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Diplomatic correspondence of the Republic of Texas (Annual reports of AHS 1907-8 vol 1

Edited by George P. Garrison

GLC00267.106.01

Diplomatic correspondence of the Republic of Texas (Annual reports of AHS 1907-8 vol 2

Edited by George P. Garrison

GLC00267.106.02

Reports of General Land Office, with Atlas vol 1

The report is printed in English, with four land promotion tracts in English, French, German and Swedish. Accompanied by an atlas containing 23 folding cloth color maps of each area. One of the maps is said to be the first to show Nevada with its...

GLC07453.01

Reports of General Land Office, with Atlas vol 2

The report is printed in English, with four land promotion tracts in English, French, German and Swedish. Accompanied by an atlas containing 23 folding cloth color maps of each area. One of the maps is said to be the first to show Nevada with its...

GLC07453.02

Galveston entrance, Texas, from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache superintendant of the survery of the coast of the United States

Map of the Galveston entrance in Texas from 1853. Sailing directions written on righthand side of document, including information about tides. Harbor shown is the Gulf of Mexico. Includes compass. Scale noted on bottom. Triangulation by R.H...

GLC02941

Views of Louisiana; together with... a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811

Full title: "Views of Louisiana : together with a Journal of a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811" Printed and published by Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, Franklin head office.

GLC04140

General epistle from the Council of the Twelve Apostles, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints abroad, dispersed throughout the earth.

Signed in type by President Young and Clerk Willard Richards. A letter narrating Mormon history from their expulsion from Illinois in 1846 until their settlement in Utah and their founding of Salt Lake City. Invites like-minded people in the...

GLC04149

Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-'44

Published by Gales and Seaton. First edition. Inscribed to Samuel Marx by James Buchanan, with his signature. Recounts Frémont's 1842 expedition to Oregon, the second of his three expeditions. The folding map has been removed from the book (see...

GLC05103.01

Pamphlets related to the extension of slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska dispute [Decimalized .01-.20]

GLC05116

to Winthrop Sargent

Serving as Secretary of State, Pickering informs Sargent that he sent Sargent's commission as Governor of the Mississippi Territory. States that new seals and presses are being made for the use of this Territory.

GLC07370

Constitution or form of government of the state of Louisiana

Stab-stitched. The first printing of the first Louisiana constitution, the first constitution for any state west of the Mississippi. "The enabling act providing for calling a convention to frame a constitution for Louisiana was passed February 20...

GLC05482

to Joseph H. Hawkins, re: payment to Gen. James Wilkinson

Directing Hawkins to pay Gen. Wilkinson for funds borrowed by Austin while in Texas tryiing to confirm his "old three hundred" grant. Endorsed by James Perry, Austin's executor, and signed by Wilkinson in receipt of payment.

GLC01156

Topographical map of the road from Missouri to Oregon

Compiled by Charles Preuss, 1846, by command of the Senate. In Seven Sections. Scale 10 miles to the inch. Litho by E. Weber & Co., Baltimore.

GLC01873

to Joseph F. Spier re: hard times in city of Houston

A long and excellent description of Texas in 1841. Spier concludes by saying he planned to return home to the US. Written at Galveston

GLC02578

Message from the President of the United States, communicating information called for by the resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, in relation to California and New Mexico

Includes all reports from the heads of departments which contain information in President Taylor's possession regarding California and New Mexico. Book lacks proper cover.

GLC08702

California claims. In the Senate of the United States

Claim for repayment of money and supplies furnished by the people of California. Response from Secretary of War Marcy indicates that without special legislation, a large amount of money cannot be repaid. Pamphlet includes testimony in Congress...

GLC00267.109

to Capt. John Lestor

Written on blue lined paper. The letter discusses the annexation of Texas and California. Letter written to Captain John Lestor of Baltimore.

GLC00760

Purchase of land in Colorado

GLC03107.05416

Map to illustrate Capt. Bonneville's adventures among the Rocky Mountains.

The map covers the western United States, with Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and Arkansas. Published in New York by George P. Putnam. Owned by John Moore (1826-1907), an army surgeon with the Utah...

GLC04194.01

to John Kennedy and Thomas W. Wilson

Written at Fort Gibson Cherokee Agency

GLC07562.03.12

[California and New Mexico]

Message from President Taylor including all reports and correspondence relating to California and New Mexico. Lacks a proper cover.

GLC08701

Adams & Co Bank note 30 dollars

GLC09234.09

Adams & Co Bank note $277.95

GLC09234.10

Adams & Co Bank note $270.06

GLC09234.11

Adams & Co Bank note $150

GLC09234.12

Adams & Co Bank note $208.69

GLC09234.13

Adams & Co Bank note $270.06

GLC09234.14

Adams & Co Bank note $300

GLC09234.15

Adams & Co Bank note $347.50

GLC09234.16

Adams & Co Bank note $286.51

GLC09234.17

Adams & Co Bank note $297.74

GLC09234.18

Adams & Co Bank note $375

GLC09234.19

Adams & Co Bank note $300

GLC09234.20

Adams & Co Bank note $200

GLC09234.21

Adams & Co Bank note $400

GLC09234.22

Adams & Co Bank note $200

GLC09234.23

[Certifying land purchase]

Jas H. Starr DS Certifying land purchase of Edward C. Smithson, 7/6/1840. 2 p.

GLC02145.80.02

[Unaccompanied docket leaf]

Unaccompanied docket leaf for Sam Houston document re: land business. 7/21/1847. 1 p.

GLC02145.80.15

to H. S. Abott

Agrees to lecture at New Rochelle next Wednesday. Two possible topics are "Western America" and "Great Men."

GLC05603.01.07

[Texas land grant to "the School Commissioners of Hunt County, and their Successors"]

Signed by Pease as governor and countersigned by J. Crosby (possibly Josiah Frazier Crosby), commissioner of the General Land Office. Partially printed grant of "One League" in "Cooke District, Wise and Cooke Counties," Texas. Specifies the precise...

GLC06623.17

to B.C. Franklin

Discusses issues related to a land survey.

GLC06623.23

[Land survey instructions for Major Benjamin Tennel]

Provides instructions for Tennel to follow in exercising his duties as land surveyor. Broken down into nineteen articles specifying how Tennel should conduct his job.

GLC06624.05

[Report from a meeting of the directors and agents of the Ohio Company]

Discusses a contract stating the boundaries of a tract land in the Ohio valley region between the Board of Treasury and Manasseh Cutler. Also that another tract be reserved for a city and common land in the Ohio valley region. Noted that the...

GLC02437.03648

New York daily tribune. [Vol. 4, no. 280 (March 1 1845)]

resolution for annexing texas.

GLC08758

Newark daily advertiser. [Vol. 5, no. 38 (April 21, 1836)]

[government of Texas organized]

GLC08836

Leftwich grant of stock in Texas Association

Also signed by J.P. Erwin. Streeter 1087, locating only two copies.

GLC02402

[Texas land indenture from Branch T. Archer to Giles M. Stone]

Archer signs over to Stone the title for "one half of the land secured to me...by the annexed deed...by N.F. Smith." Witnessed by William Christy, Willis A Jarvis, and J.W. Moorly. The deed from Niles Smith appears on p. 2-3, and specifies the...

GLC06623.01

to W. Croft

In compliance with Croft's request, encloses the "affidavits...as to value of lots proposed to be exchanged for the Collins farm" and a sworn statement on the prices he received for them when he sold them to Collins (none of the enclosed items...

GLC06623.28

Adams & Co Bank note $328.38

GLC09234.24

to Dr. James L. Ord re: early military career in California

GLC07857