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to Henry Jackson

Reports on Mr. Vesey's health. Says Vesey was so ill that they took a small craft to Thomaston and that Captain Vose thought it best for them to remain a few days. Continues letter on 8 November and says Vesey is better. Reports he has spent 70...

GLC02437.05961

[Grievances of the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment]

Addressed to Colonel [John] Greaton, part of a committee, with Henry Knox, chosen to present the regiment's grievances to Congress. Colonel Shepard, Captain Isaac Pope and [Surgeon] Daniel Shute present grievances regarding lack of pay and lack of...

GLC02437.10056

Dementions & cost of a 16 inch wall for a fore wall at the magazine at Springfield

Document states each side wall will be 116 feet long and the ends will be 52 feet wide. Provides costs for 70,560 bricks, sand, boards, timber, and the labor to lay the bricks. The total comes to £179.9.0. Though dated in pencil with the year 1779...

GLC02437.08362

to David Henley

Written by Lieutenant Colonel Kingston as a staff officer to General John Burgoyne to Colonel Henley, former commander of the Prospect Hill barracks, under court martial for allegations of murder and mistreatment of British soldiers. In response to...

GLC04764.69

to Francis P. Blair

States that he is no longer partisan in public, but in private he retains many feelings towards those he once supported. Mentions his surprise that "young Hickory," meaning James K. Polk, dismissed many friends of the old administration. Expresses...

GLC03209.01

[Salaries for War Department employees]

Written in two different hands. Lists the salaries for War Department employees, including Caleb Swan and Constant Freeman, for the period of January, February and March, 1792. Signed by nine War Department employees: John Stagg Jr, R.J. Vanden...

GLC02437.05389

[Resolve]

Signed by Edward H. Robbins (Speaker), David Cobb (President), and John Avery. Noted as a true copy. A resolve from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives regarding the petitioners in Hampden, Maine. The Legislature...

GLC02437.07710

Treaty Between the United States of America and the Pottawatamie Tribe of Indians

Concerns the cession of Pottawatamie reservation land in the Iowa Territory, their removal, and the remuneration they will receive. Authorized by President James K. Polk. Treaty arranged by T.P. Andrews, Thomas H. Harvey, Gideon C. Matlock...

GLC08055.35