American Historical Ephemera & Photography

CHAMBERS, John (1780-1852). Manuscript copy of expenses submitted to the United States by Joseph Boyle for assembling and treating with the Sac & Fox Indians, signed ("John Chambers") as 2nd Governor of the Iowa Territory. 20 September 1842. Burlington, Iowa Territory. 1p, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (light toning, creasing). Joseph Boyle countersigns acknowledging receipt of payment for three days salary in the amount of $8.00 for "treating with the Sac & Fox Indians."  Signed just weeks after the document offered here, the New Purchase of 1842 (The Sac and Fox treaty of 1842) ceded Indian lands and forced the Sac and Fox west of the Mississippi.

[With:] A group of 3 letters signed ("L.W. Whiting") by U.S. Army Major L.W. Whiting, War Department Clothing Bureau, and addressed to General Callendar Irvine, Commanding General of Purchases, relating to requisitions and outfitting the troops for "the Florida War." 1 June, 8 June, and 10 July 1841. (Creasing and toning on all, else good.) -- A group of 3 pamphlets: Memorial of Joseph Roby, Praying permission to locate a floating Indian reservation of land on any unappropriated lands if the Untied States, in Illinois or Wisconsin Territory. Washington: Blair & Rives, printers, 1837. 25th Congress, 2nd Session. 8pp, 5 3/4 x 9 in. (disbound, scattered spotting, toning); Message from the President of the United States, I compliance with a resolution of the Senate, showing the number and names of the soldiers enlisted during the late war, and entitled to bounty land. January 7, 1841. Washington: 1841. 26th Congress, 2nd Session. 34pp, 5 3/4 x 9 in. (disbound, scattered markings, light soil); Employees-Indian Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting A list of persons employed, &c. January 21, 1851. Washington: 1851. 31st Congress, 2nd Session. 12pp, 5 3/4 x 9 in. (disbound, light soil). Housed in manila file folder cut to serve as wraps and stapled along spine.

[Also with:] "Deed No. 2165." Indenture between John Watson "late a Private in Allyns Company of the Forty first Regiment of the Infantry" and Stephen Scribner of New York, transferring ownership of 160 acres in a tract originally appropriated for Military Bounties in the State of Illinois. 1 May 1830. 2pp, 8 x 12 1/2 in. (adhesive repairs to tears at folds, scattered spotting, light soil). -- Note signed by Black Hawk War veteran Zadock W. Flinn granting permission for his daughter Mary Jane Flinn to marry. Jacksonville, Illinois. 24 June 1840. -- Invitation to "Fourth of July Ball" at the home of William Alderson Docker (1791-1860). Shawneetown [Illinois]. 20 June 1834. 4 x 8 in. (scattered spotting, folds). -- KENDALL, Amos (1789-1869). Partly printed document signed ("Amos Kendall") as Treasury Department Auditor. 29 September 1831. 1p, 8 x 9 1/2 in. (toning, creasing at folds). Kendall was an influential American lawyer and journalist who was a member of Andrew Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet."