Scope and Contents From the Collection:

An artificial collection of papers created from material acquired during the 1930's and 1940's.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

An artificial collection of papers created from material acquired during the 1930's and 1940's.

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General Agent H.L. Kenney of Washington City to Reuben H. Grant in Mississippi giving him authorization to raise a regiment of 300 men for the service of the “Central American Republic.” Gives description of his job as General Agent of the Central American Republic and tells how each man shall be paid with land. December 21, 1854.

Scope and Contents Pay Account for Ensign C.W. Bowie. Civil War. 1865. Bond for Benjamin Beck and Davis Tinsley and others of Milledgeville, Georgia to Governor Jos. E. Brown. List of items procured. April 1861. Pass for James Bonner of Milledgeville, Georgia to purchase lead. Signed by D. Mitchell, Governor of Georgia, with the state seal. October 6, 1813. Command order given to Samuel Walker as Captain of the Bladwin Blues as of May 29, 1888. Signed by Governor John B. Gordon, Governor of Georgia, with the...

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Official Oath of D. Bard Rack as Constable for Whiteside County, Illinois. April 14. No Year. Annual Account of the Highway Commissioners, Sterling, Illinois. March 1865. Receipts and oaths from Sterling, Illinois. 1861, 1864 and 1865.

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Program for the Teatro Scalo, Terzo Gran Concerto. May 10, 1896. An Italian lire, dated 1884.

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Typed carbon copy of Volume I, “Brides and Parents of Early Kentucky and Their Marriage Date with name of Groom” compiled by Annie Walker Burns Bell of Washington, D.C. 1935. A - Bell of bride’s surnames.

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Typed carbon copy of “Anne Arundel County, Maryland, General Index to Inventories of Deceased Persons, 1777 to 1893” compiled by Annie Walker Burns of Washington, D.C. October 5, 1850 Maryland Tract Society report.

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Article, “The Conquest is Complete,” from the News and Courier, South Carolina. December 27, 1893.

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Surveyors List of Surveyors elected by U.S. Congress, one from each state, “in conformity to the ‘Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of lands in the Western Territory’.” Signed by Charles Thompson, Secretary of Congress. May 27, 1785. United States Treasury Office Copy of a letter from John Skelton Williams, Comptroller of Currency, to Honorable William E. Cox, Congressman from Indiana, about criticisms. Washington, D.C. October 17, 1916.

Scope and Contents Coat of Arms: 6” x 8” page with a printed Coat of Arms and “Virginia Council Chamber” printed on the bottom. 5 copies. Undated. Coat of Arms and Great Seal: A pamphlet, “The Great Seal of Virginia” submitted to the General Assembly on February 20, 1930. Letter to Dr. Earl Gregg Swem and a letter to Dr. John E. Pomfret, President of the College of William and Mary, from E.M. Simon who designed a pre-revolutionary Coat of Arms and Seal for Colonial Williamsburg, found on the title page of the...