Boyd/Wingate Family Archive, 37 items total. 1st item: Handwritten passport on laid paper issued by order of Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd K.B., Governor of Gibraltar, permitting the bearer Nathaniel Culling, Esqr., of the United States of America, "to pa[s]s to Spain (with 12 his servant and baggage) and return to Lisbon, without any hindrance, molestation […]

THE NORTH-AMERICAN'S ALMANACK, AND GENTLEMAN'S AND LADY'S DIARY, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST 1776 by Samuel Stearns (1741-1810), printed by Isaiah Thomas, Worchester, et al. Octavo, self wrappers, 18 double-sided pages. Includes, An Account of the Commencement of Ho(s)tilities between Great Britain and America, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, written by Rev. […]

Handwritten copy of "Monody on Major Andre" by Miss Anna Seward, 1781. Octavo, self wrapper, stitched, 14 double-sided pages. Pamphlet contains the entire poem dedicated to the life and execution of John Andre, along with three other poems titled "Absence", "Song", "To a Candle Elegy", and "A Critical Moment". Also includes footnotes explaining certain allusions […]

Six (6) Marshall and Dearborn family speeches, poems, and essays. 1st item: Booklet titled "Unveiling the Statue of Chief Justice John Marshall, at Washington, May 10th, 1884" with an oration by William Henry Rawle, LL. D., published by Allen, Lane, and Scott's Printing House, Philadelphia, 1884. 10" H x 7 5/8" W. 2nd item: One […]

Twenty-four (24) 19th century commerce documents. 1st-6th item: Six (6) printed and handwritten certifications of importation signed by Benjamin Lincoln, Collector, countersigned by Thomas Melvill, Inspector, from the Port of Boston and Charleston, certifying that "there was imported into this Di[s]trict on the twenty fourth of Oct 1805, by Neh Parsons in the Gov Summer […]

The General Henry Dearborn family Bible. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: with the Apocrypha Translated Out of the Original Tongues, Vol. II & II, by Isaiah Thomas, 1791. Printed at the press in Worcester, Massachusetts. Both volumes include handwritten list of birth and death dates for members of the immediate Dearborn […]

Archive of letters related to General Henry Dearborn and his family, including Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn, his second wife; 13 items total. 1st item: War of 1812 Period ALS, one page, from Major General John Armstrong (1758-1843) to General Henry Dearborn (1751-1829), Headquarters of New York, dated August 8, 1812. Marked "Private," the letter reads "Dear […]

Three (3) ALS from Major Greenleaf Dearborn to General Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, including Second Seminole War. 1st item: Second Seminole War period ALS from Major Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846), Fort Armistead, Boca Sarasota, to his uncle General Henry A. S. Dearborn (1783-1851), Boston, MA, dated December 2, 1840. Greenleaf begins the letter by discussing his […]

Five (5) Marshall family items including books signed by U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, his wife and son, and a John Randolph ALS referencing comments about John Marshall by Thomas Hart Benton. 1st item: John Marshall (1755-1835) signed book, Life of James Crichton of Cluny, Commonly Called the Admirable Crichton by Patrick Fraser Tyler, Esq., […]

Two (2) books from the library of U.S. Chief Justice and Secretary of State John Marshall (1755-1835) 1st item: John Marshall signed, Cicero's Epistles to Atticus, Vol. II, translated by William Guthrie, Esq., 1752. Printed for T. Waller, London. Octavo, 536 pages, hardbound with brown leather covers and gilt lettering to spine. Ink John Marshall […]