1763/06/17

Brown, Benjamin, fl. 1763-1764

Header Record

Title: to Volckert Dow, with DS Certificate 12/2/1763, re: Ft. Ontario

Written about Fort Stanwix

GLC01450.331

1745/11/08

Williams, William, 1731-1811

Document signed

Title: List of supplies

GLC01450.339

1745/11/19

Williams, William, 1731-1811

Document signed

Title: re: charges for nursing & tending sick in Col. John Choate's Regiment.

GLC01450.340

1745/11/19

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Document signed

Title: re: tending the sick. (naval) (cos. Wm Williams and Jason Monk)

GLC01450.341

1757/07/11

Lithgow, William, fl. 1757

Document signed

Title: re: accounting of sundries & supplies to tend the sick.

GLC01450.342

1748/02/21

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Document signed

Title: re: orders payment for transportation of troops.

Signed as governor of Massachusetts

GLC01450.343

1744/06/13

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Document signed

Title: Orders troops to protect "His Majesty's subjects" on the Western frontiers.

GLC01450.344

1752/11/03

Sheffield, James, fl. 1752

Document signed

Title: Invoice for cleaning guns

GLC01450.346

1765/11/01

Turnbull, George, fl. 1765

Document signed

Title: Report of troop return.

GLC01450.351

1748/08/02

Document signed

Title: Receipt for billeting soldiers for Canadian expedition

GLC01450.412.02

1756/03/03

Anson, George, fl. 1755-1756

Document signed

Title: British impressment order to Capt Powlett, signed as Lord High Admiral

Countersigned by John Cleveland.

GLC01450.412.13

1755/02/26

Clark, Abraham, 1726-1794

Autograph document

Title: An Act for making provisions for the subsistence of his Majesty's Forces during their march through this colony and for providingcarriages for transporting their baggage

The act provided for subsistence and transport for British forces. It is in Clark's hand, with signatures by J. Betcher (Governor) and others. Second page is docketed on verso on the same date as creation. Both pages are bound at the top by a red ribbon that remains intact.

GLC01450.524

1761/04/08

Bernard, Francis, 1712-1779

Broadside

Title: Francis Bernard, Esq.; Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England, and Vice-Admiral of the same. A Proclamation for a general Fast.

A proclamation in the name of Francis Bernard, Governor of Massachusetts Bay, which announces a day of fasting during the French & Indian War. The top of the document is marked with a printed Royal engraving that contains the notation "Dieu et Mondroit", meaning 'God and my right'. The engraving recognizes King George III and his divine right. The document was printed in Boston by John Draper. On verso there is a handwriten note "Fast April 22, 1761" in the upper right corner.

GLC01450.534

February 28, 1757

Wentworth, Benning, fl. 1757

Document signed

Title: [Proclamation concerning raising troops in New Hampshire]

Promotes voluntary enlistment in order to raise troops to serve on the western frontiers of the New England governments and to prevent the further encroachment of the French. Lists what each volunteer will receive in terms of salary and equipment. Wentworth is listed as a "Captain General and Commander in his Majesties' Province of New Hampshire." On verso are dated notes made by a soldier, Ebenezer Eatton, recording marching activities. Note by Eatton states that he enlisted 9 March 1757.

GLC01450.545

1760/03/31

Delancey, James, 1703-1760

Document signed

Title: to James Clinton, re: enlisting troops to attack Canada

Signed as Lieutenant Gov. of New York.

GLC01450.653

1769/09/30

Butler, Richard, 1743-1791

Document signed

Title: [Certificate of account]

A certificate affirming that a document is a "True Copy" of an account made two years earlier by a man named John Mitchell. The certificate was signed at Fort Pitt, a key cite during the French and Indian War. Countersigned by William Christie.

GLC01541.05

1746 ca.

Topsfield & Worcester, fl. 1746

Header Record

Title: Collection of 13 Massachusetts documents, re: French & Indian War [Decimalized .01- .13]

A number of warrants/orders regarding arms and training. Petition to move training Order to arrest a deserter Order to rally troops and march them List of soldiers

GLC01450.248

1759/06/04

Bradstreet, John, 1714-1774

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Order to pay Robert Livingston 576 pounds]

Bradstreet, a British officer, orders Abraham W. Cortin, a temporary deputy paymaster general, to make the payment, which was owed for "Sundries supplied for His Majesty's service" during the French and Indian War. A note signed by Livingston below the order states that the payment should be made to Dirck Jansen. A note signed my Jansen on the verso indicates the payment was received on 8 August 1759.

GLC01450.275

1749/04/20

Cutler, Timothy, fl. 1749

Document signed

Title: Attestation that the widow of a surgeon serving under William Pepperell is still alive and without a pension.

GLC01450.305

1756/07/08

Hardy, Charles, fl. 1716-1780

Document signed

Title: Calls for an audit of the accounts of General Shirley's Command in North America.

GLC01450.307

1757/08/11

Leonard, Ephraim, 1730-?

Document signed

Title: Muster roll

Date appears on verso

GLC01450.311

1759? ca.

Manuscript

Title: Poem, "Come Soldiers All" re: battle on Plains of Abraham

GLC01450.314

1761/09/15

Hamilton, Otho, fl. 1761

Autograph document signed

Title: Certificate for provisions supplied to troops by the Lt. Governor.

GLC01450.315

1757/08/11

Leonard, Ephraim, 1730-?

Autograph document signed

Title: [Notice to Joseph Hall, "Captain of a military foot Company in the Town of Taunton"]

In accordance with an order from the Governor of Massachusetts, Colonel Leonard tells Hall to have his company armed and in a state of readiness to march to defend the frontiers of the province from the French and Indians encamped at Fort William Henry. Written during the Seven Year's War.

GLC01450.199.01

1774/01/25

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript document signed

Title: Bill for surveying and patenting land grant French & Indian War

Document signed for claim against James Ludlow with another Washington document, cosigned by William Crawford 2/25/1774, assigning the debt to Crawford.

GLC01963