status of Richard Jackson].

One document dated April 29, 1813. Pertains to Richard Jackson, a freedperson. The form is partially printed and filled out by Thomas Blake as a character witness. It states, "the said Richard became free in or before the year 1800." Validated by New...

GLC08251

to his mother

Vinton, a captain of a northern regiment assisted in the suppression of Nat Turner's slave rebellion: "I doubt if any active movement against the slaves will be necessary...[They] however are irresponsible and reckless and it is difficult to foresee...

GLC08258

The liberator. [Vol. 10, no. 1 (January 3, 1840) - v. 11, no. 53 (December 31, 1841)]

GLC06109.01

The liberator. [Vol. 12, no. 1 (January 7, 1842) - v. 13, no. 52 ( December 29, 1843)]

GLC06109.02

The liberator. [Vol. 14, no. 1 (January 5, 1844) - v. 15, no. 52 (December 26, 1845)]

GLC06109.03

The liberator. [Vol. 16, no. 1 (January 2, 1846) - v. 17, no. 53 (December 31, 1847)]

GLC06109.04

to Aaron Hobart

Sends Congressman Hobart a copy (not included) of several resolutions passed by the state legislature. Signature clipped and missing.

GLC06313.04.150

Account receipt

Account receipt for monies owed by William Knox to Prince Gorham. Knox paid Gorham £31.6.

GLC02437.08537

[Henry's Knox's wagon being left in the care of John Setter]

Note by Setter says a white man left Henry Knox's wagon in his care.

GLC02437.08556

The estate of General Henry Knox deceased to Sarah Dunton

List of expenses for Knox's funeral. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.08853

[Treasury warrant for $250.34 to Asa Brigham, Treasurer of the Republic of Texas]

Signed by Shaw and comptroller and countersigned by Charles Mason as auditor. Endorsed on the verso by Asa Brigham. Partially printed document appropriating money to cover the expenses of Brigham's office from funds permitted by an act dated 6...

GLC06624.11

[Texas land grant to "John S Boucher assignee of Hoard Claybrook"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by J. Crosby (possibly Josiah Frazier Crosby), commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of 320 acres in Hunt County, Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the...

GLC06623.15

[Texas land grant to "Stephen D. Barker assignee of Thomas R. Jennison"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by J. Crosby (possibly Josiah Frazier Crosby), commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of 320 acres in Hunt County, Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the...

GLC06623.16

[Texas land grant to "Leonidas Wilson, Assignee of Jones Whittaker"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by J. Crosby (possibly Josiah Frazier Crosby), commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of 284 acres in Collin County, Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the...

GLC06623.18

[Certification of a deed signed by Thomas Davis and Richardson selling land to Robert Wilson and Walter C. White]

Certifies that a deed was given to Wilson and White for land then located in Harrisburg, Texas. The deed had been lost. Date approximated from the period in which Richardson lived in Harrisburg.

GLC06623.21

[Texas land deed of sale]

Certifies the sale of one quarter of a league of land "on the Trinity River near Cashatta Village" from Richardson to Edward Hall of Houston, Texas, for $1,000. The land had been granted to Richardson on 20 November 1835. Witnessed by George R...

GLC06623.22

[Marriage certificate of Edward R. Glover and Emma L. Fowlkes]

Partially printed certificate recording the marriage performed according to the Protestant Episcopal Church. Benners was the rector of Christ Church in Jefferson, Texas.

GLC06623.26

[Certification of Michael Pevito's right to Texas land]

Signed by West as president of the Board of Land Commissioners of Jefferson County, Texas, and countersigned by Hezekeah Williams and John Bollinger. Attested to by Joseph P. Pulsifer, clerk. Certifies that Pevito came to Jefferson County in October...

GLC06624.02

[Texas land indenture]

Certifies the sale of lots in Gonzales County, Texas, from Caldwell, James Campbell, and Arthur Swift to H.G. Henderson for $50. Describes the lots.

GLC06624.03

[Certification of a Texas land deed]

Niles, the recorder of Lincoln County, Texas, certifies a land deed (not included). Docket signed by Judge Jesse Grimes.

GLC06624.06

[Texas land indenture witnessed by Stephen W. Blount]

Certifies Obediah Hendrick's purchase of land in San Augustine, Texas, from William Ward for $230. John Hendrick signed as Obediah Hendrick's lawyer and A. Hotchiss signed as "P Judge." Blount signed as a witness along with J.D. Thomas.

GLC06624.09

[Promise to pay J.B. Johnson $325]

Promise made "in lieu of E.A. Townsends Certificate for one League & Labor of Land." In a note on the verso dated 19 December 1838, J.B. Johnson writes: "By cash of the within fifty dollars."

GLC06624.10

[Receipt for gun and gun servicing for the Army of the Republic of Texas]

Written while a delegate from San Augustine to the Convention of 1836, Parmer indicates that he has received "of Seth Parker a gun" worth $12 and "services in repairing guns" worth $14.50 and asks that "the treasurer of said Republic...please pay...

GLC06624.15

[Engraving of a young Alexander Hamilton]

Note signed by Frederick Reynolds indicates the image was engraved in mezzotint and printed in color. Accompanied (but unrelated to) GLC02908.01.

GLC02908.02

to Wendell P. Garrison

Writing to the son of William Lloyd Garrison, Purvis, an abolitionist and civil rights leader, answers several queries about the birth dates and places, deaths, and locations of important events among old guard abolitionists. He mentions James...

GLC08943

Memorial of the Pennsylvania State Equal Rights' League, to the Legislature of Pennsylvania

Asks that the government force companies operating public trolleys to allow black passengers. Public trolleys run by private companies had been routinely barring black passengers from their cars. Signed in text by a number of citizens, including...

GLC08957

Letter regarding Congressional order and broadsheet of the order [Decimalized .01-.02]

Letter from Alexander Hamilton to Simeon Baldwin requesting compliance with a Congress' order to compile all federal salaries, and a broadsheet with the order printed out.

GLC08960

[Texas land grant to "Benjamin Bacus assignee of Willis H. Landrum"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by Robert M. Elgin, chief clerk and acting commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of 325 acres in Hunt County, Texas. Specifies the precise location and boundaries of the tract...

GLC06623.14

[Stephen Douglas' representation of Kimball in Tillsen & Pitkin v. Kimball]

Legal document in case of Robert Tillsen and Seth Pitkin versus Edward Kimball regarding a mortgage foreclosure. Douglas, a lawyer and Senator from Illinois, states that the plaintiffs are to receive a sum of $4,790.

GLC03142.01

[Engraving of Stephen Arnold Douglas]

Published by R.R. Landon, Chicago, Illinois. Engraving of Stephen A. Douglas, a lawyer and Senator from Illinois.

GLC03142.02

to John Y. Mason

Introduces Colonel Arthur P. Hayne of South Carolina.

GLC03883.05

The Constitution of the New-Jersey Society, for the Promoting of Abolition of Slavery...

GLC08896

Minutes of the Proceedings of the Second Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States, Assembled in Philadelphia ...

GLC08897

to Edward Dorr Griffin

Engraving by Paradise based on a painting by Waldo & Jewett (Samuel Lovett Waldo and William Jewett). Possibly originally created in New York. Date of creation inferred; possibly created between the time Jewett joined Waldo as a partner (roughly...

GLC08882.02

to Simeon Baldwin

Instructs Baldwin to comply with the enclosed Congressional act ordering that a list of all federal salaries be compiled by the Treasury Department. Baldiwn's reply on verso states that he has complied and enclosed "statements of my fees and...

GLC08960.01

[Congresstional order for Treasury Department to compile federal salaries]

Congress ordering the Secretary of the Treasury to present the senate with a statement of "salaries, fees and emoluments...of every person holding any civil office or employment under the United States...together with the actual disbursements and...

GLC08960.02

to A.W. Reese

Days after triumphing over the Spanish Squadron at Santiago, Cuba, and sent from flagship Brooklyn: "Thank you for your note of congratulation. I am afraid I am being praised more than I deserve for a simple act of duty which my whole training in...

GLC09073

[Treaty of Ft. Stanwix]

Extract from congressional minutes: "... General Schuyler...is hereby directed to expedite the return of the deputation from the late hostile tribes of Indians...that due notice shall be given them of the time and place where Congress will hold a...

GLC09059.01

to paymaster Joseph Howell

Authorizes two month's pay for two artillery companies, one infantry company, and an account of monies due to officers at West Point on 1 April 1790, stationed at St. Mary's River, Georgia.

GLC09060

The Anti-Slavery Record, Volume 1, Number 11.

Cover engraving depicts Amos Dresser being caned. Lead article addresses his martyrdom.

GLC09001

[Names and addresses of John Brown collector and two others]

Lists the names and addresses of Dr. C. W. Olsen, Boyd Stutler, and Mrs. M. Winchester. Boyd Stutler, 1889-1970, was a famous collector of John Brown documents, the other two are unknown.

GLC03007.54

In the Senate of the United States.

41st Congress 3rd Session Report No 268 Senate

Pages 6-7 uncut

GLC03776.12

In the Senate of the United States

28th Congress 1st Session [319] Senate

GLC03776.16

William Baker

23th Congress 1st Session Rep. No. 224 [House of Representative]

GLC03776.21

In the Senate of the United States

28th Congress 1st Session [311] [Senate]

GLC03776.24

In The Senate of the United States

28th Congress 1st Session [319] [Senate]

GLC03776.26

In the Senate of the United States

29th Congress 2nd Session [222] Senate

One fold out

GLC03776.28

Florida Indians

19th Congress 2nd Session Doc. No. 82 House of Represenatives War Department

GLC03776.30

Stockbridge and Musee Indians

37th Congress 3rd Session Ex. Doc. No. 61 House of Represenatives

GLC03776.33

Petition

26th Congress 2nd Session [214] Senate (2nd Copy)

GLC03776.35

Petition

26th Congress 2nd Session [213] Senate (2nd Copy)

GLC03776.36

Approriations for Indian Tribes

38th Congress 1st Session Ex. Doc. No. 96 House of Represenatives

GLC03776.38

New York - Inhabitants of - Cherokee Indians

22nd Congress 1st Session Doc. No. 175 House of Represenatives

GLC03776.46

Treasury Warrant

Treasury warrant noting money paid to Burleson for his salary as Vice President of Texas.

GLC03521.02

Stockbridge and Munsee Indians

37th Congress 3rd Session Ex. Doc No 61 House of representatives

GLC03776.03.01

Appropriation for Indian Tribes

38th Congress 1st Session Ex. Doc No 96 House of representatives (2nd Copy)

GLC03776.06

Receipt for the Cherokee annuity for 1808

GLC07562.03.07

Receipt for payment of two spinning wheels

GLC07562.03.08

Petition re: Doublehead reservation

GLC07562.03.13

Argument re: John Riley case

GLC07562.03.23

[Carte de viste of John Brown taken by James M. Holmes]

GLC09190.10

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.01

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.02

[to unknown recipient]

Either the 19th or the 25 of January as letter states "Friday Evening".

GLC09327.03

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.04

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.05

[to "Souli"]

GLC09327.06

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.08

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.09

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.10

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.11

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.13

[to "Sauiee"]

GLC09327.14

[to "My Cousin Mrs. Sau"]

GLC09327.15

[to unknown recipient]

GLC09327.17

Proceedings Of The Second Convention...

GLC09381.02

Proceedings Of The Third Convention...

GLC09381.03

Proceedings Of The Fourth Convention...

GLC09381.04

A Record of the Proceedings of the Executive Committee of the Hamilton County Anti-Slavery Society

Westfield, IN. Primarily concerned with the founding of the Society's library, with a budget of fifteen dollars for books, entries record a "code of rules for the regulation of the Library," day-to-day logistics, including places and times for...

GLC09382.01

[KKK broadside]

"KKK" surrounding large crude woodcut of coffin under skull and crossbones. "The Trial Is At Hand! / The appointed day and hour will soon come!! Fail not-& if thou dost-**** / At night when the clock strikes **…[inserted in Ms: "the Stars Means to...

GLC09386

General Taylor at Monterey

One engraving entitled "General Taylor at Monterey" dated 1858. Depicts the Battle of Monterey where the Army of Occupation led by General Zachary Taylor defeated Mexican troops led by General Pedro de Ampudia. Engraved by William Wellstood after an...

GLC08878.0093

[Portraits of Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster and Henry Clay]

One untitled engraving circa 1861-1877. Portraits of Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay. Engraved by John Sartain.

GLC08878.0100

The Knox manuscripts:

Title continues, "being the substance of a report made at the annual meeting of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, January 5, 1881, on the arrangement and binding of the manuscripts presented to the Society by the late Rear Admiral Henry...

GLC02437.10737

The Black Panther. [Vol. 6, no. 4 (February 20, 1971)]

One issue of The Black Panther newspaper dated February 20, 1971.

GLC09416.01