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[Note on a missionary]

Index says the note is in General Burgoyne's hand. Initialed "JB" at the top. Says: "To be attended to: Joshua Wingate Weeks of Marblehead Missionary from the Society for propagat[ing] the gospel -" Weeks was a Royalist Anglican minister kicked out...

GLC04764.81

to William Eden

Written a month before Germain became Secretary of State for the Colonies to Eden as Deputy Secretary of State for the Northern Department. Recipeint was a inferred by Donald Londahl-Smidt. See collateral file for full explanation. References Eden's...

GLC04783

[Congressional resolution denying the flag of truce to British Peace Commissioners]

Denies the use of flags of truce to "nefarious" British peace commissioners who abused the privilege to disseminate "under the sanction of a Flag certain seditious Papers under the name and title of Manifestoes...with a view to stir up dissentious...

GLC04805

New Hampshire Revolutionary War documents, mainly dealing with draft, militia

1. King George III. D: Portsmouth, N.H. 4 November 1769. Legal writ to the sheriff of New Hampshire ordering the seizure of Richard Perkins for appearance in court. 1p. + docket + endorsement.

2. State of New Hampshire. D: Hillsborough, [N.H.]...

GLC03657

[Legal writ to Sheriff of New Hampshire]

This document is a printed mandate made in the name of King George III. It was written and signed in Portsmouth, N.H on 4 November 1769. It is a legal writ to the sheriff of New Hampshire ordering the seizure of Richard Perkins for appearance in...

GLC03657.01

An Act for the Raising and Compleating the State's Quota for the Continental Army.

This document is an Act passed in the State of New Hampshire. It is an Act for the raising and completing this state's quota of the Continental Army. This document includes a list of the districts within the scope of the Act's requests and numbers...

GLC03657.02

An Act in addition to, and alteration of an Act passed the twelth day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, entitled An Act for Raising and Compleating the State's Quota for the Continental Army.

This document accompanying an Act passed in the State of New Hampshire. It is an alteration to an Act for the raising and completing this state's quota of the Continental Army. It allows towns and counties to muster men for their quotas in whatever...

GLC03657.03

An Act in addition to Two several Acts of this State passed since the commencement of the present year for raising and filling up the State's Quota of the Continental Army.

This document is an Act in addition to two several Acts of this state passed since the commencement of the present year for raising and filling up this state's quota of the Continental Army. It mentions the Act passed on 12 January 1781 and further...

GLC03657.04

An Act for preventing the subjects of His Britannic Majesty and all other persons inimical to the United States of North America, from prosecuting Actions, serving as Jurors, or acting as town officers within this State.

This document consists of various Acts that are passed to prevent the inhabitants of Great Britain from committing acts inimical to the United States of America. In summary, they attempt to prevent British officials from holding office or influencing...

GLC03657.05

An Act for raising and compleating this State's Quota of the Continental Army

This document is an Act for raising and completing this state's quota of the Continental Army. It includes an updated list of towns and counties with numbers of men to be mustered from each, including those which are considered "delinquent" and have...

GLC03657.06

A Schedule containing an account of the services of the militia, from 1775 to 1783.

A schedule containing an account of the services of the militia, from 1775 to 1783. Records movements and stations throughout the months between the aforementioned years. Begins with the battle of Lexington in 1775.

GLC03657.07

Recieved Account of Bounties Paid by Said town to Soldiers in the corps of the Late War

This document is the received amount of bounties paid by said town to soldiers in the course of the late war.

GLC03657.08

to Henry Knox

Writes a very detailed letter to her husband in Morristown, New Jersey during the American Revolution. Discusses the arrival in Boston of General Charles Tronson du Coudray, a French military engineer "who stiles himself Commander in Chief of the...

GLC05895

to John Page

Written by Rittenhouse, a well-known astronomer and instrument maker, as Pennsylvania state treasurer to Page as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. References Page's letter of 25 March 1777. Thanks him sending his observations on the eclipse of the...

GLC05974

to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

States that Mr. Aspden, a merchant in Philadelphia, is now in Annapolis and is soliciting passage home with the British Governor of Maryland, Robert Eden. Asks that the Council of Safety promote his passage if possible. Postscript remarks upon his...

GLC05982

to William Alexander

Laurens, a Continental Congressman, informs General Alexander, Earl of Stirling, of a "packet" from Admiral Gambier (possibly James Gambier). States that the packet pertains to "Lieut. Hale & others who were Shipwrecked in a Vessel on the Jersey...

GLC06194

Address to those... people called Quakers

Calls upon them to join together and bear arms during the Revolution. Printed by Francis Bailey.

GLC06257

An Address to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania, by those freemen, of the city of Philadelphia, who are now confined in the Mason's lodge.

Title continues: "by virtue of a general warrant, signed in council by the Vice President of the council of Pennsylvania." Signed on p. 52 by Pemberton and twenty-one others. Includes copies of orders of the Supreme Executive Council, remonstrances...

GLC06258

to John Neilson

Informs that he has received a letter from General Philomen Dickinson transmitting a warning about a British plan of attack against Continental General Putnam and Colonel Neilson. Someone overheard that Cortlandt Skinner, a Tory officer and...

GLC06307.01

Proclamation. [calling for loyal colonists to help the British Army]

Burgoyne's famous proclamation at the beginning of his ill-fated campaign. Using threats to prevent support for American troops. "I have but to stretch the Indian forces under my direction... to overtake the hardened enemies of Great Britain and...

GLC06309

Forwarding a memorial of the Six Nations [Iroquois] to the British

Document requesting compensation from the British for the loss of their lands in the United States during the Revolutionary War. "That in consideration of the loyal attachment and exertions of the Six Nations in his Majesty's service during the...

GLC06763

Supplement to the Pennsylvania Ledger no. 54

The supplement concerns the attack by British fleet near Newport, RI. Reports from Providence and Newport. The Ledger was a British Tory newspaper, only printed during the occupation of Philadelphia.

GLC06954

to William Smallwood

Communicates to General Smallwood a resolution by the Continental Congress in response to a petition from citizens in Somerset and Worcester counties in Maryland. The resolution orders Smallwood to help "suppress the Tories in the counties of...

GLC06502

to William Smallwood

Written at Camp Ashley Hill. Major Roxburgh updates General Smallwood on Anthony Wayne's success in evacuating in evacuating Savannah, Georgia of British troops: "The enemy have evacuated Savannah and are so distressed for shipping that the garrison...

GLC06508.07

to William Whipple

Written by and co-signed by Samuel Freeman, Secretary of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. Signed by Warren as president pro tempore of the Provincial Congress to Whipple, who would later sign the Declaration of Independence, as Chairman of...

GLC06516