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Money paid by Lieutenant Colonel Kingston on Account of General Burgoyne

Account of General John Burgoyne's spending between September and December 1777. First page seems to be the final draft of the account. Mentions expenditures for cheese, horses, and for transporting the general's baggage. Kingston, one of Burgoyne's...

GLC04764.90

[Certification of arrival of recruits]

Written in a secretarial hand for Bird as Lieutenant Colonel of 15th Regiment of Foot. Certifies that James Ainsworth and George Lupton, recruits from the 20th Regiment of Foot, have joined his regiment. Bird died on 4 October 1777 at the Battle of...

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[Certification of arrival of recruits]

Written in a secretarial hand for Major Ogilvie, commander of the 4th Regiment of Foot. Cosigned by Major Robert Kingston. Certifies that John Crawford, Richard Jones, and Thomas Welsh were received from the 20th Regiment of Foot.

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[Cypher]

Appears to be Kingston's cypher to communicate with his superiors while a prisoner of war after the Battle of Saratoga. On verso are the names of the people who seem to be in on the coded messages: General Sir William Howe, General Robert Pigot...

GLC04764.01

[Certification of arrival of recruits]

Written in secretarial hand and signed by "R.M. Liroth" and marked "May 6th." Certifies that 64th Regiment of Foot received Derby Eaden as a recruit from the 20th Regiment of Foot.

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Return of the Number of Drafts received by the 40th Regiment from the Several Regiments serving in Canada &c & Amboy 20th March 1777

Written by Musgrave as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 40th Regiment, before the loss at the Battle of Saratoga. Document records the number of troops sent over from the 8th, 9th, 47th, and 62nd Regiments. The total number of troops sent to the 40th...

GLC04764.04

Account of Money Expended by Elijah Grout & Robt Perry On an Expedition to Connecticut River - by His Excellency General Burgoyne's Orders

Lists cash expenditures for his expedition south from Montreal, Canada. Mentions cash payments to get his expedition to St. Johns, the Connecticut River, Ticonderoga, and opposite Crown Point. Paid a Mr. Hubbard to distribute Burgoyne's declarations...

GLC04764.07

Objections, by the 24th Regt.

List of two objections the 24th Regiment of Foot had against the Articles of Convention that delineated the terms of surrender of the British Army after its defeat in the Battle of Saratoga. Seems to be written in the months after the battle at...

GLC04764.39

[Request for advance on pay]

Jones has written Skeensbury as the place he was writing from, but it was properly known as Skenesboro, New York at the time. It is now Whitehall, New York. Says he has received his ensign pay up to 24 June 1777 and asks for two months advance on his...

GLC04764.10

The Field Officers of the 9th Objections to the Parole

Field officers of the 9th Regiment of Foot sent their complaints against the implementation of the Articles of Convention after the Battle of Saratoga. Date inferred from other documents in this collection listing the complaints of other British...

GLC04764.42