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Document signed

circa 1779

Yonge, Henry, 1712-?

The Sloop Lucky Chance her Tackle and One Negro

One legal document in the Court of Vice Admiralty of East Florida given to Judge Robert Catherwood dated approximately 1779. Claims that the sloop "Lucky Chance" contained tackle and one enslaved person identified as "one Negro." The ship previously...

GLC01411.10
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Autograph letter signed

17 June 1783

Watson, Brook, 1735-1807

to Joshua Mauger

Discusses the loyalist migration to Canada after the end of the American Revolution. Reports that "the unhappy and Sacrificed Loyalists Continue to Embark for Nova Scotia in great Numbers indeed they have no other place of refuge." Claims that the...

GLC03902.032
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Typed letter signed

May 16, 1905

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

to William Taft

enclosing a letter from Col. Petit, with whom Chapman served in the Spanish American War.

GLC03921.11
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Document signed

1 September 1874

Moore, Francis, fl. 1874

[Final statement of Philip G. Gains]

Signed by Moore as Captain of the 9th Cavalry. States that Gains, an African American Private in Company L of the 9th Cavalry, enlisted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1 November 1873, and is discharged by reason of special order no. 131. Reports...

GLC07334.02.01
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Newspaper

22 November 1849

Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877

National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 10, no. 26, whole no. 494 (November 22, 1849)]

With previous owner's signature (John N. Russell) signed along right margin of first page. Contains a report on the Kentucky State Convention and miscellaneous other items. Edited by Quincy and James Russell Lowell. Published weekly by the...

GLC08875.13
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Photograph

circa 1861-1865

Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879

In civilian clothes, seated in chair

Imprint on recto "If any one attempts to haul down the American Flag, shoot him on the spot." Graphite inscription on verso "**Book."

GLC05111.02.0340
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Pamphlet

1836

Grimke, Angelina E., 1805-1879

Appeal to the Christian women of the south

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Among other arguments, Grimke denounces Biblical justifications of slavery. Loosely bound with string.

GLC08642
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Autograph letter signed

28 August 1794

Moustier, Éléonor François Élie, marquis de, 1751-1817

to Henry Knox [in French]

Letter is in French.

GLC02437.06186
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Autograph letter signed

21 August 1793

Jackson, William, 1759-1828

to Henry Knox [incomplete]

Discusses events in Europe, such as a Spanish defeat at Bayonne and that the Queen of France has been moved from a prison. Upper right portion burned or ripped through all pages, creating text loss.

GLC02437.08151

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