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Kneller, Godfrey, Sir (1646-1723)
[Engraving of Samuel Pepys]
Engraving that appears to be based on the painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, created in 1689.
GLC00496.258.02
1752
Carroll, Charles (1737-1832)
Caroli Carroll, Liber Anno 1752
Title is printed by hand on mauve colored wrapper, "Caroli Carroll, Liber Anno 1752." Latin school exercise book. Contains rhetoric and poetry exercises in Latin. Signed "Charles Carroll" twice on the last page.
GLC00600
October 1751
Ross, George (1730-1779)
[Case of Dalton verses McClure]
Details a case in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, between Andrew Dalton and Robert McClure about a promissory note for payment. Dated "October term."
GLC00682
13 January 1622
Brandt, Sebastian (fl. 1600-1625)
to Henry Hovener
Requests having the London Company send him supplies. Requests his nephew (the son of Phillip Brandt) be sent to Virginia from Derbyshire. Mentions Admiral of the Jamestown District John Pountis. Written in Elizabethan secretarial hand. Docket...
GLC00708
12 February 1761
Peters, Richard (1704-1776)
to William Johnson
Writes to the British commissioner about Northern Indian Affairs in upper New York. Discusses Indian tribes and Connecticut's attempt to get a new grant from the King. He concludes: "I most heartily congratulate You in the Surrender of Canada and...
GLC00766
09 January 1708
Dudley, Joseph (1647-1720)
to Colonel Saltonstall
Signed also by Robert Kembal, who notes it was received on 10 January 1708. Writes to Saltonstall to say that "Hutchins offers too peculiar a bargain" and to take none of his terms. Is sure that Saltonstall knows his duty and will jail deserters....
GLC00851
10 March 1762
Hardy, Josiah (1822-1900)
An act to Compleat the New Jersey Regiment to Six Hundred and Sixty Six effective volunteers, Officers included.
Document aims to raise additional men for the French & Indian War, with inducements including pardons. Details provisions for recruiting minors, slaves, and Indians. Additionally, allows Quakers to affirm, rather than swear, an oath. Signed by Hardy...
GLC00903
24 January 1735
Cosby, William (fl. 1690-1736)
Inquisition
Co-signed and sealed by Stephen Cortlandt, John Moore, David Clarkson, Joseph Reade, Anthony Duane, Enoch Stephenson, Thomas Vater, Gulian Verplanck, Thomas Day, Abraham Van Horne, David Abell, and Matthew Clarkson. Oaths taken at the house of...
GLC02055
7 September 1750-2 December 1750
Pell, William
Journal of an intended voyage on bord the ship Newport packet: with Gods [illegible] from London to Rhoad Island in New England.
Title continues: "Able Mitchener Commander. Kept by William Pell, 1750." Log book. The ship made land at Block Island on 29 November 1750. On the verso of the first leaf of the log is the draft of a letter from Pell to James Gray of London in which...
GLC02139
October 31, 1760
Bernard, Francis (1712-1779)
[Appointment of Charles Cushing Sheriff of Lincoln County, Massachusetts].
Also signed by Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Andrew Oliver. On 9 November 1760 Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Thomas Hutchinson warrants that Cushing has taken the oaths required for the office. With paper...
GLC02140
31 May 1762
Fitch, Thomas (1700-1774)
To James Noyes
Letter from Thomas Fitch to James Noyes granting Noyes further authority over troops in Stanford. A seal was at one point included, but it has since fallen off. Co-signed by George Wyllys.
GLC02150.23
30 December 1719
Unknown
[Announcement of James Noyes's death]
Religious funeral announcement for Reverend James Noyes, who died at the age of 80. The date on which he died is written December 30 17 19/20.
GLC02150.38
n.d.
William Coddington [picture]
Print of William Coddington, who was an official in the Massachusetts and Rhode Island colonies in the seventeenth century.
GLC02150.53
1756-1822
Declaration of Independence. Signers
Autographs of signers of the Declaration: .1-.12, .14-.52,.54-.56 [Decimalized .01-.56]
Set of autographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Provenance: IBM (Thomas J. Watson, to 1951), Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. (to 10/1968) and King V. Hostick; encapsulated
GLC00184
28 March 1762
Adams, Samuel (1722-1803)
[Tax revenues from David Wier to Samuel Adams for 1757-1760]
Contains Samuel Adams's signature as tax collector.
GLC00184.02
28 March 1757
Hopkins, Stephen (1707-1785)
Receipt for tax collected by Daniel Wilkerson for 580 Pounds
GLC00184.21
31 December 1756
Taylor, George
Receipt for iron sold to the United Brethren in Bethlehem, PA
With portions of two unrelated receipts on verso.
GLC00184.48
24 March 1762
Thornton, Matthew
Document re: deed for sale of "certain tract of a meadow"
Signed on verso by Thornton as Justice of the Peace.
GLC00184.49
01 June 1747
Wythe, George (1726-1806)
Document re: recovering a debt of 6 pounds for Elizabeth Hardin
Signed by Wythe as attorney for the plaintiff.
GLC00184.56
1751-1865
Christian discipline, and anti-slavery broadsides. [Decimalized .01-.07]
GLC00246
1751
Penn, William
Christian Discipline: Certain Good and Wholesome Orders, for the Well-Governing of My Family,in a right Christian Conversation, as becometh the Children of the Light and Truth, in the Most Hight GOD. Divided Into Two Parts.
First page contains guidelines for a religious household, as originally printed by William Penn. Reprint of original by Josiah Forster in 1751. Bible verses act as bookends on the top and bottom of William Penn's type. Note from Forster at the bottom...
GLC00246.01
circa 1760-1770
Society of Friends
Know all men by these presents, that in consideration of.
Printed certificate for conveying property to the Quakers, with entry spaces not filled in. Document formerly was adhered to back of a Penn broadside.
GLC00246.07
1693
Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
The Wonders of the Invisible world: Being an Account of the Tryals... [witches]
One of the most famous of early New England books, here in the first British edition printed at London, following the first edition published in Boston the same year. Mather meant to expose witchcraft and to support his friends in the government....
GLC00264
6 July 1640 ca
Williams, Roger
to John Winthrop
Discusses the current behavior of the Native Americans in his area. Mentions struggles between the sachem Uncas, allied with the European settlers, and his enemy, Miantinomo. Postscript possibly refers to the efforts of King Charles I to restore...
GLC01590
3 December 1755
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
to John Hunter
With autograph free frank. Franklin says that "By our late Act I am engag'd in the Disposition of the 60,000 pounds," money given to him by the Pennsylvania legislature to raise a militia for defence of the state's borders during the French and...
GLC01656
1675
England's present interest discovered, with honour to the prince, and safety to the people.
Advocates religious freedom in England. With heraldic bookplate of Robert Cony. Published seven years before Penn's founding of Pennsylvania.
GLC01672
1682
William Penn's last farewell to England.
Title continues: "being an epistle containing a salutation to all faithful friends, a reproof to the unfaithful, and a visitation to the enquiring, in a solemn farewell to them all in the land of my nativity." Printed for Thomas Cook.
GLC01673
1721
Care, Henry (fl. 1721)
English liberties, or the free-born subject's inheritance [1st American edition]
12mo. Fifth edition, first American edition. First printing of the Magna Carta in America. Printed by N. Buttolph, B. Eliot and D. Henchman. Rebound.
GLC01710
1744
Pennsylvania. Treaties
A treaty...by...Virginia and Maryland with...the indians of the Six Nations
Stab-stitched, uncut. Printed by Benjamin Franklin. First edition. The treaty was signed in June 1744. it renews allianace between Iroquois and Great Britain at the outbreak of hte French and Indian war. Boyd 3; Curtis/Cambell 84; Evans 5416...
GLC01711
1752-1776
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Laws, 1682-1776.
Volumes 1-3 printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall. Volumes 4-6 printed by Henry Miller. Volumes 1-5 signed by Member of the Governor's Council and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania John Penn.
GLC01712
12 July 1764
Franklin, B. and Meredith, H. (1729-1778)
Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1855 (July 12, 1764)]
Prints a declaration of John Penn, the Governor of the province of Pennsylvania, proclaiming the Delaware and Shawanese Indians enemies of the province. Reports that Penn will offer rewards for Indian captives or scalps and delineates the amount of...
GLC01713.01
19 April 1753
to William Smith
Thanks Smith for a copy of his A General Idea of the College of Mirania. Assures him of the quality of the education of Smith's pupils, Col. Martin's sons, at the College and Academy of Philadelphia. Mentions in particular teachers "Mr. Allison"...
GLC01722
3 May 1753
He has read Smith's "A General Idea of the College of Mirania," and compared his notes on the book with those of Richard Peters. He is enthusiastic about the book. In 1756 Smith headed the reorganization of the Franklin's College and Academy of...
GLC01723
29 November 1760
Livingston, Philip (1716-1778)
[Bill of sale for two slaves sold to Rieneer Van Giesen]
Bill of sale for two slaves of Philip Livingston, the well known merchant, Continental Congressman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Cosigned by his son Philip Philip Livingston and by Richard Jeffery Jr. as witnesses. Livingston sold...
GLC01775
4 February 1760
Pownall, Thomas (1722-1805)
[Appointment of Stephen Millar as lieutenant colonel of a regiment commanded by Abijah Willard]
Countersigned by Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Andrew Oliver. Partly printed document. Signed as "General and Governor in Chief" of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Pownall was Royal Governor from 1757 to 1760. Paper seal on top...
GLC01823
07 July 1702
to James Logan
Writes to introduce Henry Child, who is immigrating from England to Pennsylvania. Makes reference to the magistrates of Chichester as "our adversaries." Reports on mutual acquaintances in England. Written from Worminghurst, his estate in England....
GLC00088
02 April 1757
Waller, Benjamin
Subpoena: lawsuit between James Madison, Sr., and Carter Braxton
Subpoena document, signed by Benjamin Waller, in a lawsuit between James Madison, Sr., and Carter Braxton, dated April 2, [1757].
GLC00099.001
[ 1760 ca. ]
Pendleton, Edmund (1721-1803)
Manuscript note re: Pendleton's opinions on Beverley estate
Manuscript note in an unknown hand recording Edmund Pendleton's opinions on the settlement of the estate of Mr. Beverley. Undated. With notes by Pendleton on reverse "I forgot to give young Mr. Maddison..."
GLC00099.002
1755-1766?
to James Madison re: acquisition of military commissions
Unsigned and undated but probably late 1750s or early 1760s. Concerning the acquisition of military commissions in Williamsburg. Possibly incomplete at bottom.
GLC00099.003
29 May 1761
Document, in re: James Madison, Sr., vs. Carter Braxton
Document, signed by Benjamin Waller, in the case of James Madison, Sr., vs. Carter Braxton, May 29, [1761]. Concerning lands in Orange County, Va. Folded into book. A1v has written: "Madison &c. / v. / Braxton"
GLC00099.004
1760 ca.
Madison, James, Sr. (1723-1801)
Note: [Questions for Edmund Pendleton]
Series of questions, in the hand of James Madison, Sr., "Your answers to the following will oblige your affect't servant James Madison," with answers in the hand of Edmund Pendleton. No date, probably early 1760's. All concerning land deeds or...
GLC00099.005
14 April 1761
to James Madison re: lawsuit between James Madison, Sr and Carter Braxton
Document ordering partition of "the Ten thousand acres of Land at the little Mountain in the County of Orange."
GLC00099.010
31 August 1752
to James Madison re: lawsuits over land.
Concerning lawsuits over land. This is the earliest known Pendleton letter.
GLC00099.011
01 June 1757
to James Madison re: forwarding legal papers.
GLC00099.012
01 June 1761
to James Madison re: resolution of Madison v. Braxton
Sending documents relating to the resolution of the law suit. (Originally split into 2 pieces containing salutation and signature.)
GLC00099.014
11 May 1761
to James Madison re: Madison's suit, Taylor's election chances
GLC00099.016
15 January 1762
to James Madison re: legal opinion on Madison family wills and estate
Mentions passing down slaves.
GLC00099.017
21 May 1733
Moody, Joseph (fl. 1733)
[Rights of inheritance]
Document stating that as Margaret Houghton, wife of Joseph Houghton is the only surviving heir in her family, she will have the rights to the family estate and possessions.
GLC02437.08858
22 December 1733
[Note]
Notes regarding land transactions between Samuels Willard and Waldo.
GLC02437.08859
6 March 1732
Payne, John (fl. 1727-1732)
[Extracts]
Extracts from two wills. The first is dated 10 October 1729, from the will of John Pitts, settling his estate on his children. The second is dated 5 September 1727 from Susannah Jacobs leaving her legacy to her granddaughter.
GLC02437.08860
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