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8 November 1799
Washington, George (1732-1799)
to unknown
Angry letter to an official regarding William Shepherd, who "acted a very disingenuous part" on a previous survey of Washington's land.
GLC04013
9 January 1787
to Daniel Carroll
Washington seeks to sell 1650 acres of land in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He is willing to sell for less than the going rate if the purchaser takes the entire tract, and outlines the payment plan he would expect.
GLC04043
19 September 1814
Monroe, James (1758-1831)
to Simon Snyder
Secretary of State Monroe indicates that, in response to the British leaving Baltimore after the Battle of Baltimore, the orders for the Pennsylvania militia were being revised. They are now ordered to protect Philadelphia against a potential attack...
GLC04044
11 April 1806
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
to John Mason
Asks General Mason to serve as one of three disinterested commissioners for the Cumberland Road, two of which should come from "this quarter." A post script indicates he was also asking Thomas Moore, who accepted. Mason apparently declined, since...
GLC04076
1806
Message from the President...transmitting...treaties...between... Indians
Printed by A. & G. Way. Transmitting copies of treaties made with "sundry tribes of Indians."
GLC04101
7 October 1796
to Commissioners of the City of Washington
Notifies the commissioners that Washington sent the wrong enclosure in a recent letter to them, requests its return, and indicates that the correct one has been sent. The commission was superintending the construction of the city of Washington and...
GLC04103
16 August 1793
Knox, Henry (1750-1806)
to John Hancock
Knox, Secretary of War, discusses President George Washington's orders regarding captured naval prizes. Requests that Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, restore any naval prizes brought into the harbors and ports of Massachusetts to the master or...
GLC04109
1807
Pike, Zebulon M. (1779-1813)
An Account of a voyage up the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to its source
With folding map. Full title: "An account of a voyage up the Mississippi River : from St. Louis to its source, made under orders of the war department, by Lieut. Pike, of the United States Army, in the years 1805 and 1806 / compiled from Mr. Pike's...
GLC04139
18 September 1787
to Elizabeth M. Clymer
A one page note pasted in oblong direction on front pastedown of Barlow's Vision of Columbus. (The book is carried on inventory as GLC 4217.01.) Written as president of the Constitutional Convention. The Barlow book was printed in Hartford.
GLC04217
1787
Barlow, Joel (1787-1812)
The Vision of Columbus; A Poem in Nine Books [part of GLC 4217]
Supplemental record for book holding a George Washington letter. USE WITH CARE. With a 12 page subscribers' list which includes George Washington, Lafayette, Franklin (6 copies), Thomas Paine, Louis XVI, many other prominent figures. This work was...
GLC04217.01
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