1782

Massachusetts Assembly

Header Record

Title: Printed resolutions regarding recruiting and clothing [Decimalized .01-.02]

See decimalized entries.

GLC01450.602

1775-1783

Header Record

Title: Collection of documents related to Captain Morgan Lewis [Decimalized .01-.15]

GLC01450.603

20 July 1781

Porter, William, fl. 1781

Manuscript signed

Title: [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 others), recruits, and casualties.

GLC01450.605

1782-1783

Massachusetts Bay Council

Broadsheet

Title: Printed circular unsigned re: collecting taxes, mentions Robert Morris

Headed "(Circular Letter.)" Discusses the need to provide state financial support to Congress for provisioning for the army. Comments on the problems with their currency created after the Revolution began. Describes the moment and obligation as "one of those great occasions which calls on the good people of the Commonwealth to give proof of the sincerity of past engagements--a proof far more substantial and decisive than any verbal declarations whatever." Indicates that the "notes of the National Bank and the Official Notes of the honorable Robert Morris, Esq; will be received as money…

GLC01450.606

24 June 1782

Shilbaugh, Christopher, fl. 1782

Document signed

Title: [Hessian muster roll] [In French]

Hessian regiments of the "Grenadiers Lieutenant General Charquis d'Angelleli" 25 December 1781- 24 June 1782. Signed by [Shielhause?] as Captain Lieutenant, F. W. Book as Major, and J. G. Endemann as Lieutenant Colonel and Commander.

GLC01450.607

23 April 1775

Warren, Joseph, 1741-1775

Manuscript

Title: [Resolution of Provincial Congress of Watertown for enlistments]

Clerical copy with signature of Joseph Warren, as President Pro Tempore, in the secretary's hand. Document refers to "the Recovery and preservation of our undoubted Rights and Liberties." Delineates pay scale of various ranks in the army, says a coat and uniform be given to each solider, also says town must provide blankets and miscellaneous supplies. Bottom of document says "True Coppy of the original." Repairs made where document was folded.

GLC01450.608

1775-1780

Header Record

Title: Receipts of payment from the State of Connecticut [Decimalized .01-.21]

Most of the receipts in this collection pertain to payment for post riding.

GLC01450.609

1779-1781

Leavitt, Jacob, 1740-1826

Manuscript signed

Title: [Receipt book]

Leavitt records transactions for mugs of drink, tea, rum, wine, meal sugar, chocolate, milk, eggs, and other goods. Leavitt calls this manuscript a day book.

GLC01450.611

March 17, 1777

Butts, Thomas, fl. 1777

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his cousin

Butts is glad to be back in England, where thinking is not a crime worthy of tar and feathering. Butts left Gravesend, New York on the ship "Thomas" on July 17, 1776. Gives account of his attempted voyage to England. Says they had an uneventful journey until the 9th week, when they met a 70 ton sloop that easily caught up to them because of the bad sailing condition of the "Thomas." The sloop raised the Union Jack and said they were sailing from Virginia under the orders of Lord Dunmore to stop Americans from fishing on the banks. They wanted the Captain, a man named Bell, to take his boat…

GLC01450.613

January 28, 1777

Robb, Robert, fl. 1777

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Oath by a loyalist parolee during the American Revolution]

Witnessed by George Cochran and William Lyon, a member of the Pennsylvania committee of safety. The oath of a loyalist named Robert Robb pledges non-aggression and loyalty to the cause of the United States. The second page is a bond holding the property of Robert Robb, David Robb, and James Smith, for Robb's parole, signed by Lyon by order of the Committee of Safety.

GLC01450.615

28 July 1780

Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Lieutenant Zibeon Hooker]

Document names Zibeon Hooker as a lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of Foot, in one of the fifteen battalions raised in Massachusetts to serve in the Continental Army under Colonel Rufus Putnam. Signed by John Avery, Secretary of State of Massachusetts and James Bowdoin as President of the Council.

GLC01450.616.01

1 January 1776

Whitcomb, Asa, 1719-1804

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Zibeon Hooker as sergeant]

Appoints Zibeon Hooker a first sergeant in the "Sixth Regiment of the Foot in the Continental Army." Signed by Whitcomb as Colonel in the Continental Army. Partially printed.

GLC01450.616.02

March 3, 1777

Samuel Barrett & Co., (manufacturers), fl. 1777

Letter

Title: to unknown

Discusses the firm's acquirement of barrels of wines and spirits and the fluctuating price of such goods. Mentions Mr. Hopkins. Reports that in the south ward, these goods "would fetch double the Money as soon as the restraining Bill is repeald (which will be done immediately)." Discusses the importation of rice and flour, and the removal of these goods to the recipient's storehouses (which he calls magazines). In case of an enemy attack on Boston, intends to store goods in ports which may still be free, such as Sherburne, Sudbury, Worcester, or Springfield, Massachusetts. Awaits the…

GLC01450.617

July 22, 1780

Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles Pettit

Clement Biddle writes in earnest to the Colonel Pettit, the assistant quartermaster, about the status of money urgently needed to procure supplies for an upcoming campaign.

GLC01450.618

May 25, 1779

Wharton, James, 1732-1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Taylor

Wharton sends copies of letters he wrote Taylor on April 9, 1779 and May 17, 1779, to which Taylor has not responded. Wharton urgently requested ammunition for frigates. Taylor worked with Hugh Hughes' ironworks in New Jersey.

GLC01450.620

October 15, 1776

Duset, Philemon, fl. 1776

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Allyn

Duset informs Allyn that he is sick, and asks for that his coat be sent to him. Letter written at "Camp near Kingsbridge" in Bronx, New York.

GLC01450.621

1781, 1862

Header Record

Title: Appointment of Stephen Griffin and print of George Clinton [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC01450.623

December 6, 1797

Lamarquisie, Bernard M., fl. 1797

Letter signed

Title: to the Society of Cincinnati

Letters to the Society of Cincinnati asking for aid. Lamarquisie (also "de la Marquisie"), a Frenchman who had served as a captain of engineers in the Continental Army, asks the Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati for financial aid. The former officer, "persecuted in France during the Revolution," writes that he needs money to travel from Boston to Philadelphia, in order to pursue his memorial before Congress. The first letter, a summary of his military service during the Revolutionary War, includes mention of his journey to Canada with American commissioners Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase…

GLC01450.624

May 1793

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Manuscript document signed

Title: The Offices of the Massachusetts Line

This document is a May 1793 account signed by Treasurer Henry Jackson with lists of payments to and from "The Officers of the Massachusetts Line". Along with this document is a note citing a payment of 214 dollars, "subscribed by a number of officers of the Line" to General William Hull. The general had been appointed by his fellow officers in the spring of 1792 to press a memorial to Congress requesting further compensation for Revolutionary War veterans. The note is attached to the debit report with a wax seal. These documents are stored in Size 1, Box 31.

GLC01450.627.01.01

1778

Goodwin, Nathaniel, 1748-1819

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Diary kept in "Bickerstaff's New-England Almanack"]

Goodwin, a Major in Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment, writes "while at Boston" across the title page of the almanac. Includes entries from other locations. Contains 22 pages of printed text, 7 pages of handwritten text. Relates traveling to Bedford and Salem. Mentions the Lucy, possibly a ship. Discusses the weather and a French naval fleet. Writes that Major General Horatio Gates assumed command of the Eastern Department (November 1778). In December, states that his entire detachment was discharged from duty based on Gates's orders. Bickerstaff's New England Almanack was published in…

GLC01450.629

1785-1787

Rodney, Thomas, 1744-1811

Autograph document

Title: [Defense of the Society of Cincinnati's policy of hereditary membership]

Rodney decries alarmists who condemn the Society of Cincinnati for creating an American aristocracy: "Such an Aristocracy as this founded on Meritorious Service to their country, I wish to see our Community ever blest with."

GLC01450.631

circa 1783

Header Record

Title: Certificate of discharge for Jonathan Mury and anchor button [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC01450.655

April 26, 1806

Kiteridge, Peter, 1750-?

Letter signed

Title: to Gentlemen

Statement by Peter Kiteridge to Medfield's selectmen for financial assistance. One document written by Peter Kiteridge dated April 26, 1806. Details that he was born to African parents in Boston. Kiteridge at the time of this document is a freeman, and requests financial assistance from the Medfield's selectmen. Provides information between the time that he was enslaved, to serving in the military and later as a sailor. Requests assistance from Medfield's Selectmen in supporting his wife and four children, claiming that none of the children are old enough to aid him in supporting the family…

GLC01450.702

June 20, 1779

Beckman, Ijerich, fl. 1779

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

The letter discusses marching to attack Iroquois Indians and burning villages.

GLC01450.801

July 14, 1777

Bachellor, William, 1749-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Hudson

Discusses the chemistry Dr. Boerhaav and determines there is "No process in which the purging Salts are made that is practicable at this Time." Transcribes a long passage from a book explaining how to make salt cartharticum.

GLC01450.802