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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO WHOM WAS REFERRED THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT.OF DECEMBER 23 1805 TRANSMITTING A REPORT FROM THE GOVERNOR AND PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN RELATIVE TO THE STATE OF THE TERRITORY

1806WRCAM34534Washington: A. & G. Way 1806. 56pp. Dbd. Bright and fresh. Very good. The report of the House committee charged with responding to a request for federal action by Gov. William Hull and territorial judge August Woodward on the question of land disputes and the post-conflagration status of Detroit. Woodward was the compiler of the early laws of Michigan known as "The Woodward Code" and he was the main architect of the Detroit city plan. Included is a chronological table of settlements in the territory of Michigan beginning in 1763. "The report contains three letters from Judge Woodward to the Secretary of the Treasury written in January and March 1805 which analyze and classify the land titles of the territory. This is a fundamental piece for Michigan and Detroit" - Streeter. Scarce with Shaw & Shoemaker and OCLC locating a total of seven copies. The Streeter copy sold for $200 to Goodspeed's for the Clements Library. STREETER SALE 1386. STREETER MICHIGAN 6658. SABIN 48780. GREENLY MICHIGAN p.419. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 11717. OCLC 24866207 39695379. A. & G. Way unknown books

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HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SKETCHES OF MICHIGAN. COMPRISING A SERIES OF DISCOURSES DELIVERED BEFORE THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN AND OTHER INTERESTING PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE TERRITORY

1834WRCAM53118Detroit: Stephen Wells and George L. Whitney 1834. 215pp. Contemporary brown cloth printed paper label. Extremities worn hinges tender. Contemporary notations to front flyleaf. Early library stamps on titlepage and several text leaves; bookplate on rear pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Good. A rare collection of historical sketches relating to the early settlement of Michigan. This work prints the text of the four annual discourses delivered before the Historical Society of Michigan i.e. those by Lewis Cass Henry Whiting John Biddle and Henry Schoolcraft. Cass' remarks consist of general observations on the early condition of North American Indians in the region the French expedition to the sources of the Mississippi Pontiac's attack at Detroit Indian hostilities events during the Revolution etc. Schoolcraft's discourse consists of an account of the Iroquois Algonquin Chippewa Ottawa Foxes etc. with some discussion of their relations with the French. Also includes extracts from a lecture given before the Detroit Lyceum by Schoolcraft upon the natural history of Michigan. Whiting and Biddle add further material relating to Indian hostilities the War of 1812 the early political division of Michigan mining public lands disposal etc. A trove of early Michigan history. "Now very scarce" - Sabin. SABIN 32062. HOWES M582 "aa." MICHIGAN IMPRINTS 203. GREENLY MICHIGAN 64. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25738. Stephen Wells and George L. Whitney hardcover books

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AUTOGRAPH ALBUM CONTAINING MORE THAN 80 SIGNATURES INCLUDING PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS WILLIAM H. SEWARD JOHN A. DIX HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW PRESTON KING CHARLES SUMNER AND OTHERS; ABOUT 40 SIGNATURES OF MEMBERS OF THE 36TH AND 37TH U.S. CONGRESS AND CABINET MEMBERS DATED ABOUT 1861; SOME PROMINENT MEN FROM TEHE MONTANTA TERRITORY; AND ABOUT TWENTY-TWO SIGNATURES FROM THE AREA AROUND EUREKA CALIFORNIA DATED 1908-1909 MANY OF WHICH ARE U.S. ARMY AND NAVY OFFICERS

1900366431900. 5-1/4" x 7-3/4". Approx. 160 pp. Autograph album with red gilt decorated covers worn boards detached but present spine missing. Pages have been removed and the remaining pages are mostly loosened. Signatures are written both directly on the book's pages and also on separate pieces of paper tipped in. Some toning and staining of the occasional page. While the binding is in in fair condition the pages that remain are Good to Very Good. Autographs include in part: "Auburn Nov. 14 1860 Dear Sir I comply very cheerfully with the request contain in your courteous note and remain Respectfully your obednt servant William H. Seward" U.S. Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 Governor of New York and U.S. Senator from New York. "Washington 11 Feb 1861 Sir I have the pleasure of complying with your request. Respectfully yours John A. Dix". Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. "Yours truly Henry W. Longfellow" Famous poet and author of "Paul Revere's Ride". "Washington Dec. 16 1860/ Mr. T.A. Ashley/ Dear Sir Your letter of Dec. 10 is recd. Respectfully Preston King." Early free soil politician. "Dear Sir Faithfully Yours Charles Sumner" Massachusetts senator and Radical Republican. "Very truly yours Schuyler Colfax member from Indiana" "Washington Feb. 25 1861 to F.A. Ashley Esq. Dear Sir Yours of the 21st received and I hereby comply with your request Respectfully yours & c. Owen Lovejoy/ F.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich." U.S. Representative from Illinois conductor on the Underground Railroad brother of Elijah Lovejoy friend of Abraham Lincoln. "Washington D.C. August 24 1890 J.B.Cheadle Frankfort Indiana/ Represented the 9th Indiana District in the 50th & 51st Congresses. Elected in 1886 by 3416 majority and in 1888 by 4450 majority." "Very truly your friend W.H. Coffron North Baruch Mich. Washington D.C. 11/30/'84" with cartoon face. Michigan physician; graduate treasurer secretary and professor of Georgetown University. "With best wishes J. N. Gillette Governor of California Sept. 9th 1909". "House of Representatives Washington Feb. 21st 1861/ G.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich. Sir Yours of the 19th came to hand this evening. Very respectfully your obedt. Servant Cyrus Aldrich" Minnesota; "Yours truly Jas. Harlan" Early Free Soil politician federal judge U.S. Cabinet Secretary of the Department of the Interior under President Johnson; "Mason W. Tappan Ho. Reps. Washington 2/14/1861 Sir I am making a hand somewhere; and I prefer to make it before I start to run at all" New Hampshire "I'll try it and let you know Sam Gordon Miles City Aug. 17 83" New York native later settled in Montana where he established the Yellowstone Journal. "Albany April 10 1861 Dear Sir If you think my humble name written with my own hand will add anything to the value of your collection it gives me pleasure to make this small contribution. Yours with respect Ira Harris/ To F.A. Ashley Esq." New York senator and friend of Abraham Lincoln. "My Dear Bill Yours Truly J. Guthrie Asst. U.S. Inspector Hulls San Francisco CA Eureka Ca. March 2 1905" H. Winter Davis "James R. Doolittle "Louis Kerrsft Rear Admiral U.S. Navy 2nd March 1905"; "Yours very truly/ Alex. W. Buel"Michigan; B.F. Magee M.C. Michigan; "Truly Yours John T. Shurtleff Sept. 25 1909" H.P. Baldwin'; A.A. Burnham CT; Chas. A. Mack Jr.; Kinsley S. Bingham MI; Frank Higham Detroit M.; R.E. Trowbridge MI; W.K. Sebastian AR; John A. Gilmer NC a member of the Confederate Congress; JesseD. Bright IN owned plantation in KY with slaves and was the only person from a Northern State expelled from the Senate for his Confederate sympathies; J. Morrison Harris MD; Wm. Bigler PA 12th governor of PA ; John Cochrane NY; Zachariah Chandler Michigan leading abolitionist in Congress; M.S. Latham MI; Alex. W. Buell MI; John J. Perry Oxford Maine; Kit Adams; Emerson Etheridge TN; Edgar Cowan U.S.S. PA; Jno Goode PA; Miss T.C. Ashley; Loren C. Caddell; USMP Maj. Samuel Ruggles prominent New Yorker ; W.J. Thorne M; Alfred Ely; Katie Lackey; "Eureka July 23 1908 Hit the bear hard! Charles Ausyl Clarke U.S. Navy with much affection for Mr. Bell"; "Washington City D.C. Feby. 14 1861/ I am Truly Yours J. Markley" Ohio; Milton S. Davis Lieut. U.S.S.; C. Case IN; Harry C. Frankenfield DC 11/30/84; W.B. Holland; Sedley Chaplin supt. Construction Supervising Architects Office Treasury Deptt. Sept. 21 1909: Edward J Morris PA; William Pennington NJ; Neal Delano; Miriam F. Richmond; "A of Michigan" followed by signatures of Frank Johnson Charles B. Wood Gore Porter R.E. Frazer Aaron C. Jewett George Kingsley James A. Brown Dept. of Medicine; "Edwin Z. Pritchett 1st Lieut. 1st Field Artillery June 24 1909"; Walter S. Sturgill; Edgar H. Towar Detroit; 4/30/1861; B. Stanton Ohio; J Stout Oregon; H.H. Munds 1883 Billings MT; Senator from California R.L. Edwards; R.F. Woolfield and WH. Coory Montana; and others. unknown books

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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS IN 1796 ON THE ADMISSION OF TENNESSEE AS A STATE INTO THE UNION UPON A FOOTING WITH THE ORIGINAL STATES A CASE IN POINT SO FAR AS REGARDS OUR PRESENT POSITION IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN

1835WRCAM46448Detroit: Sheldon M'Knight Printer to the State 1835. 151pp. Dbd. Titlepage lightly foxed else near fine. An important Michigan constitutional pamphlet. Michigan had a long and difficult road to statehood primarily due to a long- standing dispute over the boundary with Ohio. Negotiations to bring Michigan into the Union finally came to a head in 1835 and this collection of documents describing the admission of Tennessee in 1796 was made up to bolster the case of the Michigan men. Tennessee was created from territory under the administration of the United States as was Michigan. STREETER MICHIGAN 6634. SABIN 65812. COHEN 10855. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 35152. AII MICHIGAN 285. McMURTRIE EARLY PRINTING IN MICHIGAN 241. Sheldon M'Knight, Printer to the State unknown books

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO WHOM WAS REFERRED THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT.OF DECEMBER 23 1805 TRANSMITTING A REPORT FROM THE GOVERNOR AND PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN RELATIVE TO THE STATE OF THE TERRITORY

HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SKETCHES OF MICHIGAN. COMPRISING A SERIES OF DISCOURSES DELIVERED BEFORE THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN AND OTHER INTERESTING PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE TERRITORY

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS IN 1796 ON THE ADMISSION OF TENNESSEE AS A STATE INTO THE UNION UPON A FOOTING WITH THE ORIGINAL STATES A CASE IN POINT SO FAR AS REGARDS OUR PRESENT POSITION IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN

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