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Plaintative plea for mercy addressed to Davis, judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, by the "disconsolate" wife of 29-year old Baltimore sea captain Joseph Findley Smith, the first American convicted under the U.S. laws of 1808 and 1818 outlawing the transatlantic slave trade.
Letters of John Davis to his brother Thomas Davis of Plymouth, Mass. The early letters discuss personal and philosophical matters, and were written while John Davis was a student at Harvard and during the first years of his law career (1778-1785). The later letters (1796), written while Davis was Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury, concern political affairs in the Capitol, particularly the Treaty of San Lorenzo and the attempt by Congressman Edward Livingston to force President Washington to release papers relating to Jay's treaty with Great Britain.
Letters from son at Harvard College to father, with a receipt for supplies for a trip to Penobscot and documentation of the phases of the solar eclipse of October 27, 1780, as observed from Penobscot Bay.