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[Summary of troops and equipment surrendered to General Horatio Gates by General John Burgoyne]

An unknown person compiled statistics relative to Burgoyne's surrender to Gates after the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. The scrap of paper is dated in October 1781. Breaks down nationality of the captured soldiers, number of sick and wounded, types and...

GLC01450.197.01

[Muster roll of Major General Friedrich Adolph Riedesel's regiment infantry of the Brunswick troops]

Created at Fort Brooklyn. Includes recruits sent "from Brunswik to America in the year 1780 as muster'd by his britanik Majesty's Commissary of Muster, William Porter." Includes the names of regimental staff (servants, clerks, and chaplains, among...

GLC01450.605

[Receipt for Archibald Crary]

Written in a Council of War. Receipt allows Colonel Archibald Crary to draw 90 pounds, in either silver or gold, from the general treasury. Note on verso, signed by Crary, says he received payment on 6 December 1781.

GLC01450.243.06

[Print of George Clinton]

Depicts General George Clinton standing next to a bayonet, cannon, and cannon balls. Another soldier stands in the background, with his back to Clinton. The backdrop appears to portray the Hudson River Valley. A printed notation states "From the...

GLC01450.623.02

[10th Massachusetts regiment orderly book]

Details daily orders for the troops and assigns field officers and major of the brigades for each day. Many entries deal with supplying and ordering clothing for the soldiers. Reports the results of many court martials, most trying soldiers for...

GLC01450.016.01

[Account of artillery stores released to James Boyd]

Signed by Wray as Commissary to the Royal Artillery. Boyd is described as "Matross in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Indicates that the supplies lists were for "the New Work on Hadress Point."

GLC01450.156

[Order to collect twenty eight pounds from the treasurer of Middletown, Rhode Island]

Explains that the money is owed the state treasury for the costs of procuring beef to provision Revolutionary War soldiers. Orders the sheriff of Newport to collect the money from Thomas Peckham, the Middletown treasurer, and if he does not supply...

GLC01450.447.01

Collection of letters of British soldier Charles Irvine to his brother [Decimalized .01-.19]

GLC01450.023

[Resolution of the Court allowing delegates to draw money]

Signed and approved by John Hancock as a true copy by John Avery. Appropriating 3000 pounds out of the new emission of money for the Treasurer of Massachusetts for use by the delegates of the state at Congress. Imposes a limit of 600 pounds for any...

GLC01450.020.11

[Massachusetts reenlistment document]

Partially printed document signed by Thomas Kimball, whose identity is unknown, who appears to have written everything in ink on the page. Document subscribes Ebenezer Low, Jr. and Thomas Jalloson to continue in the service of the United States for...

GLC01450.604