![Item #10358 [Manuscript certificate of status as a free woman for Hannah Reed.]. William Brent](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10358_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1787948803)
A manuscript pass and certificate issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia to Hannah Reed, a free “mulatto woman” of Washington, D.C., describing some of her distinct physical features for purposes of identification. Certificates of this sort, both manuscript and partially printed, had long.....
[with manuscript order on verso:] Johnson, Colonel Obadiah. To Capt. Joseph Raynsford. In consequence of orders from Genl. Douglas you are directed to inlist or peremptorily to detach from your company for the time & service mentioned in the within resolve…two private able bodied effective men… Canterbury, Connecticut, 26 June.....
A fascinating document recording the sale of whiskey to the Wyandotte, bearing the name of Christopher Miller, who was captured by Native Americans as a child and lived among them for many years, then rejoined the white community and fought in the Northwest Indian War. This document reads in full.....
An especially appealing military commission, signed by Abraham Lincoln, promoting Guido Norman Lieber to the rank of captain just two months after his father’s groundbreaking codification of the laws of war were issued as General Orders to the Union Army. Guido Norman Lieber was the son of Matilda Oppenheimer and.....
A fascinating document issued by an army captain serving in the Northwest Territory who attempts here to procure a soldier’s back-rations after the formerly-captured soldier was released by Native Americans in a prisoner exchange. One “A. Prior” certifies here that one of his former soldiers, Thomas Stephenson, was a prisoner.....
![Item #7341 [Pledge not to provide alcohol to slaves or free people of color.]. Thomas Scott](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7341_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1663357120)
Tavern owner Thomas Scott’s formal pledge not to “barter, give away, sell or furnish, to any slave or slaves, any measure or quantity of distilled or spiritous or intoxicating liquors without the verbal or written consent of the owners or employees of such slave or slaves, or without the like.....
![Item #10059 [Maunscript runaway slave advertisement.]. Gideon Treat](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10059_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1788184742)
A striking eighteenth-century runaway slave advertisement in manuscript seeking the recovery of a young enslaved man, composed by one Gideon Treat of New Milford, Connecticut. Treat’s text reads in full: Advertisement Septr. 14. 1772. Run away from Gideon Treat of New Milford in Litchfield County a Negroman Named James of.....
![Item #8669 Sales of Twenty three planks Mahogany rec’d of the Unity[,] Robert Norris Master...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8669.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718808879)
A manuscript receipt documenting Benedict Arnold’s activity as a lumber merchant just a few years before the American Revolution. This document records the sale of twenty-three planks of mahogany wood (comprising 2,284 feet) from Jamaica, which were received in Liverpool on August 2nd, 1771. The wood was transported by the.....
![Item #10058 Advertisement [Manuscript runaway servant notice]. Owen Winnfield?](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10058_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1788116545)
An uncommonly early manuscript runaway notice describing a “servant” who escaped from his owner in Augusta County, Virginia, just to the west of Charlottesville, circa 1751. This handwritten advertisement announces the escape of a man named Nitingale Meeds, as follows:Ran away from the subscriber in Augusta County the 23d Day.....