Washington, George; Jefferson, Thomas; Morris, Robert; et al. American State Papers. Miscellaneous. Class X, Vol. 1. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1832-1834. [11672]
Sometime rebound in brown buckram, ex library with labels to spine, 13 x 8 1/2 inches. ix, 947, xxx clean pages. Good. Hardcover.
This volume covers the years 1789 to 1809, and includes documents pertaining to many significant events that took place in the first years of the new United States. It includes messages from the presidents, reports from the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, other cabinet secretaries, from the Senate, the House of Representatives, states, &c.
Topics include early statements regarding courts, the law system, General Washington accepting his election as President of the United States, state and territory boundaries, the 1796 Constitution of Tennessee, the 1799 Insurrection in Pennsylvania, the 1794 "Whiskey Rebellion," the acquisition of and laws pertaining to Louisiana, the conspiracy of Aaron Burr and his associates, the trial of Aaron Burr (the complete trial record, some 250 pages), lists of civil and military officers, the building of the Cumberland Road, slavery, militias, &c., &c. This is just a fraction of the contents: there are 263 separate items, some of which are lengthy.
The report no. 250 on Roads and Canals, submitted in 1808, has the following maps and charts: Barnstable Bay; Wenormuck Point; Dismal Company's Survey of the border between North Carolina and Virginia showing Drummond's Lake, the Pasquotank River, line of the Dismal Swamp Company's Canal, and the Elizabeth River in Norfolk; folding Map of the country betwixt Chowan and Nansemend Rivers, shewing the track of a Canal proposed to be cut from Bennett's Creek to Suffolk; large folding very detailed map of the boundary between Indiana and Kentucky, showing Clarksville, Jeffersonville, and Louisville, with the islands and river, showing thea proposed canal and locks. This large report (pp. 724-920) gives detailed information of roads and canals in all of the States.
