1777-1780

Header Record

Title: [Seven Revolutionary War receipts and documents] [Decimalized .01- .07]

Dated 28 December 1777, 11 July 1778, 11 July 1778, 9 January 1779, 19 March 1779, 24 February 1780, and 29 Sptember [no year].

GLC01450.231

February 12, 1760

Waldo, Sam, fl. 1760

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for hiring a whale boat during the French and Indian War]

Tallies various charges, including hiring the boat "to got to the Relief of St. Georges when attacked by the French and Indians."

GLC01450.232.01

November 23, 1780

Davis, Caleb, 1738-1797

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elbridge Gerry

Docketed in Elbridge Gerry's hand. Reminds Gerry that he has an "appointment upon a Committee to devise ways & means to supply the treasury to pay this Commonwealth's Quota of the army and other Exigencies of Government." This committee is to sit "until the bussiness is perfect." Also requests "your attendance as a Member of this house, as also to discharge the duties in consequence of your appointment yesterday." Letter signed by Davis as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

GLC01450.233

June 12, 1776

Wendell, John, 1731-1808

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elbridge Gerry

Wendell asks Gerry to use his political influence to help place him in a number of governmental positions. Says that he is confident he can attain the position of "Vendue Master" if Gerry can get him a favorable letter from the President. Also mentions his own powerful friends. He views Canada as integral to American success, though hears events are going poorly there. Letter is tipped onto a border.

GLC01450.234

June 16, 1776

Freeman, Samuel, 1743-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elbridge Gerry

On Gerry's advice, Freeman and his regiment "have applied to Court to consider our losses at Falmouth," in the hopes the court would petition Congress. The court refuses, and feels it might seem "selfish" to do such a thing. Discusses trouble obtaining copies of records of Congress.

GLC01450.235

November 17, 1778

Flood, Stephen, fl. 1778

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Hewins

Worries that some back home believe he has defected to the British side. Feels he has "as good a right as others" to the "town Bounty" this year, and asks Hewins to obtain the money and send it to him. Letter addressed to Hewins as "Treasurer of the Committee of Stoughtonham," today called Sharon, Massachusetts. A note, seemingly written later but in the same hand, states that the money should instead be sent to Levit Billings.

GLC01450.236

1775-1778

Header Record

Title: [Decimalized .01-.02]

Dated December 22, 1775, April 24, 1778.

GLC01450.237

October 31, 1778

Burnet, Ichabod, fl. 1778-1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ephriam Bowen

Burnet reminds Bowen that he must send the clothing supplies already requested, as they are badly needed by himself and General Nathanael Greene. Greene was Quartermaster General at the time of this letter. Ichabod Burnet was Greene's personal aide, and issued many of his supply orders. The recipient is listed in the text as "Colonel Bowen." This almost certainly refers to Ephriam Bowen, the Deputy Quartermaster-General of the Rhode Island Militia, since the letter refers to supplies coming from Providence, Rhode Island.

GLC01450.238

1777-1779

Header Record

Title: Documents related to the Revolutionary War [Decimalized .01-.02]

See decimalized entries.

GLC01450.239

April 13, 1777

Elderklin, Vine, fl. 1776-1810

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Selectmen of Coventry

Letter written by Elderkin as Captain in 7th Connecticut Regiment to the Selectmen of Coventry, Connecticut. Requests the selectmen furnish John Bill and Samuel Bardain, two soldiers in his company, with guns, bayonets, cartridge boxes, and blankets. Wants them to be equipped according to the Act of the Governor and Council of Safety. On the second page, two identical notes written in the same hand in Coventry on April 15, 1777 state that they were supplied. Bardain and Bill each signed one of the notes. Various figures are added up on the page as well. Elderkin resigned his commission on…

GLC01450.240

May 1776

Hosmer, Titus, 1736-1780

Autograph document signed

Title: [Approving payment to Constable of Hartford John Dodd for various supplies]

Hosmer signed as clerk. It lists the items Dodd was paid for, the last being for "14 Days tending the General Assembly." Dodd signed the verso in a note indicating his receipt of the payment on 11 June 1776.

GLC01450.241.01

15 April 1777

Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for Captain Vine Elderkin]

Signed by Ellsworth as a member of the Connecticut Pay-Table Committee. To Connecticut Treasurer Jonathan Lawrence. Receipt says to pay Captain Elderkin over 83 pounds for the various expenses to treat the illnesses in his company in Colonel Mott's regiment. Note on verso says the money was received on 15 April 1777 and is signed by Nathaniel Webb. Docket says the payment was audited on 1 September 1777 by J. Treadwell. Related to GLC01450.240.

GLC01450.241.02

24 October 1781

Wadsworth, Fenn, fl. 1778

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Pay order for William Williams]

Docketed by Williams. Countersigned by Eleazer Wales and by Jedediah Huntington. Order to pay colonel William Williams seven pounds seven schillings, with tax of one penny per pound, and "charge the state." From the "Pay Table Office" Signed by Finn Wadsworth and Eliazer Wales as the committee, and across their names Jedediah Huntington has signed. To John Lawrence as treasurer. Verso signed by Williams stating he recieved the contents. William Williams was a signer of the Decleration of Independance and a Representative from Connecticut. He was a colonel in the Connecticut militia, but…

GLC01450.241.03

1 November 1779

Brown, Andrew, ?-1797

Document signed

Title: [A muster roll of Capt. Claps Company]

Muster roll for of Captain Lemuel Clap's company in the Massachusetts Guard. Lists name, rank, and enlistment date of men in the regiment. Almost all the men enlisted 11 August, though some later. A third of the men in the company are named Clap. Andrew Brown signs as Commishioner of Musters. Captain Lemuel Clap and Lieutenant Aaron Bird swear to the document by signing. Signed before John Avery, who signs as justice of the peace. Also a list by rank of the number of men present and absent. Written in Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

GLC01450.241.04

October 21, 1782

Allen, Paul, 1742-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Asa Waterman

Allen informs Waterman of the return of "our Brother Capt Joseph Cashman." Says Mr. Cushing's child "the sicked child that ever I saw." News arrived from Newfoundland of the "Royal George" sinking in port, and 1,300 people dying. Around eight hundred people actually died when the ship sank in Spithead, England. Indians are reporting that the French have taken three British ships of the line. Refers to Allen as his "brother."

GLC01450.242

1757-1781

Header Record

Title: [Receipts and account book] [Decimalized .01-.06]

See decimalized entries.

GLC01450.243

March 1764 - February 1767

Clarke, Joseph, 1719-1792

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Account book of the General Treasurer of Rhode Island]

Records sums paid out by Clarke, mostly for soldiers pay during the French & Indian War. Signed by various recipients. Many blank sheets.

GLC01450.244.01

April 22, 1746

Wingate, Joshua, 1710-1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Major Stevens

Colonel Wingate informs Stevens that he has sent him the Governor's Warrant and prays Stevens will protect the frontiers, as ordered. Indicates that he has sent Stevens seven soldiers from Hampton, Massachusetts, ready "to march to Cantrebery," and asks Stevens to find three more.

GLC01450.245

June 1756 - July 1756

Shirley, William, 1694-1771

Manuscript document

Title: [Report issued to Massachusetts Governor William Shirley on military activities during the French and Indian War]

Reports on military-related activities, mostly paying allowances, but also retaliating against Indians, detaching men to march against Fort George, and incidents relating to injuries and sickness.

GLC01450.246

1758

Pamphlet

Title: Remarks on ... the opinion of one

In original paper covers Written at the offices of Edes and Gill- now a museum

GLC01450.247

1755-1757

Winslow, Joshua, 1727-1801

Header Record

Title: Correspondence to Daniel Pierce, 2-3 p. each re: French & Indian War

Relating to French & Indian War and Boston activity

GLC01450.249

August 22, 1755

Fitch, Thomas, 1700-1774

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to William Johnson

Fitch informs Major General Johnson that he ordered "Raising the five Hundred Men voted by the Assembly of this Colony to Re Enforce the Troops under your Command." Indicates that the Assembly will meet next in Hartford to consider further action. Expects Johnson not to wait for the reinforcements and instead have them meet on the road. Also expects the knowledge of forthcoming support will buoy his men.

GLC01450.250.02

May 19, 1746

Skone, John, fl. 1746

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Vernon

Offering to Sam Vernon, and others in Newport, with tinware, brass, copper, muskets, blunderbusses, and furniture.

GLC01450.251

October 10, 1759

Browne, John, fl. 1759

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Cushing

Discusses providing a letter and other support for Reverend Cushing's son to work for their "Kinsman Nat. Cotton" in England. He writes that "We are all filled with Joy at the Unexpected News of the Conquest of Canada," referring to the British victory at the Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War in September 1759.

GLC01450.252

20 March 1748

Greene, William, 1696-1758

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for branding iron]

Patrick Chambers signs, acknowledging that payment was made "for making & Cutting a Branding Iron for Sealing Measures for the Colony of Rhode Island." Greene, Governor of Rhode Island, orders Thomas Richardson, Rhode Island Treasurer, to pay Edward Thurston (possibly the creator of the iron) three pounds from the General Treasury.

GLC01450.253