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Freedom of the city certificate given to William Frederick McDaniels

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Description: An engraved parchment form, filled in; this certificate given to "William Frederick McDaniel [sic], son of John, & late app of Jas Jaumard LeCren...and sworn in the Mayoralty of John Humphrey Esq..." Also: the original cylindrical wooden storage box made to hold the certificate.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1843, January 3.
Call number: mssHM 82949
Creator: City of London (England)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of David Cressy, August 2016. William Frederick McDaniels (free of the City, 1843) had a son William McDaniels, born about 1840, who married Anne Bromley. Anne's younger sister Elizabeth Bromley married Robert James Cressy (1842-1900) in 1867. Their children included William Henry Cressy (1874-1961), born in Woburn Court, Bloomsbury, London. When Elizabeth (nee Bromley) Cressy died about 1880, her children were sent to live at Walthamstow with their aunt and uncle, Anne (nee Bromley) and William McDaniels. The freedom certificate appears to have passed into the Cressy family in the late 19th century. David Cressy is the grandson of William Henry Cressy.

Certificate of record

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A collection of American Civil War correspondence between John A. Gilmore, his parents, and his siblings. Also included is a "Certificate of Record" of John A. Gilmore issued by the Soldiers' and Sailors' Historical and Benevolent Society (1906).

mssHM 58021-58066

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Biography and certificates for Alonzo Orson Perry

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Collection of items related to Alonzo Orson Perry and Mormon history. Includes a biography of Perry by Almeda Perry Brown, a family history of his wife Ann Janette Stowell Perry (1849-1912), a mission certificate signed by Brigham Young (1876), a certificate of his residence at Mill Ward in the Uintah Stake (1899), a copy of a certificate of his ordination as high priest (1907), Also includes a printed pamphlet of a revelation given through John Taylor relating to George Teasdale and Heber J. Grant and copies of two photographs of Egyptian papyrus reputed to be Joseph Smith's Book of Abraham.

mssHM 74300-74306

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Noah Webster signed certificate of a share in Union School House owned by John Miles

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Certificate, signed by Noah Webster, stating that John Miles owned one share of the property and interest in Union School House, New Haven, Connecticut, 1802 January 20. There is also one engraving of Noah Webster and two photographs of Adella Pepper Webster, one of her as a young girl, and one of her as an older woman.

mssHM 84490

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The conference / Instructions Given to Sir Robert Ladbroke, Knt, William Beckford, Esq; the Right Hon Thomas Harley, Esq; and Barlow Trecothick, Esq; representatives of the city of London: by their Constituents [BM 4269]

Rare Books

This volume contains 146 British satirical prints, dating from 1760-1790, which are either etched or engraved and pasted onto pages in general chronological order. Many of the prints are annotated with handwritten identifications, descriptions, dates, and reference numbers from the British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires (BM numbers) in an unidentified hand. Ten of the prints have hand coloring (see pp. 16, 49, 57, 61, 67, 69, 76, 84, 110, and 116). The prints reflect a variety of political topics including the influence of Lord Bute (John Stuart); the 1763 Peace of Paris at the end of the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War); the American Stamp Act; the 1783 Fox-North Coalition; the 1784 Westminster election; and the Warren Hastings trial. Some of the depicted individuals include King George III; Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland; Princess Augusta; Charles James Fox; Warren Hastings; William Murray, Earl of Mansfield; Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Fletcher Norton; William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham; John Russell, Duke of Bedford; John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute; John Wilkes; and Cecil Wray. Many artists, engravers, and printers are represented including artists Thomas Rowlandson and William Hogarth and publishers E. Darchery, S. W. Fores, H. Humphrey, and W. Humphrey. One print, "A Foreign Tree" (page 116), is dated as 1789, but appears to be from 1793-4 during the French "Reign of Terror." There are also two pages containing handwritten descriptions of events (pp. 8a, 87).

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William J. McDermott essay: "New York City Medical University"

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Miscellaneous papers, chiefly official documents and correspondence related to McDermott's career, particularly his military service. Included are orders, appointments, commissions, reports, requests and bills for medical supplies, and correspondence. The papers contain a report on the examination and treatment of those wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness, and a letter to his father describing the aftermath of the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Siege of Petersburg. There are also McDermott's credentials, his Masonic diplomas and correspondence, passports, certificates, and other documents. Also included are poems and an essay on the history of the City University of New York, written by McDermott, as well as, scattered family records, some daguerreotype portraits, an 1873 notebook containing formulas for medicines kept by Dr. John B. Crosby, and a petition signed by "Her Majesty's Protestant subjects" of St. John, New Brunswick, about a ban on secret societies, which was allegedly sought by "Roman Catholics" in order to "prevent Protestants meeting together to hold loyal associations," dated 1844.

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Baptism certificate of Everett Loftus Saxondale Kenna. [Undated]. Glossary of mining terms

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The collection was assembled by author and collector Grahame H. Hardy. The documents and manuscripts demonstrate the range of legal, administrative, municipal, and real estate-related transactions initiated by railroad and mining interests, businessmen, and municipalities in the San Francisco Bay area, Northern California, and western Nevada. Included in this series are legal proceedings, title deeds, mining reports and claims. Correspondence includes business and personal letters to and from Northern California lawyers, railroad and mining entrepreneurs in California and Nevada, and parties involved in the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. Included in this series are letters pertaining to the case of Daniel Sill, a San Francisco-based blacksmith and the trial of A.J. Jackson, an African American tried and acquitted in Marysville, California. Lastly, ephemera include four items: a Mission Homestead Association certificate of stock; one check payable to Jack H. Haverly, a promoter of minstrel shows, from theater producers and brothers, Gustave Frohman and Charles Frohman; the baptism certificate of Everett Loftus Saxondale Kenna; and an undated glossary of mining terms. Prominent persons and organizations featured in the collection include: California Academy of Sciences, founded in 1853 as the one of the first scientific academies west of the Atlantic seaboard; Central Pacific Railroad Company, established in 1861 and financed in part by Leland Stanford and Collis P. Huntington, who are also mentioned in the collection; William Heath Davis (1822-1909), San Francisco merchant and author, spouse of Maria de Jesús Estudillo, who played a key role in the founding of the California cities of Oakland and San Diego; John Brooks Felton (1827-1877), San Francisco Bay Area lawyer and judge, as well as one-time mayor of Oakland, California; Joseph Pendleton Hoge (1810-1891), former U.S. Representative of Illinois and later lawyer and judge of the San Francisco Superior Court; and M.G. Upton, former official reporter of the California Assembly and author of the urban planning critique, "The Plan of San Francisco" (1869).

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Freedom of the city certificate given to William Frederick McDaniels

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