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[Agreement to Hire a Schoolteacher]

Legal document outlining the expectations of Uriah Cunning to become the teacher at an unidentified school. The document also includes a list of outstanding subscription fees; it is signed by Uriah Cunning and James Brown.

Date: August 30, 1824

Item Type: Legal Document

[Letters Patent for Flutter Wheels]

Letters patent granting rights to James Stewart for an improvement to flutter wheels used to drive gins, mills, and other machinery.

Date: October 24, 1828

Creator: United States. Patent Office.

Item Type: Patent

[Invitation to a Ball in Honor of General La Fayette]

Invitation to a Ball to honor the arrival of General Lafayette to the city of Nashville, Tennessee in April, 1825. There is an engraved illustration of an arch made up of two pillars with statues

Date: 1825

Item Type: Text

[Clipping, 1820]

This document is from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is a clipping which details the politicians who were running for positions in the state senate and congress. The clipping is dated 1820.

Date: 1820

Item Type: Clipping

[Electoral ticket, 1820]

Newspaper clipping containing the electoral ticket list for the state at large and for congressional districts in 1820. The ticket for the state at large includes Adam Hunstman and Andrew Johnson. The ticket for congressional districts includes Brookins Campbell, John E. Wheeler, John F. Gillespy, G. W. Bowles, Samuel H. Laughlin, William Trousdale, William Carroll, Henderson Yoakum, A.O.P. Nicholson, George W. Jones, Bolling Gordon, A.W.O. Totten, and Levin H. Coe.

Date: 1820

Item Type: Text

[Envelope, 1825]

Envelope that is dated 1825. The writing is in pencil and appears to say, " Welcome La Fayette; Israel Moore discharge; By...."

Date: 1825~

Item Type: Text

[Patent Letter for Improvement in the Application of Water to Flutter Wheels, October 24, 1828]

A patent letter granting patent to James Stewart for his development in the improved application of water to flutter wheels. The purpose of the invention is to better drive saw-mills, grist mills, cotton gins, etc. Attached is a duplicate of the patent letter.

Date: October 24, 1828

Creator: United States

Item Type: Legal Document

[Warrant, September 9, 1825]

Warrant to Chauncey H. Redway establishing his rank as 1st Sergeant of a Company under the command of Captain J. D. Smith in the 21st Regiment, 5th Brigade, and 1st Division of Artillery of the Militia of the State of New York.

Date: September 9, 1825

Creator: Camp, Elisha

Item Type: Text

[Captain's Warrant, August 25, 1829]

Warrant from Captain Chauncey H. Redway to Sergeant Frien O. Payn. The warrant orders Payn to warn the listed persons to appear armed and equipped for Company parade at the house of John Burch at 8 o'clock AM on September 7. Payn is also charged with warning the named persons to appear at the Presbyterian Meeting House in Sacket's Harbor at 8 o'clock AM on September 18 for the general muster.

Date: August 25, 1829

Creator: Redway, Chauncey H.

Item Type: Legal Document

Map of Routes to the Principal Mining Districts in the Central States of Mexico.

Map of several states bordering the Gulf of Mexico in central Mexico from 1828. The routes to the principal mining districts and other roads are marked, as well as towns, landmarks, rivers, and some topographic features (with relief shown by hachures).

Date: April 1828

Creator: Ward, H. G. (Henry George), 1797-1860.

Item Type: Map

Map of the Northwestern Territories of the United States, Showing the Track pursued by the Expedition under Gov. Cass in 1820

Map of the Great Lakes region showing the track of the expedition under Governor Cass in 1820. Includes place names, rivers and an inset drawing of Upper Red Cedar or Cassina Lake. Some routes are highlighted in red. Scale 1:3,801,600

Date: 1820

Creator: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864.

Item Type: Map

Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Unbound sheets]

A complete set of unbound sheets of the last printing of the Pickering Horace. The Horace was originally printed by Pickering in 1820 as the first of his Diamond Classics, and are a landmark in the world of miniature books and printing. This set of sheets are a remarkable survival, giving insight into the printing and binding process. The sheets are quarter-sheet impressions, each sheet holding 8 front-and-back leaves (16 pages) of the text. The sheets have been folded into gathers, and lef… more

Moralizing tale of the youth who starts by missing just a few minutes of Sunday school, slides into sin, skips class, joins a fire company, and eventually lands in prison in Maryland with a 15 year term for robbery.

Date: [1827..1853]

Item Type: Book

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[Patent Letter for Improvement in the Application of Water to Flutter Wheels, October 24, 1828]

[Warrant, September 9, 1825]

[Captain's Warrant, August 25, 1829]

Map of Routes to the Principal Mining Districts in the Central States of Mexico.

Map of the Northwestern Territories of the United States, Showing the Track pursued by the Expedition under Gov. Cass in 1820

Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Unbound sheets]

The fall of man

Noah and the flood.

Jacob and Esau

Adam and Eve

Vanity.

Signs.

Parental anxiety.

The new bonnet.

The kink in the engine rope.

Is it worth climbing for?

The home-made boy.

Harvest close upon seed time.