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Varnum, Jacob Butler, 1788-1874. Jacob Butler Varnum papers, 1811-1888, bulk 1811-1833.

Title: Jacob Butler Varnum papers, 1811-1888, bulk 1811-1833.

The Jacob Butler Varnum papers contain letters and documents related to Varnum's career as a factor at United States Indian trading posts in Sandusky, Ohio, and Fort Dearborn, Chicago; as a captain in the 40th Massachusetts Infantry during the War of 1812; and as a Washington, D.C. merchant following his government service. Included are letters and instructions from government officials concerning trade with Indians, as well as letters from Varnum to his father, Senator Joseph B. Varnum, concerning his activities as factor.

ArchivalResource: 78 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768166730 View

Graham, George, 1772-1830. George Graham correspondence, 1816-1824.

Title: George Graham correspondence, 1816-1824.

Correspondence of George Graham.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft. (1 wallet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428434805 View

Graham, George, 1770-1830. George Graham letter, 1816.

Title: George Graham letter, 1816.

Letter by George Graham, Secretary of War, to Colonel Robert Butler, Adjutant General, Nashville, Tenn., referring to an incident involving American officers serving in an expedition to Barataria Bay, La.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166300954 View

Crawford, William Harris, 1772-1834. Letters to Andrew Jackson concerning Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee cessions, 1816-1822.

Title: Letters to Andrew Jackson concerning Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee cessions, 1816-1822.

Two letters from William H. Crawford of the War Department dated July 5, 1816. Addressed to Major General Andrew Jackson, General David Meriwether, and Jesse Franklin; letter to Andrew Jackson from William McIntosh from August, 1822; seven letters to Andrew Jackson from George Graham of the War Department. Letters discuss land claims and treaties with the Indians of Tennessee and Georgia, including negotiations, discussion of the Indian's concerns, monetary values of transactions, and details of proposed treaties.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64061959 View

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848. John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of America : to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : land grant, 1828 May 12.

Title: John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of America : to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : land grant, 1828 May 12.

Land grant dated May 12, 1828 to Catherine Bullinger, daughter of the late George F. Bullinger who had served as a private in the infantry during the War of 1812.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf) : vellum ; 24 x 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35641605 View

Confidential and unofficial letters sent [microform]., 1814-1847

Title: Confidential and unofficial letters sent [microform]. 1814-1847

Two letterbooks containing transcriptions of outgoing letters by departmental officials, including Lewis Cass and Albert M. Lea, who were involved with exploration of the upper Midwest.

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Cherokee Nation. Letter : Washington, [D.C.], to George Graham, Dept. of War, 1816 Mar. 22.

Title: Letter : Washington, [D.C.], to George Graham, Dept. of War, 1816 Mar. 22.

Contemporary copy of a Mar. 22, 1816, letter from the Cherokee delegation in Washington, to George Graham, acting secretary of war, requesting that unauthorized persons be removed by military force from their reserved lands, so that the lessee, Gideon Morgan, could take possession.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36524918 View

Graham, George. Graham, George, letter, 1824.

Title: Graham, George, letter, 1824.

Letter from George Graham to S. A. Foot describes the land granted to Elias Smith in the Territory of Arkansas.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85277441 View

Bank of the United States (1816-1836). Letters, 1822-1838.

Title: Letters, 1822-1838.

Letters from Biddle and Cheves, the bulk from Biddle, chiefly to George Graham, president of the Washington branch, and to Richard Smith, cashier, concerning bank business.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (236 items) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612829191 View

United States. General Land Office. George Graham letter, 1830 June 10.

Title: George Graham letter, 1830 June 10.

The letter, dated June 10, 1830, requests a list of land warrants issued for Kentucky lands for Revolutionary War service from the governor of Kentucky, who was then Thomas Metcalfe.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41433517 View

Graham, George, 1770-1830. George Graham papers, 1818-1824.

Title: George Graham papers, 1818-1824.

Three letters of Jean Laffite written from Galveston, Tex., to Graham explaining Laffite's motives in seizing the port of Galveston and informing Graham that Pierre Laffite would give him verbal information concerning operations of the Spanish (1818). Also included are a commission from President James Monroe appointing Graham as Commissioner of the General Land Office (1823) and a letter of John Q. Adams, Secretary of State, transmitting the commission to Graham (1824).

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166300964 View

Graham, George, 1770-1830. Letter: to Richard Smith /by George Graham, 1819 Jun 26.

Title: Letter: to Richard Smith /by George Graham, 1819 Jun 26.

About James Johnson and the Yellowstone expedition.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702128425 View

War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Title: War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Consists of individual items acquired separately either as a gift or purchase from a variety of sources, relating to the War of 1812.

ArchivalResource: 3181 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC1213 View

Brown, Jacob, 1775-1828. Jacob Brown papers, 1812-1828.

Title: Jacob Brown papers, 1812-1828.

Two official letterbooks, chiefly 1814-1828, containing copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, accounts, and reports, relating to the military career and activities of Major-General Brown, especially his participation in various battles of the War of 1812 around Niagara, Fort Erie, and Lake Ontario; and as commander of the Division of the North, with headquarters at Brownville, N.Y. Includes material on general military matters, troop movements, army reorganization, establishment of forts and other military construction, and relations with the Indians, namely a "Memorandum of the Tribes of Indians in the North-West...." with various statistics on the tribes and their ways of life. A third volume entitled "Memorandum of occurrences and some important facts attending the Campaign on the Niagara in 1814" contains memoranda and copies of correspondence relating to the Battle of Lundy's Lane in which Brown figured prominently. Correspondents include John Armstrong, James Barbour, John C. Calhoun, Isaac Chauncey, De Witt Clinton, William Harris Crawford, Alexander James Dallas, Edmund Pendleton Gaines, George Graham, George Izard, Andrew Jackson, Alexander Macomb, James Monroe, Daniel Parker, and Winfield Scott.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.1 container.1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71061514 View

Graham family. Papers, 1798-1925

Title: Papers : of the Graham family, 1798-1925.

The collection contains correspondence, 1803-1830, and related materials of George Graham of Fairfax County, Va., and as chief clerk and acting secretary of the U.S. War Dept. and commissioner of the U.S. General Land Office, in part concerning the settlement of French refugees at Galveston Island, Mexico [now Texas], Jean Lafitte, and the financial claims of former president James Monroe. Some of Graham's correspondents include John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, James Madison, John Mason, and William Cabell Rives. Also includes 42 letters, 1817-1829, written by President James Monroe to Graham concerning Monroe's finances and indebtedness to the Bank of the United States, the "Ash Lawn" estate in Albemarle County, Va., Andrew Jackson, and the War of 1812. Also includes correspondence, 1829-1887, and related materials of George Mason Graham of Tyrone Plantation, Rapides Parish, La., and while adjutant general of the Louisiana state militia and president of the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, Alexandria, La. (now Louisiana State University). Some of the correspondents include Pierre G.T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Robert Charles Wickliffe. Also contains miscellaneous letters and papers of other members of the Crallé, Graham, and Stuart families of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 353 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29879620 View

Tiffin, Edward, 1766-1829. Papers, 1785-1853.

Title: Papers, 1785-1853.

Correspondence, commercial and legal documents, sermons, maps, surveys, and booklets of financial and medical prescription data.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17725189 View

United States. War Dept. Confidential and unofficial letters sent, 1814-1847 [microform].

Title: Confidential and unofficial letters sent, 1814-1847 [microform].

Two letterbooks containing transcriptions of outgoing letters by departmental officials, including Lewis Cass and Albert M. Lea, who were involved with exploration of the upper Midwest.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313845592 View

United States. War Dept. Letter : [Washington, D.C.], to George W. Campbell, [Washington, D.C.], 1817 Jan. 18.

Title: Letter : [Washington, D.C.], to George W. Campbell, [Washington, D.C.], 1817 Jan. 18.

January 18, 1817, letter from the secretary of war, George Graham, to the U.S. senator from Tennessee, George W. Campbell, enclosing a copy of his Jan. 13 letter to Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, which concerned the removal of intruders from lands north of the Tennessee River ceded to the U.S. by the Chickasaw Indians in a Sept. 20, 1816, treaty.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.) ; 26 cm + enclosure (1 folded sheet (4 p.) ; 26 cm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40533355 View

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Papers, 1776-1934

Title: Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Papers 1776-1934

Soldier and statesman. Correspondence, legal documents, clippings, broadsides, orderly book, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Lafayette's military service in Canada and Virginia, his tour of the United States from 1824 to 1825, his land in Florida, and his views of such topics as the slave trade and the French government, including also material pertaining to the centennial observance of his death and Lafayette's genealogy.

ArchivalResource: 300 items; 2 containers plus 3 oversize; 1.4 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009082 View