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17,141 letters[February 17, 1757] In Obedience to the Order of the House, we have considered his Honour’s Message of Yesterday, refusing the Bill for granting One Hundred Thousand Pounds to His…
[February 9, 1757] May it please your Honour , By our late Law, extending several Sections of the Act of Parliament, intituled, “An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and…
SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO, November 12, 1862. No. 111. } Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12, 1862. * * * * * * * VII. The quartermasterâs department…
[February 1, 1757] 6 Sir It is long since I had any of your Favours. I should now have wrote you a long Letter, but that the House have desired…
[Extracts.] Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward No. 940.] Legation of the United States, London, April 28, 1865. Sir: I have the honor to transmit an address to the President, and…
Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward No. 934.] Legation of the United States, London, April 27, 1865. Sir: I have to acknowledge the reception from the department of despatches numbered 1338…
Feb. 1. 1757. Sir I receiv’d your several Favours of August 14. Sept. 18 Sept. 22. and Oct. 16. 5 By this Ship you will receive a Box containing sundry…
Cincinnati, Ohio, November 7, 1862. Brig. Gen. J. T. BOYLE, Lowisville, Ky.: The War Department disapproves the occupation, for hospital purposes, of the Asylum for the Blind at Louisville, while…
Jany. 31. 1757 Dear Sir, The above is a Copy of my last 5 I have now before me your Favour of Sept. 11 6 I shall not fail on…
Philada. Jan. 31. 1757 Dear Sir The preceding are Copies of my late Letters; 8 to which I have little to add, except to request you would send the Magazines…
Cincinnati, Ohio, November 22, 1862. Brig. Gen. G. W. CULLUM, Chief of Staff, Hdgrs. of the Army, Washington, D. O.: GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of…
Mr. Welles to Mr. Seward Navy Department, Washington, April 12, 1865. Sir: The United States steamer San Jacinto, under the command of Captain R. W. Meade, having been recently wrecked…
Mr. Hunter to Mr. Adams No. 1378] Department of State,Washington, April 24, 1865. Sir: Your despatch of the 5th instant, No. 915, together with its accompanying copy of a telegram,…
[January 28, 1757] Resolved, N.C.D . That a Commissioner, or Commissioners, be appointed to go Home to England, in Behalf of the People of this Province, to solicit a Removal…
Louisville, Ky., November 1, 1862. GENERAL: General Orders, No. 49, Headquarters Army of the Ohio, are modified in the following particulars: 1st. Recruits from the rebel army who have delivered…
Mr. Hunter to Mr. Adams Department of State, Washington, April 24, 1865. My Dear Sir: You will be naturally solicitous to know what has been the result thus far of…
[January 26, 1757] May it please your Honour , The Representatives of the Freemen of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, do hereby humbly remonstrate to your Honour, That the Proprietaries…
October 30, 1862. ; Louisville, October 30, 1862. Brig. Gen. J. T. BOYLE, Commanding, &c.: Sim: Paragraph I, of General Orders, No. 49, October 26, was made general in terms…
Philada. Jany. 25th 1757. Sir: The ammunition and other Things applied for by Captain Calender, 1 and allowed by the Commissioners, are sent up some time since, except three Drums…
Jan. 24. 1757. 3 Sir I trouble You with this [to inform you of?] the Death of a worthy Clergyman the [Reverend Henry?] Wheatley, 4 Lecturer of St. Leonard Shoreditch,…