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circa 31 January 1791
Knox, Henry (1750-1806)
[Account]
Abstract of the accounts of the United States regarding expenditures from 1 January 1790 - 31 January 1791.
GLC02437.10588
23 July 1792
Biddle, Clement (1740-1814)
Account between Henry Knox and Clement Biddle. Lists transactions by date from 31 December 1791 to 29 June 1792.
GLC02437.10591
17 February 1793
Hodgdon, Samuel (1745-1824)
Lists transactions between Joseph Howell and Samuel Hodgdon by date starting from 11 July to 2 November 1791.
GLC02437.10595
15 June 1795
Noted as a copy. An account of Henry Knox's with Samuel Hodgdon from May 1795 to June 1795. Lists amounts paid to George Meade.
GLC02437.10623
10 April 1793
Unknown
Lists transactions between John Stille and Henry Knox from 14 January 1792 to 9 April 1793. Date from docket.
GLC02437.08663
22 December 1795
Lists transactions between Henry Knox and Clement Biddle regarding various sales, notes and other financial matters.
GLC02437.08701
13 February 1797
Anthony, Joseph (fl. 1792-1797)
Lists transactions between Joseph Anthony and Henry Knox by date and including interest. Date from docket.
GLC02437.08708
December 1797
List of transactions between Henry Knox and John Jones for the month of December, listed by date.
GLC02437.08719
circa 1806
Account of various items for Sarah Lyons Flucker paid by the late Henry Knox. Items listed by date.
GLC02437.08727
circa 2 October 1799
Rynier, John (1797-1802)
Lists transactions between John Rynier and Henry Knox by date from 8 September 1798 to 2 October 1799.
GLC02437.08745
14 Novemer 1799
Houston, Robert (1765-1824)
Lists transactions between Henry Knox and Robert Houston regarding land surveys, contracts and other related business.
GLC02437.08760
30 April 1800
Lists transactions between Henry Knox and Jonathan Eames by date. Date from docket.
GLC02437.08767
4 November 1800
List of transactions between Henry Knox and the firm Horton & Greaves starting 17 May to 15 June. Most are related to building materials such as wood and brickyards.
GLC02437.08778
12 March 1804
Dennie, James (fl. 1804)
Lists transactions between Henry Knox and Thomas Dennie, listed by date. Signed by James Dennie. Most transactions are regarding wine and other alcohol.
GLC02437.08824
1 November 1804
Fuller, John (fl. 1804)
Lists transactions between Henry Knox and John Fuller, ranging from 10 May to 31 July.
GLC02437.08835
24 December 1804
Conner, E. (fl. 1804)
Lists transactions between Henry Knox and E[liphabet ?] Conner from 6 January to December of 1804.
GLC02437.08838
7 May 1760
Accounts for the late James Bowdoin, with an inventory of his estate. Notes that James Pitts is his executor.
GLC02437.08999
16 December 1783 - 2 June 1788
Holden, Aaron (fl. 1783)
[Accounts for Aaron Holden]
Lists accounts and notes for payment for Captain Aaron Holden. Signed by Benjamin Haywood and John Pierce. Verso contains letter written by Joseph Howell signed 2 June 1788.
GLC02437.02836
circa 13 December 1796
Andrew & Loring (fl. 1796)
[Accounts]
List of transactions between Thomas Flucker and the firm Andrew & Loring with payment from Henry Ware. Items listed by date.
GLC02437.08705
circa 1750-1820
Lists transactions for a Mr. Flucker, most likely Thomas Flucker, and others.
GLC02437.09918
January 1787
[Acknowledgment of legal counsel in case of James Swan v. John Campbell]
Note about a New York Supreme Court case pitting James Swan against John Campbell. Acknowledges Balthazar DeHaert as Swan's attorney, defending him against John Campbell's charge of trespass. See GLC02437.03690 for related information.
GLC02437.03437
20 April 1818
Monroe, James (1758-1831)
[Act in addition to another act prohibiting the importation of slaves]
Passed by Congress and approved by the President. Outlines the ban on importing slaves, the forfeiture of ships built for such a purpose, and the penalties for involvement in the slave trade. The act being added to prohibited the importation of...
GLC08946
10 March 1658
Sanford, John
[Acts and orders made at the General Court of Commissioners held for this Colony at Portsmouth, March the tenth 1658]
Written by Chief Magistrate of the Colony at Portsmouth Sanford. Report of a meeting moderated by Benedict Arnold.
GLC00496.079
1861-1865
Gutekunst F. (fl 1861-1865)
[Admiral Lardner, U.S.N., carte de visite]
White mount with Gutekunst imprint on verso. Pencil caption from album: "Admiral Lardner, U.S.N." Vignette bust portrait in uniform.
GLC04187.11
Silsbee, Case & Co. (fl 1861-1865)
[Admiral Wilkes, U.S. Navy, carte de visite]
White mount with gold border; Silsbee, Case & Co. imprint on verso. Pencil caption from album: "Admiral Wilkes, U.S. Navy." Three quarter length standing portrait in uniform.
GLC04187.18
8 November 1865
Russell, G.B. (fl. 1865)
[Admission ticket to the hanging of Captain Henry Wirz at the Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C.]
Wirz's hanging is not mentioned but the date of admission is 10 November 1865, the day he was hanged at the Old Capital Prison. Small yellow printed card. The name of the bearer has been scratched out.
GLC07271.04
1834
[Advertisement for A Narrative of the Captivity & Providential Escape of Mrs. Jane Lewis]
Illustrated publication advertisement for a recently published book about Lewis experience as a captive of Chief Black Hawk during the Black Hawk War. Published in the aftermath of the war after Black Hawk was taken as a captive on a tour for the...
GLC07390
16 February 1857
Rock, John S. (John Sweat) (1825-1866)
[Advertisement for antislavery lecture]
Letterpress broadside/flyer for an antislavery lecture by Dr. John Sweat Rock. Includes a short note in which Dr. Rock asks David P. Harmon if his lecture on "The Unity of the Races" would be well received in Harmon's town.
GLC06143.15
1 July 1852
Smith, W. L. G. (William L. G.) (1814-1878)
[Advertisement for the book Life at the South, or "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as it is!]
Advertisement for Smith's book by Franklin Whipple. Initialled postscript indicates that Whipple is ready to fill orders. The book was written by W. L. G. Smith. Displays the book's table of contents. Notes the book contains 500 pages with ten...
GLC06464
1864 circa
[Aetna United States Mail Secret Protectors]
Cryptic document docketed with the initials of Aetna United States Mail Secret Protectors, described as a "banded organization." States, "This paper, being an exposure of the designs of rebel refugees from the South, banded for plunder and murder in...
GLC06452.05.06
10 April -10 May 1738
Rutherford, Robert (fl. 1738)
[Affadavit]
Report regarding Samuel Waldo's difficult relations with the Iroquois Indians living near the lands he recently purchased in the Penobscot region. Says Captain John Gyles, commander of the Block House at St. George "insensed them by telling them, if...
GLC02437.08877
19 May 1795
[Agreement with James Swan for land sale, with later endorsements]
Agreement granting 25,000 acres in the Waldo patent from Henry Knox to James Swan, also giving Knox the right to buy the land back at a fixed price. Signed twice by Knox with his initials. Later endorsement at bottom of second page, dated 7...
GLC02437.09255
circa 1785-1786
[Agreement]
An agreement between Stephen Sayre, a Lady Anne Poellnitz and Henry Knox concerning Knox renting a house from Poellnitz.
GLC02437.09961
5 August 1757
[Agreement] [incomplete]
Agreement between Samuel Waldo and the firm Mess. Kilby & Barnard, relating to a sum of £535, 11 shillings, 6 p.
GLC02437.08990
1860/11/28
Moore, Andrew Barry (1807-1873)
[Alabama's first official action to secede due to election of Lincoln]
Refers to "the Election of Abraham Lincoln, a Black Republican."
GLC02267
circa 1865
[Albumen of a military commission]
Photograph enclosed in a letter from Lew Wallace to A. E. Allen. The letter (GLC07740.01) identifies the individuals in the portrait as (from left to right) General Thomas M. Harris, General David O. Hunter, General Augustine V. Kautz, Brevet...
GLC07740.02
May 1865
[Albumen of Ada M. Tucker and his staff]
Oval photograph of Union officer (probably Ada M. Tucker) surrounded by his staff in Louisville, Ky. White mount with pencil inscription "15" on verso.
GLC07642.12
April 1865 ca.
[Albumen of asassination sympathizers]
Image of seventeen men lined up outdoors, ten of with are carrying placards around their necks that read "assassin sympathizer." The ten men are in the custody of armed soldiers. The photograph is mounted on a sheet of construction paper.
GLC07737
27 April 1865
Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882)
[Albumen of Edward Spangler]
Inscribed on verso: "Edward Spangler. Conspirator." Photograph shows Spangler in wrist irons imprisoned aboard the U.S.S. Saugus. Spangler is wearing a dark heavy coat and is facing slighlty to the right. The photograph is mounted on board.
GLC07738.04
circa April 1865
[Albumen of John Howard's livery & sale stables]
Inscribed on verso: "the livery stable from which the horse was hired that Booth ran away after shooting President Lincoln April 14, 1865." Also includes #7767 and a stamp for Kemp, Photographers, 137 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J. The photograph is...
GLC07736
[Albumen of Michael O'Laughlin]
Inscribed on verso: "Michael O'Laughlin." Shows O'Laughlin in wrist irons, wearing a jacket, vest, and tie. He is facing slightly to the left and is imprisoned aboard the U.S.S. Saugus. The photograph is mounted on board.
GLC07738.08
[Albumen of Samuel Arnold]
Inscribed on verso: "Samuel Arnold. Conspirator. Imprisoned for life at Ft. Jefferson Fla. (Dry Tortuges) Pardoned by President Johnson. Released March 21, 1869." Photograph shows Arnold wearing a dark coat, vest, and tie; facing slightly to the...
GLC07738.02
1898 ca.
Scribners Magazine
[Albumen of Theodore Roosevelt and a reporter]
Roosevelt converses with Bonsal in front of camp in Tampa, Fla. A third unidentified man stands between them in the background. Caption "Roosevelt, Theodore" in red ink on front .
GLC07002.08
no date
[Albumen of Ulysses S. Grant]
White mount with gold edges. Vignette bust portrait of Grant in civilian dress. Retouching visible on hair, beard, and clothing.
GLC07808.042
12 April 1776
Drury, Jotham (1741-1831)
[An abstract of money paid by Captain Jotham Drury in Colonel Henry Knox's Regiment of Artillery for the month of January 1776]
Lists amounts owed to fifty-five enlisted men in Knox's regiment and underneath Colonel William Burbeck's command.
GLC02437.00272
18 September 1823
North, William (1755-1836)
[An account of the execution of Major John Andre]
Details the execution of Major John Andre, accused of being a spy, and expresses his sympathetic feelings toward Andre's unfortunate fate. Describes how Baron Von Steuben could not comply with Andre's wish to suffer a soldier's death by being shot...
GLC02541.02
circa 1790
[An inventory of Thomas Flucker's estate]
"1790" is written at the top of page one and struck. Mentions General Samuel Waldo's Muscongus Patent, a patent granting Waldo trade with Native Americans in present-day Maine. Flucker, who was married to Waldo's daughter Hannah, was granted 2/5 of...
GLC02437.09454
circa 1864
Hersey, William (fl. 1865)
[Andersonville biscuit with accompanying tin]
Atop the metal tin, which held the biscuit, is a descriptive tag: "Brought From the Rebel Prison at Andersonville, Ga. by William Hersey of the 35th Regiment M.V.M. [Massachusetts Volunteer Militia] March 1865. Presented by G. N. Patten March 21 -...
GLC07271.09
circa 1830-1910
Ward, John Quincy Adams (1830-1910)
[Angel offering peace between a victorious warrior and defeated warrior]
Graphite, wove paper.
GLC06343.094
Gillespie, Elizabeth Duane (1821-1901)
[Announcement for the Central Fair Letter Boxes]
Gillespie, postmistress for the Central Fair, directs Fair participants to "Letter-Boxes, as a great convenience to all desiring to correspond with visitors to the Fair; as well as for letters to be delivered throughout the City, or at the Post...
GLC04637
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