Depositions--Delaware; Slavery--Delaware; Fugitive slaves--Delaware; Fugitive slaves--New York (State)--New York
One-page deposition of Richard Colgate of Kent County, Delaware, regarding his runaway slave James Winham. Includes detailed description and account of Winham's escape to New York, where he "inlisted [sic] in his Majesties Service in Capt. Langdons...
Postal data: posted, postmarked [wavy postmark with letters I and T] (SYRACUSE, N.Y., JUL 15, 1908- [indiscernible] PM), stamp; Postcard type: divided back (CORRESPONDENCE; NAME AND ADDRESS); Logo (POST CARD) in stylized lettering; Written message:...
Goats; Stores, Retail; Animals; Clothing and dress; Dry-goods; Household linens; United States--New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn
Illustration of two young goats butting heads while adult goat watches in background. Verso side: text, "Porter & Thorburn, dry goods, mourning goods, hosiery, black silks, linens, laces, embroideries, gloves."
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
Coffin, John,1756-1838; Campbell, George, 1736-1799; Perkins, Sergeant; Atwood, Isaac, Captain; Livingston, John William, Captain; Chapman, Thomas, Captain; Campbell, Dougall, Lieutenant; Great Britain. Army; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry --...
Drafts of Major John Coffins statements in reply to the defense of Lieutenant-Colonel George Campbell at Campbells court martial. The first draft (eleven pages, numbered as 5, [1] leaves) is addressed to ""Mr. President & Gentlemen of the Board,""...
Air warfare; Bombardment; Leaves; Communists; Tobacco;
Syd mentions having received another pair of letters from Marjorie. He says that the leaf she enclosed (not included) caused several arguments over which kind of tobacco is was. Syd says that when he got to the part of her letter that explained...
