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1821/03/02-1821/03/04
Burr, Aaron (1756-1836)
to Martha Bradstreet re: current legal situation of Bradstreet
Opinions on war in Europe against Naples and Spain told via allegory of turkeys and ducks.
GLC07712
2 December 1828
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
[Peace treaty with Winnebago Native Americans]
Serving as President of the United States, John Quincy Adams certifies that Naw-kaw, a Winnebago chief, smoked the peace pipe with him in Washington, D.C. Countersigned by Peter Buell Porter, Secretary of War. Reports that Adams has full confidence...
GLC05120.01
1848
Punch (magazine)
[Overseers with a Black child]
One print of Abraham Lincoln for the magazine, Punch. Reverse side contains print of a male and female overseer with a Black enslaved child. The child's face is not shown but does appear to be pleading to the man. The woman is wearing stripes with a...
GLC08878.1219
26 February 1822
Unknown
to Aaron Hobart
Written from the Treasury Department & Auditor's Office. Indicates that Edward Morton's claim for monies owed for a barge supplied during the War of 1812 (see GLC06313.143) was approved and he will be paid $289.
GLC06313.04.184
26 November 1819
Key, Francis Scott (1779-1843)
to Henry Maynadier
Written from Georgetown. Key writes to his uncle about depressed stock prices. He also discusses colonizing 12 captured Africans who are in Baltimore (he does not explain how they came to be there), in reference to his efforts through the American...
GLC02379
1828
Binns, John (1772-1860)
Monumental Inscriptions.
8 images of fictitious funeral monuments, each to a man executed by Jackson. The first six are for Tennessee militiamen executed in February 1815, after the Battle of New Orleans, for being deserters. The last two are for John Woods, a mutineer...
GLC08460
14 February 1822
Cutting, Nathaniel (b. 1774)
Discusses a memorial petition requesting a military land bounty for Stephen Raymond, the heir to Revolutionary War veteran Solomon Raymond, which had again come to his office. Indicates that his feelings about its merits have not changed and that he...
GLC06313.04.153
1817
Washington, Bushrod (1762-1829)
A view of exertions lately made for the purposes of colonizing the free people of colour, in the United States, in Africa, or elsewhere
A pamphlet containing Bushrod's memorial as president of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States, along with other writings on the subject of colonization. Includes speeches by Henry Clay and many others...
GLC05181
1818/12/24
Fowarding his correspondence with Spain
Fowarding his correspondence with Spain: The purchase of Florida, Seminole war, Andrew Jackson and execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister.
GLC07981
15 March 1822
Gurney, Nathan (1769-1850)
Seeks Hobart's aid in discovering the status of a pension application for a widow, Nabby Gardner, of a soldier killed in the War of 1812. The docket contain information on Zachary Gardner's service.
GLC06313.04.170
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