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Legal instrument of protest signed by Alexander H. Arthur, Notary Public for the Office of the Planters’ Bank of the State of Mississippi at Vicksburg..... Read More about United States of America: State of Mississippi, to wit: By This Public Instrument of Protest…
Legal instrument protest signed by John Neilson, Jr., Notary Public, at the request of Messrs. Corning & Co. This latter firm presented a bill of..... Read More about United States of America, State of New York. SS. On the eighth day of May in the year of our Lord...
Legal writ of execution in the case of W.A. Gasquet v. McQueen & Atkins. Judge Charles Bushnell of the District Court of the Parish of..... Read More about The State of Louisiana, To the Sheriff of the Parish of West Feliciana—-Greeting: We Command...
Interesting letter written by vaudeville banjo performer De Alma, outlining biographical facts about his wife Mae from whom he is separated. Writing under his real..... Read More about 1919 ALS by Vaudeville Performer De Alma, “Monarch of the Banjo.”
18th century legal memorandum, unsigned, prepared for one “Mr. Galloway” regarding a dispute over the title to 3000 acres of land purchased from Native Americans..... Read More about 18th Century Legal Memorandum concerning a Disputed “Indian Country” Land Grant in Colonial...
Twelve men attest with their autographs to the worthiness of the character of John Williams. Williams is a “suitable person to keep an Inn and..... Read More about 1811 Autograph Document Signed, Establishing a Tavern in Maurice River, Cumberland County, New...
Saloon-keeper and Texas Justice of the Peace Roy Bean (ca. 1825–1903) —who styled himself “The Law West of the Pecos”— conducted an unconventional, sometimes extra-legal..... Read More about 1901 Autograph Letter Signed by James Bean, Brother of Legendary Judge Roy Bean—“The Law West...
Jurist John Kintzing Kane (1795–1858) was the father of noted Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane. Judge Kane was best known for his pro-slavery decision, ten..... Read More about 1845 Autograph Letter Signed by Jurist John Kintzing Kane, presiding Judge of the Fugitive Slave...
Quotation on law handwritten by German-American Francis Lieber (1798 or 1800–1872), legal and political theorist and author of the Lieber Code on the conduct of..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Quotation Signed on Law by Francis Lieber, German-American Jurist, Author of...
A brief letter from Matthew Hale Smith (1810–1879) writing to a minister who preached a sermon near Malden, Massachusetts in 1842 or 1843 on the..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed by Matthew Hale Smith, Minister, Lawyer, Lecturer, Author, and Journalist
Letter from Philadelphia reformer Roberts Vaux (1786–1836) touching on two concerns: education and temperance. Vaux writes briefly here “to the President, and Members, of the..... Read More about 1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of Education...
The legal footprint of fundamental daily life during 19th to early 20th century America. A 1765–1932 collection of Pennsylvania printed and manuscripts documents: land surveys..... Read More about A “Real” Trove; A Pennsylvania Archive of Legal Documents
Pair of 1845 autograph letters signed by Judge Morris Longstreth (1800–1855) of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Longstreth here writes about his re-nomination as associate judge to..... Read More about Two 1845 Autograph Letters Signed by Judge Morris Longstreth on his Renomination for a...
Three letters, all incoming to Philadelphia attorney J. Whitaker Thompson, United States attorney. The bulk of the material is from Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. (1856–1910)..... Read More about Solicitor General and Acting U.S. Attorney General Henry M. Hoyt Officially Opines on Medical...
Fourth of July address delivered in the immediate aftermath of the Nullification Crisis by Thomas S. Grimké, South Carolina lawyer, education reformer, and peace advocate..... Read More about Oration on the Principal Duties of Americans; Delivered before the Washington Society…on...
Rules are essential for keeping good order in jail. Everyone must know his or her place. The sheriff, the jailer, legal counsel, prisoners. Those in..... Read More about Rules for the Government of the County Jail of Seward County, Nebraska [1888 typescript with...
Cherokee Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting the Information required by a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d instant, in..... Read More about Memorial of the Cherokee Delegation, submitting the Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee People...
About 75 words, an autograph letter signed from Revolutionary War patriot and Boston lawyer Perez Morton (1751–1837) written to Colonel James T.[recothick] Austin (1784–1870). Austin..... Read More about 1832 Autograph Letter Signed from Perez Morton, Revolutionary War patriot and Boston Lawyer, to...
Dating from the first decade of Nebraska statehood, this unrecorded 1876 theatrical broadside from Schuyler, Colfax County engages the reader right from the start: Sidewalks!..... Read More about Sidewalks! Court Week Amusements! ...The Schuyler Dramatic Association ...The Idiot...
Here, Coleman presents Governor David Emanuel with Virginia’s most recently-enacted laws. The letter is docketed, in part, “Exchange of Laws” and reads, in full: Richmond..... Read More about 1801 Autograph Letter Signed from Samuel Coleman, Virginia clerk, to Georgia Governor David...
The private United States Secret Service Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio was the publisher of the American Criminal Gazetteer. The circular, here offered, outlines the Rules..... Read More about United States Secret Service Company. Three 1877 Ephemeral Items for Membership and Rules and...
