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Collection Item
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[Appointment of John Wheelwright as Commander of the privateer ship The Neptune]

December 24, 1779

Jay, John, 1745-1829

Countersigned by Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, and John Avery.

GLC01450.002
Collection Item
Manuscript document signed

[Revolutionary War exchange note drawn on France]

20 July 1780

Truxton, Thomas, fl. 1780

GLC01450.142
Collection Item
Manuscript signed

[Records of court martial of Samuel Shattuck]

January 1780

Greenleaf, Moses, 1755-1812

Record of the court martial trial of Sergeant Samuel Shattuck. Lists other men set to stand trial, and gives details of Shattucks case. Includes tesstimony of two witnesses who testified that Shattuck knowingly left the service before his time was...

GLC01450.438
Collection Item
Manuscript

[Proverb and song sheet of Gideon Savage]

1780-1820 circa

Savage, Gideon, 1751-1833

First side of sheet has a list of proverbs, each written about 5 or 6 times. "A great number does not always argue strength," "peace of mind being secured, we may smile at misfortune," etc. The back of the sheet has the lyrics to a popular ballad...

GLC01450.013.13
Collection Item
Autograph manuscript

[John Lovett account book for Pilgrim's prizes]

1780-1825

Lovett, John, 1743-1792

Details distribution of the prize monies from the privateer ship the Pilgrim. Many notes added in 1806-1807 certifying money was received by various sailors from the estate of the deceased Lovett. Most signed by Elizabeth Lovett, his wife. Lovett...

GLC01450.006.14
Collection Item
Manuscript document signed

Land grant to Maj. Arent Schuyler De Peyster (Detroit area)

20 July 1780

Pottwatomi Indian Nation, fl. 1780

Land grant to Arent Schuyler De Peyster, Major in the King's 8th Regiment at Detroit. De Peyster has signed on the back where he turns-over his ownership to a nephew. Signed with pictographs by the representatives of the following Indian tribes, all...

GLC01450.808
Collection Item
Autograph manuscript signed

[Little's account of refreshments delivered]

1780

Little, William, fl. 1780-1786

Records refreshments delivered to Lamb's (possibly Colonel John Lamb's) regiment of artillery, Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin's regiment of artificers, Livingston (possibly James Livingston's) regiment of infantry, a corps of sappers and miners, and...

GLC01450.806
Collection Item
Manuscript document signed

[Account of supplies used by the Royal Artillery in Charleston, South Carolina in October 1780]

31 October 1780

Traille, Peter, fl. 1782

Lists ordnance, building supplies, and smithery, wagon-making, repair, and laboratory supplies, the service for which they were needed and the quantities expended.

GLC01450.155
Collection Item
Autograph document signed

[David King's orders to pay Aaron White Jr.]

1780-1815 circa

King, David, fl. 1780-1815

Receipt ordering payment of 2077 pounds of Carolina money to Aaron White Jr. This document originally housed in Gideon Savage's wooden chest (GLC01450.013.02) with others decimalized in GLC01450.013. White was Savage's father-in-law. Not dated but...

GLC01450.013.11
Collection Item
Document signed

[Resolution of the Connecticut Assembly to pay Amos Mead]

11 May 1780

Wyllys, George, 1710-1796

States that Mead advanced Lieutenant James Hughes two hundred dollars Continental currency to raise a company for the defense of Greenwich. The next year Hughes defected to the enemy, leaving Mead with only a promissory receipt. The assembly...

GLC01450.169.02

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