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Official petition of Shawanoe and Delaware Indian Chiefs to the President of the United States

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Description: Official petition by the Shawnee and Delaware Indians to President James Monroe regarding their land and rights. It is signed by several native indivduals. There is also a letter by Pierre Menard, President of the Illinois Territorial Council, to William Clark, American explorer and Governor of Missouri Territory, dated 1818, January 6, about the petition. The volume includes typed transcriptions of the letter and petition.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1818.
Call number: mssHM 570-571
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of July 1950.
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People of California petition to President Franklin Pierce

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a petition addressed to United States President Franklin Pierce, from the "Citizens of the Northern District of the State of California," calling for the removal from office of J. Y. Mcduffie, Marshal of the Northern District, on account of his being "a professional gambler in this State, and that his appointment to office is exceedingly obnoxious to the moral sense of the People of this District." Printed form, with fifty-two hand-written signatures.

mssHM 2058

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Orderly Book of the Eastern Department of the United States Army

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Orders, special orders and circulars received by Eastern Department from the War Department, Army Headquarters, Office of Adjutant General, Ordnance Department, Pay Department, and Office of the Adjutant General of Eastern territorial Department from June 1, 1821 through July 1828

mssHM 58077

By the president of the United States of America. Suffer the

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Image of a lighthouse on a rocky promontory with ships sailing nearby and image of a ship at sea at the top of a blank letter of safe conduct certificate granting the ship the ability to pass without "hindrance, seizure, or molestation;" embossed United States seal at bottom left; signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison.

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Joseph Goldsborough Bruff letter to the "President of the United States" with a poem "To the promoters of disunion,"

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In this letter to the "President of the United States With the Compliments of His very Humble and Obdt. Servant J. Goldsborough Bruff," is a 28-line poem entitled "To the Promoters of Disunion. E. Pluribus Unum. One and inseparable; United we stand, but divided we fall." There is also a 16-line "Invocation" and a sketch by Bruff of a man with a cannon. It is written on a pictorial lettersheet with an image of Washington, D.C. entitled "View of Washington City." The poem is dated 1860, December 10 while a note about the sketch is dated 1860, December 17.

mssHM 72872

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John Adams notification of Thomas Jefferson's election as vice president of the United States :

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Copy of certification by the House of Representatives and Senate of the election of Thomas Jefferson as vice president of the United States, signed by Adams. Attested "true copy" by the chief clerk of the Department of State, George Taylor.

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Presidents of the United States

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Image of the goddess Columbia wearing a draped American flag with staff in hand flanked by bald eagle and Union shield with a steam ship and the United States Capitol building in background; ornate frame made up of portraits of the presidents of the United States from 1789-1861: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William H. Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln; key with last names and dates in office for each president at bottom center.

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Official petition of Shawanoe and Delaware Indian Chiefs to the President of the United States

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