Western and Historical Americana

Brooklyn, Conn., April-June 1794. 1 vol., 61p. In 1794, David Putnam (grandson of the Revolutionary hero Israel Putnam) was a 25-year-old man lookin

Timothy E. Danielson. 3 ALsS to Samuel P. Hildreth, 1812. In July 1812, Lieut. T.E. Danielson raised a company of volunteers in Marietta, Ohio, for m

3 documents, 1808, 1809, 1863. Two printed receipts for pews in the meeting house of the First Religious Society in Marietta, Ohio, purchased at Publi

lot of 3. A renowned figure during the Revolutionary War, Gen. Israel Putnam is best remembered for his courage at Bunker Hill, where he was reported

ca 1835, 30pp. Small (12mo) hand-sewn journal, no covers, written variously in pencil and ink. Although the author and date of this travel journal

Hildreth, Samuel P. History of an early Voyage on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, c.1842. 42pp plus 14 leaves of additional drafts and notes. In th

1805-1860. 32 items (11 ALsS, 11 DS, 2 poems, a manuscript and printed Hildreth genealogy, and 6 miscellaneous items). A prominent figure in Ohio du

ca 1823. OBITUARY. Died, on the 28th of January, 1823, at the Cherokee Agency; Aged LXXXIII, COLONEL RETURN JONATHAN MEIGS. one page, folio, 10 x 16...

China Trade Logbook, June 24, 1809-June 8, 1810. In 1807, Thomas Jefferson passed an embargo on all foreign trade in the hope that it would reduce t

plus an October 1914 TLS and a signed copy of the Roycroft Dictionary. Each letter, 1p, typed on 8.5" x 11" paper, East Aurora, which is i...