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Accounts kept by Duncan Richmond between 1757-1758; there are six clearance notes in the hand of Earl of Loudoun. Also included are 32 receipts and accounts, mostly for feed and repairs, and the the account with Richmond (1758, Nov. 20), and Samuel Sackett (1758, July 22).
mssHM 444
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The Cyane was launched in 1837 and served in the Pacific from November 1841 to October 1844, sailing again for the Pacific in August 1845 and serving in that theatre during the Mexican-American War. On July 7, 1846, her commanding officer, Captain William Mervine, led a detachment of Marines and sailors from Commodore John D. Sloat's squadron ashore at Monterey, California, hoisting the American flag at the Customs House and claiming possession of the city and all of present day California.
mssHM 80804
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Grant is sending instructions for the 2nd Calvary Division and reporting news from Colonel George H. Sharp in Richmond regarding Confederate General Jubal Early and the possibilites of an attack by General Robert E. Lee. Grant states that the present policy is to ready for an attack.
mssHM 20986
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Brief genealogy and biography of Samuel Dennis White. Gives an overview of his heritage, his journey west, and his activities with the Mormon Church while in Utah.
mssHM 72904
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The letters, most of which were written by George Lawson to his parents back home in Illinois, are about Lawson's experience mining for gold and living in the mining town of Ophir, California; there are several letters written from Sacramento, as Lawson spent some time in that city as well. His letters include details regarding gold discoveries, prices for supplies, the gold specimens he was sending home, and the machinery he was using for gold mining. There are two letters, probably written in 1864 and 1865, by L. L. Thaxter, that describe his experience with the Sanitary Commission, his visits to Civil War hospitals, and his encounters with wounded soldiers. Thaxter also discusses Ulysses S. Grant and the approaching end of the war. There are also two photographs included with the letters
mssHM 63927-63938
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Letter book of George Folsom kept from September 2, 1850 to October 20, 1853, while he was chargé d'affaires of the United States legation in the Netherlands. The letters, written to various American government officials, discuss the preparations for Matthew Perry's expedition to Japan (including the effort to obtain coastal maps of Japan and Walter Henry Medhurst's Japanese dictionary); the case of William A. Seely, a New York lawyer involved in recovering the Dutch crown jewels stolen in 1828; the effort to dislodge a gentleman who claimed to be the consul of the Republic of Texas; and diplomatic implications of the 1848 constitutional reform in the Netherlands.
mssHM 83981