An unusual indenture binding a young German immigrant woman to the chief warden of the New Orleans city jail, where she was employed for her “understanding of the household business.” This remarkable indenture specifies the financial arrangement and terms of employment for one Annah David of Anspach, Germany—aged twenty-three and.....
An official printing of an 1845 treaty, concluded and ratified under President James K. Polk, relating to the Creek lands in Florida, rectifying a treaty of 1833 which grouped the Creeks and Seminoles together and misled the Creeks with regard to the lands they would be given. The result was...
Johnson’s proclamation lifting the blockade against foreign trade at U.S. ports—with the exception of ports in Texas, issued a month after the end of the Civil War. Opening with a reference to President Lincoln’s proclamation closing certain U.S. ports to foreign commerce, Johnson explains that events have since occurred which.....