Manuscripts

Payroll for Israel Putnam's company in the 4th Connecticut Regiment

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1760 February 12.
Call number: mssHM 8178
Creator: Putnam, Israel (1718-1790)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Grove sale #362, 1917?.
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Israel Putnam letter to Captain Proctor

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mssHM 20994

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A sketch of General Israel Putnam

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78806

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Israel Mitchell manuscripts

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Four of these five manuscripts were written by Israel Mitchell. These include a speech about agriculture, a manuscript on religion, science and astronomy and two items about slavery. Of the latter two items, the first is a poem written circa 1860 against the institution of slavery, which mentions the abolitionist John Brown. The other is a handwritten copy of a speech Mitchell gave before the Oregon legislature in 1857 regarding both slavery and the Oregon constitution; Mitchell is arguing that Oregon should enter the United States as a free state. He also talks about abolitionists and the United States constitution. The fifth item is a group of notes on Mitchell family genealogy (with mention of Mitchell's grand-uncle Daniel Boone).

mssHM 70712-70716

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The Putnam guards of Danvers, Mass. : Story of the company in the early war time of 1861

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49228

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Elizabeth Whitney Putnam letter to J.D. Whitney, Sr

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Typescript of a letter from Elizabeth Whitney Putnam to her father J.D. Whitney, Sr., written shortly after the arrival of Elizabeth and her daughter Katharine in San Francisco. In the letter Elizabeth describes the difficulties of ocean travel, her voyage from the east coast to Panama on board the Georgia, her experiences crossing the Isthmus of Panama on foot and riding mules, a detailed firsthand account of the wreck of the Tennessee in the Pacific Ocean, and her final arrival in San Francisco aboard the Goliath, which also hit rocks off the California coast.

mssHM 73686

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Martha Ellen Read Putnam diary

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Putnam begins the diary with her memories of her childhood and early life in Georgia and Arkansas. The daily entries begin in 1881, a few years after Putnam and her family moved to Pinal County, Arizona. Although the family owned a ranch and several mines, they were often in debt and moved back and forth between their ranch outside of Tucson, and the city of Tucson itself. While in Arizona, Putnam discusses in detail her personal and daily activities and the hardships she faced as the lone white woman in the area, as well as her contact with the Indians of the San Carlos Indian Reservation, including the Chiricahua, the Pima, and the Western Apaches. She mentions her fear of Indian raiding parties being lead by Chief Eskimizin. After the death of her husband in 1888, the family moved to Beaumont, California where her oldest son found a job with a railroad company. Putnam continued to travel to Tucson several times a year and finally moved to Los Angeles in 1894 where she was living when the diary ended in 1904

mssHM 64597

Payroll for Israel Putnam's company in the 4th Connecticut Regiment

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