Martha E. Seely collection, 1777-circa 1850.

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Martha E. Seely collection, 1777-circa 1850.

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Edition (16 January 1777) of the Independent Chronicle, Boston, Mass., containing an article on the Battle of Trenton and the initial installment of Thomas Paine's essay, The American Crisis; ALS (25 September 1811; Vincennes, Ind.) from William Henry Harrison concerning preparations for the Battle of Tippecanoe with the Shawnee Indians; a sea letter (17 July 1835) for the brig Black Hawk, Boston, Mass., signed by Andrew Jackson; commission (21 March 1850) for S. Allen Engles, assistant surgeon of the U.S. Navy, signed by Zachary Taylor; and a pass (circa 1850) issued by a Turkish palace official to a Prussian visitor to the Ottoman Empire.

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Seely, Martha E.

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