circa 1760-1785

Sylvester, Deborah, fl. 1760-1785

Manuscript document

Title: [Weaving pattern]

Date inferred from Sylvester's journal (GLC01144.01). Includes columns and rows containing numbers.

GLC01144.02.05

circa 1760-1785

Sylvester, Deborah, fl. 1760-1785

Manuscript document

Title: [Weaving pattern]

Date inferred from Sylvester's journal (GLC01144.01). Includes columns and rows containing numbers. Below the pattern, Sylvester writes "The Border of Said Civerled."

GLC01144.02.06

circa 1760-1785

Sylvester, Deborah, fl. 1760-1785

Manuscript document

Title: [Weaving pattern]

Date inferred from Sylvester's journal (GLC01144.01). Includes columns and rows containing numbers. Above the pattern, Sylvester writes "The Draft of a Civerled."

GLC01144.02.07

circa 1760-1785

Sylvester, Deborah, fl. 1760-1785

Manuscript document

Title: [Weaving pattern]

Date inferred from Sylvester's journal (GLC01144.01). Includes columns and rows containing numbers.

GLC01144.02.08

9 October 1778

Document signed

Title: [Return of Captain Simon Edgel's Company]

Possibly for Edgel's Framingham, Massachusetts Company. States that Edgel's Company is part of Colonel Jacob's Regiment, possibly referring to John Jacobs. Includes a chart indicating different positions held within the company, but no numbers are indicated.

GLC01450.219.02

circa 1777

Clapp, Jonathan, ?-1815

Document signed

Title: The commissary for the Northern department to the Officers of Major Clapp's Regiment of Massachusetts Militia

Date inferred due to this document's similarity to GLC01450.435.01. Lists officers' names, rank, days in service, and ration allowance, among other items. Clapp signs at the bottom of the page, certifying that "the several Officers above named actually served under my Command in the Northern Department agreeable to the several ranks and time above mentioned during which time they have drawn no more Provisions from the Publick stores than what is given Credit for in the foregoing Ration Accounts." Requests the recipient to pay Quarter Master Benjamin Clapp for the cost of rations.

GLC01450.435.02

4 June 1776

Wyer, William, fl. 1776

Document signed

Title: [List of expenses regarding the construction of a fort at Plum Island]

Lists expenses for such items as sugar, an apprentice, pork, and labor. Docket states "Capt Wyers Bill Settled part."

GLC01450.459.01

7 June 1776

Moody, John, 1750-?

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for the payment of John Moody]

Captain William Coombs and others on a Newburyport committee pay Moody for work completed in May and June 1776 related to the construction of a fort on Plum Island. Moody receives payment for such items as work with oxen (used to haul timber), bushels of corn, and hay for oxen. Moody attests that the sums listed have been paid in full. Docket states "Jn Moodys Bill part."

GLC01450.459.02

June 1776

Coombs, William, 1736-1814

Document signed

Title: [Receipt regarding Captain Edward Wiggleworth]

Possibly created in Newburyport. Coombs signs for a list of expenses for items such as travel and overnight lodging. States that he received the amount cited for Captain Wiggleworth. Docket states "Captain Wiggleworths Bill."

GLC01450.459.03

20 February 1775

Greenleaf, Jonathan, 1723-1807

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for Jonathan Greenleaf]

Receipt for Jonathan Greenleaf from town of Newburyport, "for fourteen days travel and attendance at Congress at Cambridge." Verso signed by Greenleaf, stating payment was received.

GLC01450.460.01

February 21, 1777

Manuscript document

Title: [Receipt for Moses Nowell]

Receipt for Moses Nowell from Town of Newburyport for provisioning workmen.

GLC01450.460.02

September 7, 1776

Marsh, Jonathan, ?-1825

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to William Price

Marsh orders Price to inform all eligible voters to meet and vote on whether to allow the state to use the town's cannons. Letter signed by Greenleaf, Marsh and Little as the selectmen of Newburyport. Verso signed by Price, and states he has informed the townspeople.

GLC01450.460.03

February 7, 1777

Dalton, Tristram, 1738-1817

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to William Price

Dalton orders Price to inform all eligible voters to attend a meeting about fulfilling the town's enlistment quota and about cannons given to the state. Letter signed by Greenleaf, Marsh and Dalton as the selectmen of Newburyport. Verso signed by Price, and states he has informed the townspeople.

GLC01450.460.04

28 April 1777

Titcomb, Jonathan, 1728-1817

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for Town of Newburyport]

Receipt for Town of Newburyport from "The State of the Massachusetts Bay" to be paid to Jonathan Dole for expenses incurred while caring for Enoch Wing when he had the smallpox. Singed by Moses Little, Samuel Tufts and Jonathan Titcomb. Nicholas Pike signs the bottom, dated 22 January 1779, stating that the document was sworn to before him by the selectmen. A separate page is attached certifying that Enoch Wing died of the smallpox, and that the selectmen of Newburyport provided for his care. Signed by Colonel Jonathan Allen as an agent of the state.

GLC01450.460.05

6 January 1778

Greaton, John, 1741-1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Furlough pass for John Kinney]

Permits John Kinney a two month furlough.

GLC01450.460.06

March 1778

Davis, Benjamin, fl. 1776-1778

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for Benjamin Davis]

Receipt for Benjamin Davis from the Town of Newburyport for work, cash, and goods provided. Signed by Davis, dated 8 January 1779, stating he received the full amount.

GLC01450.460.07

March 1778

Perkins, Jane, fl. 1778

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for Jane Perkins]

Receipt for Jane Perkins from the town of Newburyport, for "Boarding & Nursing John Kinney a soldier in the Army of the United States." Kinney died while in her care. Perkins signs with her mark, stating she has received payment.

GLC01450.460.08

August 1, 1778

Parsons, Theodore, fl. 1776-1781

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Bayley

Parsons wishes Bayley to procure bandages, preferably "linnen sheets, partly worn" for him, by orders of General Sullivan. Verso states that Parsons received the sheets, and is signed by Parsons.

GLC01450.460.09

August 3, 1778

Titcomb, Jonathan, 1728-1817

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Selectmen of Newburyport

Titcomb asks the selectmen to provide Doctor Parker Clark with all the bandages he needs for soldiers. Verso signed by Clark, stating he received "2 sheets."

GLC01450.460.10

2 October 1778

Moody, David, fl. 1778-1782

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for bread]

Receipt for "twenty five pounds eight shillings" of bread for soldiers' rations.

GLC01450.460.11

17 August 1780

Ridgway, Samuel, fl. 1780

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for Samuel Ridgway]

Receipt from William Rusell to Samuel Ridgway for repairing a drum. Signed by Ridgway stating he received payment.

GLC01450.460.12

1776-1784

Sawyer, William, 1753-1817

Manuscript signed

Title: [Journal and account book related to the New York campaign of 1776]

The first segment of this manuscript contains lists of officers, troops, and provisions kept by Quartermaster William Sawyer for Colonel Jonathan Brewer's Massachusetts militia regiment serving in New York. Following the military section, there are additional entries by Sawyer from 1780 to 1784, apparently after he returned to civilian life in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Some pages are either partially or completely torn out.

GLC01626.01

15 May 1792

Whitaker, William, 1761-1814

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Deed conveying a church pew in the Plaistow Meeting House to William Sawyer]

William Whitaker certifies that he received a sum of money from William Sawyer for a pew in the Plaistow Meeting House, formerly belonging "to Isaac Snow Late Deceased the pew being the Back Side of the meeting House at the left hand of the pulpit," between the pews of Nathaniel Kimball and Joseph Smith. Also signed by Theodore Cushing and John Brickett. This deed was contained within (but not bound in) GLC01626.01.

GLC01626.02

6 December 1781

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Dundas

Discusses a short visit from their brother George who was in good health but had to return to his ship after one day. Also mentions another brother named Ralph, whose "fate you have learnt four days ago" (Ralph, captain of the Bonetta, was captured by the French at the Battle of Yorktown, see GLC03676.05). Notes that "no official accounts from Cornwallis" had arrived. Claims that the French did not expect this victory, citing as evidence "a Merchant who signed a Contract w. the Fermiers Generaux 6 weeks ago for...half a Million of Tobacco annually. upon the presumption that the Southern…

GLC02549.19

8 January 1781

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Dundas

Notes that he has not informed their mother and father about their brother Ralph, captain of the Bonetta, who had been captured by the French at the Battle of Yorktown (see GLC03676.05). Discusses a possibly scandal involving Ralph and his effort to clear his name. Comments on investigating information in a newspaper article (and getting it retracted) and asking one of George Germain's clerks for information, who told him that they had received a complaint about Ralph and were investigating. He also wrote Commodore Symmond who expressed sympathy with David's effort, but could not help…

GLC02549.20