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Transcript of Notice from Chillmark clerk, 1773

1776 General Court Notice. An act providing for more equal representation in the General Court.

Transcript of a handwritten letter from John Horne concerning his trial. John Horne (Tooke) was prosecuted for a high treason and seditious libel about events at Lexington. John Horne Tooke (25 June 1736 – 18 March 1812), known as John Horne until 1782 when he added the surname of his friend William Tooke to his own, was an English clergyman, politician, and philologist. Letter to his attorney George Daniells of 31 Tenchurch st.

Transcript of a handwritten letter from Francis Lewis. As a representative from New York, Lewis signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation

Traqnscript of a handwritten letter from Savile who was an independent member of Parliament that voted to repeal the Stamp Act. This letter mentions the Poor Bill.

Transcript of land claim from Elizabeth Kempe of Philadelphia and her sisters, Catherine, and Jane Kempe. Along with W. John Wetherhead, interested party also. The daughters of William Kempe, Attorney General in His Majesty's Service to the province of New York 1752 -1759, attempting to make a claim on land owned by their (loyalist) father but confiscated. Upon the death of his father in 1759, John Tabor Kempe was appointed Attorney General of New York, the last to receive a royal commission. In 1825, John Tabor Kempe's heirs obtained passage of a bill in the New York Legislature that restored to them his house, stables and grounds on the northeast of Greenwich Street in New York City. Their efforts to have the New Jersey estates restored to them led to litigation and the case eventually came before the Supreme Court of the United States in Kempe's Lessee v. Kennedy, 9 U.S. 173 (1809).[New York Historical Society]

Transrcipt of a handwritten letter by Isaac Winslow to Samuel Waldo, Esquire dated December 7, 1749 on the affairs of Maine. It mentions Frank Winslow the authors brother, the vessel Spinder, Casco and Halifax, Governor Cornwallis, and the currency reform act.

A handwritten letter by Richard Ridgely (1755-1824) a member of the Continental Congress for Maryland in 1784 and 1785. Includes 2 page transcription.