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to Simon Newton Dexter

Signed as "A. A. Dexter." Docket reads "Rodney B[illegible]." Mentions his father's memoir. Discusses his "planting business" and a successful crop. Writes, "I have now quite a reputation as a planter having made the best crop in the county... I had...

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to Artemas Lee

Written in pencil to his mother, Artemas Lee, in Templeton, Massachusetts. Reports fall of Yorktown and erroneously reports capture of Lee. Writes from a camp before Yorktown, Virginia.

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to John Langdon

Whipple, a Continental Congressman, discusses the appointment of naval officers with Langdon, Congressman and Continental Naval Agent. Discusses Langdon's suggestion to appoint Captain John Roche, admitting his apprehension that Roche's appointment...

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Instructions to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry

XYZ affair. Evans 34837. Sabin 34865. Disbound with paper wrapper. With date at top in ink: April 9, 1798

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Chicago tribune. [Vol. 28, no. 280 (April 15, 1865)]

Reports that president Lincoln has been assassinated and that an attempt was made on Secretary Seward's life. Also reports that Jefferson Davis has issued an edict at Danville. Article about reconstruction in Virginia on second page.

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[Manumission of a mulatto slave named Benjamin Harkimon (or Harkinson)]

Sends John B. Timberlake, bursar of the frigate United States commanded by Commodore Decatur, an official document freeing thirty-three-year-old Harkimon (or Harkinson), who was aboard the United States, with the stipulation that Harkimon pay $200...

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[Legal document giving authorization to sell a slave named Marshall]

Legal document, probably a copy, for the Bruice (or Bruce) family and Mahlon Gibson appointing John C. Armistead as their attorney with the power to sue for and receive any money due them and to sell "a certain Negro man named Marshall" currently in...

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to unknown

Lee, a Continental Congressman and signer of the Declaration of Independence, expresses disgust regarding political affairs to an unknown recipient. States "The demon of avarice, extortion, and fortune making seizes all racks- And now, to get into...

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Instructions to John Lamb to treat with Algiers

Co-signed by Jefferson 11 October 1785 in Paris. Lamb was instructed to confer with Minister Carmichael in Spain, then proceed to Algiers. The Continental Congress sent John Lamb to negotiate with Dey Mohomet of Algiers for the release of 21...

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[Appointment of Samuel Chew as a naval captain]

Signed by Continental Congressmen Morris, Thomas Burke, Abraham Clark, Philip Livingston, Henry Marchant, Roger Sherman, and Nicholas Van Dyke, who appoint Samuel Chew as a Captain in the Continental Navy. Instructs Chew to depart immediately for...

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[Receipt for salary as U. S. Supreme Court Justice]

Verifies receipt of $875 for a quarter term's salary ending on 31 March 1796. Received of Samuel Meredith, Treasurer of United States.

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Acts of Congress, general orders, and instructions for the guidance of boards of Registration, in the third military district, (Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.)

Acts of Congressional reconstruction, centering on the registration of freedmen to vote, beginning with two Acts "to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states," signed in type by Schuyler Colfax and Lafayette Foster; a second Act...

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Confederate Imprints: A bibliography

The first definitive bibliography of Confederate imprints, this formidable reference work will prove indispensable to scholars, libraries, collectors, and bookmen interested in the Civil War era. Completely revising, correcting, and extending the...

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The Prince library: a catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts which formerly belonged to the...

(title continues)... Reverend Thomas Prince, and was by him bequeathed to the old South Church and is now deposited in the public library of the City of Boston. Published by Alfred Mudge & Son printers. Divided in American part, foreign part, and...

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One hundred influential American books printed before 1900...

(title continues)... Catalogue and addresses. Exhibition at The Grolier Club, April eighteenth-June sixteenth, MCMXLVI. Published by the Grolier Club. Contents include the committee's selections, "America as Frontier," a catalogue of the...

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Collected catalogues of Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach

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The American's guide: Constitutions of the U.S.

Not a first edition. Modern marbled calf binding.

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Journals of Congress from Monday, August 9th to August 14th 1779

p. 9 misnumbered "10." Stab-stitched as issued.

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Journals of Congress from January 1st 1780 to January 31st 1780

Stab-stitched as issued.

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Remarks of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, on Kansas, Utah, and the Dred Scott decision. Delivered at Springfield, Illinois, June 12th, 1857.

Printed at the Daily Times Book and Job Office. "While the power of Congress to repeal the organic act and abolish the Territorial government cannot be denied, the question may arise whether we possess the moral right of exercising the power, after...

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Journal of the Voyages and travels of a corps of discovery [Lewis & Clark]

Howes G77, Wagner-Camp 6:2, Graff 1517, Field 595. First English edition. Reprinted from David M'Keehan's Pittsburgh edition.

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To the president and Council of Pennsylvania. The remonstrance of the subscribers, freemen, and inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia.

Written by imprisoned pacifist Quakers to express their grievances. They claim their confinement to be unlawful. This is demonstrated by the ninth and tenth sections of the Declaration of Rights, which call for disclosure of accusations along with...

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History of the Conquest of Mexico

Hill, p. 240, BAL 16340, Sabin 65262. The first American edition, second (corrected) printing. In original publisher's cloth. H. Bradley Martin's copy.

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History of the Conquest of Peru

H. Bradley Martin copy.

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The War. [Vol. 1-3, no. 1-119 (June 27, 1812-September 6, 1814, February, 1817)]

Published by S. Woodworth & Co., New York, New York.
The journal ran from July 1812 to September 1814, and was revived for three issues in February 1817. Signed on the title page by "H W Alamer." Bound volumes of Samuel Woolworth's periodical on...

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