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Shipped by the grace of God, in good order and well conditioned, by [blank] in and upon the good ship called the [blank] whereof is master, under God, for this present voyage, [blank] and now riding at anchor, in [blank] and by God's grace bound for [blank] to say, [blank] being marked and numbered as in the margent, and are to be delivered in the like good order, and well conditioned, at the aforesaid port of [blank] (the danger of the seas only excepted) unto [blank] or to h[blank] assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods [blank] with primage and average accustomed. In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said ship, hath affirmed to [blank] bills of lading, all of this tenor and date; the one of which [blank] bills being accomplished, the other [blank] to stand void. And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen. Dated in [blank]
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[not after 1762]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books sm # Am 1762 Shipped 16922.Q (Zinman)
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Office Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee, Southeast corner Sixth & Walnut Sts. Philadelphia, [blank] 186[blank] Received, this day, of the Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee of Philadelphia, the sum of four hundred dollars, being in full for the amount agreed upon for my enlisting for three years in the service of the United States, as a [blank] for [blank] of [blank] Ward, [blank] District of Pennsylvania. Also, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, being in full for the bounty offered by the city of Philadelphia. In all, six hundred and fifty dollars. $650 [blank]
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Creator
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Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Date
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[1863 or 1864]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Citizens (2)5777.F.61b (McAllister)
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Head quarters, Roberts' Artillery, N.E. cor. Eighth and Chestnut Streets [blank] The undersigned (late 1st Lieut. Rush's Lancers) having been authorized to recruit for the battalion (6 companies) of heavy artillery, of which Major Joseph Roberts, 4th U.S. Artillery, is to be commander, would most respectfully solicit your aid in defraying the expenses of recruiting this battalion. It is well known that the expense incurred in an undertaking of this kind is very great, and as government makes little or no provision for the defrayment of such expenses, they naturally fall with heavy weight upon the recruiting officers. ... Subscriptions will reach their destination, if sent through the Post Office, directed to [blank] Captain Company A. Philadelphia, October, 1862
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Creator
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United States, Army, Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment, 3rd (1862-1865)
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Date
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[1862]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.71b (McAllister)
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Head quarters, Roberts' Artillery, N.E. cor. Eighth and Chestnut Streets [blank] The undersigned (late 1st Lieut. Rush's Lancers) having been authorized to recruit for the battalion (6 companies) of heavy artillery, of which Major Joseph Roberts, 4th U.S. Artillery, is to be commander, would most respectfully solicit your aid in defraying the expenses of recruiting this battalion. It is well known that the expense incurred in an undertaking of this kind is very great, and as government makes little or no provision for the defrayment of such expenses, they naturally fall with heavy weight upon the recruiting officers. ... Subscriptions will reach their destination, if sent through the Post Office, directed to [blank] Captain Company A. Philadelphia, October, 1862
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Creator
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United States, Army, Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment, 3rd (1862-1865)
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Date
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[1862]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.76a (McAllister)
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Commissioner's Office, Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa., [blank] 186[blank] I, Joseph S. Ely, Commissioner to superintend the draft for said county, certify that I drafted into the military service of the United States, [blank] of [blank] in said county, who has offered to me as his substitute, [blank] of [blank] in said county, who has been accepted and received by me in lieu of the said [blank]
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Creator
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Bucks County (Pa.), Draft Commissioner
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Date
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[between 1861 and 1865]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Bucks (2)5777.F.63b (McAllister)
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County Commissioners' Office, Doylestown, Bucks Co., Pa., February 15, 1865 This is to certify, that the bearer will be entitled to the sum of three hundred dollars, with six per cent. interest from the date. Payable out of the Bucks County Bounty Fund, on the first day of July, anno Domini 1866, at which time the interest on this certificate will cease
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Creator
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Bucks County (Pa.), County Commissioners
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Date
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[1865]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Bucks (2)5777.F.75d
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Philadelphia, [blank] 1862. To [blank] Sir: You will please take notice that you have been enrolled as liable to military duty. If you claim you are not liable, on account of physical defect or bodily infirmity, or that you are exempt from the performance of military duty by any law of this state or of the United States, it will be your duty, on or before the [blank] day of [blank] 1862, to deliver to either of the undersigned, at their residence, [blank] an affidavit, stating such facts on which you claim to be exempt, or not liable to such military duty. [blank] [blank] assessors
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Date
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[1862]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Phila (2)5777.F.76c (McAllister)
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Jackson Infantry, Twenty-ninth Regiment, P.V Philadelphia, [blank] 1862. This is to certify, that [blank] is a [blank] of Captain [blank] Company of the Jackson Infantry Regiment, the Twenty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by Colonel John K. Murphy, and has been mustered into the service of the United States, for the terms of three years, or during the existing war. [blank] Captain. [Blank] Colonel commanding regiment
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Creator
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United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 29th (1861-1865)
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Date
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[1862]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.75l (McAllister)
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Office Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee, Southeast corner Sixth and Walnut Streets. Philadelphia, [blank] 1864 To Captain [blank] Provost Marshal, [blank] District, Pennsylvania. The bearer [blank], representing himself to be not liable to draft as a [blank], desires to volunteer as a [blank] for [blank] of [blank] Ward, [blank] District, Philadelphia. If accepted, after proper examination, please muster him in as a [blank] for the said [blank], and send him under guard to this office, between [blank] and [blank] o'clock this afternoon, when the substitute money and city bounty will be paid to him on presentation of an exemption paper or certificate of representation for the said [blank] and a certificate of credit to the [blank] Ward. If rejected, please report to this office without loss of time. [blank] Secretary
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Creator
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Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Date
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[1864]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Citizens (2)5777.F.68c (McAllister)
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Philadelphia, [blank] 1862. To [blank] Sir: You will please take notice that you have been enrolled as liable to military duty. If you claim you are not liable, on account of physical defect or bodily infirmity, or that you are exempt from the performance of military duty by any law of this state or of the United States, it will be your duty, on or before the [blank] day of [blank] 1862, to deliver to either of the undersigned, at their residence, [blank] an affidavit, stating such facts on which you claim to be exempt, or not liable to such military duty. [blank] [blank] assessors
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Date
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[1862]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Phila (2)5777.F.68i (McAllister)
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United States of America. Bucks County, Pennsylvania Be it remembered, that at a Court of Common Pleas, held at Doylestown, for the county of Bucks, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States of America, on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- [blank] [blank] a native of [blank] exhibited a petition, praying to become a citizen of the United States, and it appearing to the said court that he had declared on [blank] before the [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D. 185[blank] that it was bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce for ever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatsoever
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Creator
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Pennsylvania, Court of Common Pleas (Bucks County)
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Date
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[185-]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books #Am 1850 Penn Cou 11330.F (Doret)
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United States of America. Bucks County, Pennsylvania Be it remembered, that at a Court of Common Pleas, held at Doylestown, for the county of Bucks, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States of America, on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- [blank] [blank] a native of [blank] exhibited a petition, praying to become a citizen of the United States, and it appearing to the said court that he had declared on [blank] before the [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D. 185[blank] that it was bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce for ever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatsoever
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Creator
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Pennsylvania, Court of Common Pleas (Bucks County)
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Date
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[185-]
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1850 Penn Cou 11330.F (Doret)
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Bank of True Love.
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Creator
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Rosenthal, L.N. (Louis N.), lithographer., creator
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Date
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[1852?]
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Maryland, ss. Frederick, absolute lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltimore, &c. To all persons to whom these presents shall come, Greeting in our Lord God everlasting Know ye, that [blank] according to the certificate of survey thereof, taken and returned into our land-office, bearing date the [blank] day of [blank] seventeen hundred and [blank] and there remaining, together with all rights, profits, benefits, and privileges, thereunto belonging, royal mines excepted, to have and to hold the same, unto him the said [blank] his heirs and assigns, for ever, to be holden of us and our heirs, as of our manor of [blank] in free and common soccage, by fealty only for all manner of services, yielding and paying therefore, yearly, unto us, and our heirs, at our receipt at our city of St. Mary's, at the two most usual feasts in the year, viz. the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Michael the Arch Angel, be even and equal portions, the rent of [blank] sterling, in silver or gold
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Creator
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Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771
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Date
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[not after 1754]
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Location
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Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1754 Balti 10210.F (Zinman)
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