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31 May 1781
Morgan, Ephraim, fl. 1776-1783
[Receipt for 1410 pounds of flour]
Morgan, the Quartermaster for the Connecticut line during the American Revolution, notes his receipt of the flour "for the use of the Connt Division."
GLC01450.412.03
5 September 1777
Helme, R.J., fl. 1768-1778
[Order to pay Timothy Coffin 103 pounds, 11 shillings]
Witnessed and signed by Helm as clerk. Ordered by the Rhode Island Council of War so that Coffin could pay the portage bill of the Sloop Diamond for a voyage to South Carolina. A note signed by Coffin on the verso attests to his receipt. Surname...
GLC01450.412.05
6 September 1777
Spear, Gersham, fl. 1777
[Receipt for 200 barrel hoops]
Needed for the making of powder barrels during the American Revolution, priced at six shillings per hundred hoops. With a signed (with a mark) note indicating Thomas Frace received the hoops from the commissary, Samuel Hodgdon.
GLC01450.412.10
13 November 1782
Drake, William, fl. 1782
[Private signals for British vessels to identify one another at sea by day and night]
Provides very specific instructions for identification procedures. Written on board the H.M.S. Perseus. Written to Captain George Darby, commander of the sloop Pylades. Based on the command of Admiral Leonard Horner.
GLC01450.412.16
1 March 1782
Massachusetts House of Representatives
[Printed resolution of recruitment schedule]
1,500 men are needed for the "Massachusetts Line." Lists quota required from each town. Also resolves that a tax will be imposed if these quotas are not met. A few handwritten calculations in the margins.
[Pages 1-4 are present, but the document...
GLC01450.430
23 July 1777
Clapp, Jonathan, ?-1815
[Return of Major Jonathan Clapp's Regiment]
Docketed 19 March 1779 by David Lyman. Lyman states that Captain [Hampten?] is to pay John Lyman $50, and to charge the sum to David Lyman. Contains several other dockets, notes, and mathematical figures on verso.
GLC01450.435.01
26 April 1775
Blaney, Aaron, 1745-1824
[Receipt for 120 pounds of bread and 140 pounds of pork]
Deputy Commissary Blaney indicates that the food was received from Captain Jabez Ellis "for the use of the Provincial Troops Station'd in Roxbury."
GLC01450.436.01
1775-1783
Ellis, Jabez, 1733-1808
Capt. Ellis's Class their Proportion of Silver Money Given to their Soldier as annexed to their Names
Lists soldiers and the amount of silver and paper money they received. Travel costs are listed on the verso. Signed by Ellis on the verso.
GLC01450.436.03
January 1780
Greenleaf, Moses, 1755-1812
[Records of court martial of Samuel Shattuck]
Record of the court martial trial of Sergeant Samuel Shattuck. Lists other men set to stand trial, and gives details of Shattucks case. Includes tesstimony of two witnesses who testified that Shattuck knowingly left the service before his time was...
GLC01450.438
25 November 1776
Cooke, Nicholas, 1717-1782
[Certificate establishing Joseph Hopkins as ensign of a state militia regiment]
Signed by Cooke as Governor of Rhode Island. Signed by Henry Ward, Secretary of Rhode Island. Docket indicates that Hopkins was an ensign in Captain Malachi Hammet's Company.
GLC01450.444.01
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