Lot of 26 items. Including: Small note, 3.5 x 9.25 in., manuscript: Head Quarters Greeneville 21st Feby. 1795 - Issue for the Wyandote Indians twenty eight Rations of flour & meat - Wm H. Harrison / ADC. With "Contractors" lower left. Manuscript note, 4.75 x 8.5 in., Baltimore, 7 Aug. 1775, pass for Walter Bartlett, to collect "cotton cards for his industrious neighbors," secretarially signed by Richard Henry Lee. Apparently, the colonies produced just enough textiles to (barely) meet their own needs, and ordered the tools, such as cards for preparation of the fibers for spinning, and cloth from Britain. So several colonies such as North Carolina, offered a bounty to produce them here - so Wool Cards, which could be purchased for 1s3d from Great Britain, the Committee of Safety would purchase for 2s, and Cotton Cards, which cost 2s6d from abroad, would be purchased by the colony for 3s. They also offered a premium for locally produced steel, etc. Presumably other colonies came up with similar plans to encourage local manufacturing, and ultimately to "wean" the colonies from the motherland. Manchester, 12 March 1841 to Messrs. Frankaus in London with order for barometers. The company marked the letter as received 18 Apr. 1841, and items shipped 1 May. Plus numerous other receipts: one Camden and Amboy Railroad for a barrel of oil from New York, 3 Feb. 1852. A note concerning payment on a bond, dated 17 Nov. 1795, signed Andrew Galbraith. A second note concerning payment of a note, Parkersburg, 3 Apr. 1851, signed D. Chevalier. Indenture for the sale of land to Abel and Nancy Pickering, 1829, for $120. Receipt from Cumming & Van Duzer, Druggist, "Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Fine Chemicals, Shakers Herbs, English and American Extracts, &c. &c.", 1853, with nice lithographed image of storefront. Receipt from Clarke & White for delivery of Congress Water from Congress Springs, Saratoga Springs, NY with nice lithograph in upper left corner. Indenture for Yost and Henry Leinor of York Co., PA, to John Boyd for 120 Pounds, 11 Apr. 1794, 60 pounds to be paid 1 May 1798, and second indenture for the other 60 pounds to be paid 1 May 1800. Court document, May 1775, Charles Pearce suing Marcous Powell for 123 pounds oweddd for "Taylors work and goods sold " in 1772, in colonial court. Mnuscript document in German, with consulate stamp. Letter to Miss Mills Wilson from Bird & Brothers, 17 March 1835, concerning disposition of a check sent to her. Document giving power of atttorney to Christopher Harrison for Solomon and Polly Hoge, Washington Co., IN, 19 Oct. 1824. Sale of land to Henry Kluckhohn from Friederick and Dinah Rieker(?), Lake County, IN, 11 Dec. 1862. Document dated 24 June 1840, to B. Bales, Esq. from Col. R.M. Johnson stating that he will do all he can "for the son of our friend." Letter from Jay Gould, Roxbury Delware Co., NY, 29 December 1855. Letter to Bowen Shitman and Winslow (lawyers?) on stationery of Studebaker Bros. Manufacturing Co., "Manufacturers of Carriages, Buggies, Sleighs, Express, Farm and Spring Wagons;." 18 Aug. 1869. with newsprint image of 2 men on high-wheeled bicycles taped to lower corner. Letter from Lovell Edgeworth, Verdun, 20 Oct. 1803, to Monsieur Perrigans, Paris, about a sum of money. Letter G.W. Blackmon to Wm. Wright, Esq., Logansport, 2 Aug. 1839. Plus check written on Crown Point, IN bank, 17 March 1880 and 4 empty envelopes, one with American Express Company stamps affixed to it. Condition: Most at one time or another were taped to something (likely a scrapbook page).
Lot of 26 items. Including: Small note, 3.5 x 9.25 in., manuscript: Head Quarters Greeneville 21st Feby. 1795 - Issue for the Wyandote Indians twenty eight Rations of flour & meat - Wm H. Harrison / ADC. With "Contractors" lower left. Manuscript note, 4.75 x 8.5 in., Baltimore, 7 Aug. 1775, pass for Walter Bartlett, to collect "cotton cards for his industrious neighbors," secretarially signed by Richard Henry Lee. Apparently, the colonies produced just enough textiles to (barely) meet their own needs, and ordered the tools, such as cards for preparation of the fibers for spinning, and cloth from Britain. So several colonies such as North Carolina, offered a bounty to produce them here - so Wool Cards, which could be purchased for 1s3d from Great Britain, the Committee of Safety would purchase for 2s, and Cotton Cards, which cost 2s6d from abroad, would be purchased by the colony for 3s. They also offered a premium for locally produced steel, etc. Presumably other colonies came up with similar plans to encourage local manufacturing, and ultimately to "wean" the colonies from the motherland. Manchester, 12 March 1841 to Messrs. Frankaus in London with order for barometers. The company marked the letter as received 18 Apr. 1841, and items shipped 1 May. Plus numerous other receipts: one Camden and Amboy Railroad for a barrel of oil from New York, 3 Feb. 1852. A note concerning payment on a bond, dated 17 Nov. 1795, signed Andrew Galbraith. A second note concerning payment of a note, Parkersburg, 3 Apr. 1851, signed D. Chevalier. Indenture for the sale of land to Abel and Nancy Pickering, 1829, for $120. Receipt from Cumming & Van Duzer, Druggist, "Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Fine Chemicals, Shakers Herbs, English and American Extracts, &c. &c.", 1853, with nice lithographed image of storefront. Receipt from Clarke & White for delivery of Congress Water from Congress Springs, Saratoga Springs, NY with nice lithograph in upper left corner. Indenture for Yost and Henry Leinor of York Co., PA, to John Boyd for 120 Pounds, 11 Apr. 1794, 60 pounds to be paid 1 May 1798, and second indenture for the other 60 pounds to be paid 1 May 1800. Court document, May 1775, Charles Pearce suing Marcous Powell for 123 pounds oweddd for "Taylors work and goods sold " in 1772, in colonial court. Mnuscript document in German, with consulate stamp. Letter to Miss Mills Wilson from Bird & Brothers, 17 March 1835, concerning disposition of a check sent to her. Document giving power of atttorney to Christopher Harrison for Solomon and Polly Hoge, Washington Co., IN, 19 Oct. 1824. Sale of land to Henry Kluckhohn from Friederick and Dinah Rieker(?), Lake County, IN, 11 Dec. 1862. Document dated 24 June 1840, to B. Bales, Esq. from Col. R.M. Johnson stating that he will do all he can "for the son of our friend." Letter from Jay Gould, Roxbury Delware Co., NY, 29 December 1855. Letter to Bowen Shitman and Winslow (lawyers?) on stationery of Studebaker Bros. Manufacturing Co., "Manufacturers of Carriages, Buggies, Sleighs, Express, Farm and Spring Wagons;." 18 Aug. 1869. with newsprint image of 2 men on high-wheeled bicycles taped to lower corner. Letter from Lovell Edgeworth, Verdun, 20 Oct. 1803, to Monsieur Perrigans, Paris, about a sum of money. Letter G.W. Blackmon to Wm. Wright, Esq., Logansport, 2 Aug. 1839. Plus check written on Crown Point, IN bank, 17 March 1880 and 4 empty envelopes, one with American Express Company stamps affixed to it. Condition: Most at one time or another were taped to something (likely a scrapbook page).
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