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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
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
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
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
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
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
1755-1766?
Pendleton, Edmund (1721-1803)
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
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
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