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to Gilbert M. de Lafayette re: transition in Louisiana Purchase territory

"I had rather have your single person there than an army of ten thousand men for the purpose of securing the tranquility & preservation of the country."

GLC07560.01

to Henry Knox

Written from the "War Office," which was likely in New York City during this period. Pemberton, apparently a staff member of Knox's at the War Office, relates several matters of business for Knox while he is away in Boston. Writes that he was so...

GLC02437.03293

Map of colonization grants in Texas

Land grants in Texas. Streeter 1164. Once belonged to Anthony Dey.

GLC02759

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a report and map of the examination of New Mexico...

Title continues "made by Lieutenant J. W. Abert, of the Topographical Corps."

GLC04148

John Moore Collection [Decimalized .01-.42]

Contains a map, a general order, 39 letters, and a memoir, pertaining to the Utah Expedition of 1857-1861.

GLC04194

Ley de Colonizacion... [law opening Texas to American colonization] [In Spanish]

Printed by Samuel Bangs. First printing. References: Streeter 727; Streeter Sale 297.

GLC04247

Acts passed at the second session of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Orleans, Begun and held at the Principal, in the city of New-Orleans, on Thursday the twentieth day of June, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States the twenty-ninth

Published by Bradford in New Orleans. Title page signed by Pierre Derbigny. "House of Representatives" is also written on the page, possibly referring to the Louisiana State House of Representatives.

GLC04497

Album with 31 CDVs of prominent Mormons, including Brigham Young; Indians

Album includes Brigham Young, Indians, Salt Lake City buildings. Most with Salt Lake City imprints of Savage & Ottinger and Carter's Lake View Emporium.

GLC04264

[Ohio land grant to Robert Parks of Harrison County, Ohio]

Partially printed document granting Robert Parks seventy nine acres in Steubenville, Ohio. Signed by John Quincy Adams as President and countersigned by George W. Graham as Commissioner of the General Land Office. Certificate No. 1251. Recorded in...

GLC04900.03