Manuscripts
Philippa, Queen consort, grant of land
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Walter Pomeroy land grant for a lot in Oregon City, Oregon
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Land Grant to Walter Pomeroy for lot no. five, block no. six on Water Street in Oregon City, Oregon. Signed and with an embossed red paper seal by President William McKinley, Secretary F. M. McKean and the Recorder of the General Land Office on September 13, 1900. The Land grant was recorded in the State of Oregon, County of Clackamas on September 29, 1900 with blind embossed seal of Clackamas County.
mssHM 16949
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Appointment of Hugh Peebles as Commissioner of Taxes for the County of Saratoga, New York
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With great seal of New York State attached.
mssHM 5328
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William Edward Newton patent with seal of Queen Victoria
Manuscripts
Patent for improved instrument for taking altitudes, with attached seal (2 pages, 52 x 76 cm, 46 x 61 cm). Includes several other documents: indenture, 1698 (23 x 64 cm); "Professor Bache Washington City or the High School Philadelphia" booklet of mechanical diagrams, undated (10 pages, 33 x 21 cm); William Edward Newton patent, 1856 July 28 (33 x 21 cm); William Edward Newton specifications (copy), 1857 January 26 (2 pages, 42 x 34 cm); John Stinson patent, 1855 September 18 (3 pages and two attached drawings, 51 x 38 cm).
mssShapiro
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Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., land grant to Calvin Bell
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Document signed; with impression of seal of the United States. (1 page)
HM 50172
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Letters patent to Ebenezer Markham
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Grant for tract of land in New York, Clinton County, being part of that set aside for Canadian and Nova Scotia refugees; signed by George Clinton with great seal of state attached.
mssHM 1760
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Grant of probate of the will of Richard Jones
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A grant of probate for Richard Jones who was the great-grandfather of Eleanor Searle; with papered seal. Also enclosed with this gift: 3 postcards of views of Battle Abbey (19th century), and 2 coins of private currency used on the Duke of Cleveland's estates (1867).
mssHM 82860