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1815/02/13
Treaty of Ghent
Announcing the Treaty of Ghent. This broadside contains the news from both New York and London that peace between the United States and Great Britain had been signed..
GLC07929
16 December 1815
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
to Joseph Pitcairn
Written in the hand of Louisa Catherine Adams, requests that Pitcairn purchase and send Adams a copy of Johann Bode's "Uranographia," which contains "the most complete exposition of the starry Heavens, that has ever been exhibited." Mentions writing...
GLC04900.02
11 March 1815
Wolcott, Oliver (1760-1833)
to Eli Whitney
Discussing trouble with his son and noting that: "Most of the young men in our cities are deplorable."
GLC04979
22 May 1815
Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829)
to Mrs. J. Sargent Murray
"By glancing my eye on a passage or two in your brother's history of his use, in multitude of instances during two years, of the 'eau medicinale' d'Husson, I noticed the precision of description which I should expect from Govr. Sargent, and which is...
GLC09145
25 October 1815
Burr, Aaron (1756-1836)
To Jacob Gurby
Counsels a client on the best way to recover a slave: "If a Slave be brought from another state to the state of N York & there sold, such slave is by the laws of N York declared free. It is therefore of Moment to establish that the sale was made at...
GLC09286
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