Inventor Name
Adams, John Quincy
Repository
Chicago Historical Society
Clark St. at North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614-6071
312-642-4600
http://www.chicagohs.org/collections/archives.html
Physical Description
1 folder
Summary
Correspondence, certificates, and other documents. Items signed by John Quincy Adams include: letter from St. Petersburg, Russia, to President Madison, agreeing to remain as minister to Russia, 8 Feb. 1811; passport issued in London to Celestin de Pontalba and family of New Orleans, 10 July 1815; certificate that the enclosed handwritten copy of the printed form for Letters of Marque issued by the State Department is a true copy, 26 Jan. 1820; letter to Hugh Nelson in Philadelphia, who was U.S. minister plenipotentiary to Spain, 16 May 1823; printed letter signed from Adams to the editor of the Illinois Gazette, at Shawneetown, about publication of laws, 13 Nov. 1824; appointment of Thomas Mather to mark road from Missouri to New Mexico, 4 June 1825; appointment of Henry A.S. Dearborn as collector of customs for district of Boston and Charlestown, 3 Jan 1826; invitation to dinner for Col. Mather, 21 Mar. 1828; appointment of Lewis Cass to arrange a treaty with American Indians, 24 May 1828; letter to Arnold Buffum, Philadelphia, commenting on Texas question, presidential candidates, and Pennsylvania abolitionists, 18 Apr. 1838; letter to James Mitchel, Baltimore, 27 Dec. 1839. Includes volume containing retained copies of nine letters from Adams in St. Petersburg, Russia, to George Washington Adams on Biblical and moral topics (1811 and 1813, 42 p.). Oversize folder includes: appointment of William M. Steuart as captain of cavalry of 2nd brigade of militia of the District of Columbia, 23 Aug. 1826; letters patent for a machine for making shingles issued to Paul Hawes, 30 Mar. 1827; land grant to William Vanhauten in Edgar County, Ill., 1 Aug. 1827; land grants to Alexander Bever of Fountain County, Indiana, 10 Aug. 1827 and 3 Jan. 1828; commission of Wolcott Chauncey as captain in the U.S. Navy, 24 Apr. 1828; appointment of Daniel T. Patterson to a board of naval commissioners, 1 Aug. 1828.