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19 August 1778
Titcomb, Enoch, 1747-1814
[Retun of Brigadier General Titcomb's brigade]
Lists numbers of commissioned officers, non commissioned officers, and privates. Lists two colonels (Whitney and Wadsworth).
GLC01450.190.05
11 November 1760
Leishman, Andrew, fl. 1760
[Receipt for payment for wages]
Receipt to the Committee of War in Rhode Island for Thomas Howard to receive his wages, which is 9 shillings New York currency, as a member of Major Burkett's Company. Says to pay unto Cornelius Culnon. The receipt also instructs to "deduct the Same...
GLC01450.190.06
29 November 1777
Troup, Robert, 1757-1832
[Permission to return home]
Written by Troup as aide-de-camp of Major General Horatio Gates. This pass gives permission to Captain John Norris of Colonel Samuel Johnson's regiment of militia from the state of Massachusetts Bay to return home with his company after completing...
GLC01450.191.03
15 August 1778
Greene, William, 1731-1809
to William Compton
Written by Greene as Governor of Rhode Island to Compton as Town Sargent of Providence. Greene is informing Compton that he needs assistance in the movement of cannon requested by Major General John Sullivan on Rhode Island. Hopes he can arrange for...
GLC01450.192
1 July 1779
Clarke, Joseph, 1719-1792
[Invoice for Benjamin West for Clarke's "assistance in the Loan and Treasury Office]
Lists expenses from April through July 1779. Clarke was the Rhode Island treasurer.
GLC01450.194.01
18 March 1779
Mitchell, Nathan, 1729-1789
[Attestation for Ebenezer Burgus]
Certifies that Burgus was a "minute man in my Company" was "aquited agreable" in battle and is owed eight schillings.
GLC01450.195.01
July 1781
Ingersoll, Joseph, fl. 1781
[Accounts for Joseph Ingersoll]
Lists payments by "Joseph Ingresoll & Co." to various men. Each man signs attesting that he has recieved money from Ingersoll for various reasons. The payments include buying a number of ships at auction. The ships were the "sloop Bazil...Ship...
GLC01450.195.02
13 August 1776
Townsend, David, 1753-1829
[Attestation of Doctor Dean's health]
Verifies "that Doctor Dean has been innoculated more than three weeks & is free from infection"
GLC01450.195.03
10 February 1783
Sampson, Crocker, ?-1823
[Additional charges against Thomas D. Freeman and James Sawyer]
Lieutenant Sampson sends Major Lemuel Trescott, both of the 7th Massachusetts Regiment, charging Lieutenant Freeman with "breaking his arrest by wearing or appearing in publick Company with a Sword or Hanger" and Ensign Sawyer with "endeavoring in an...
GLC01450.196
17 October 1781
[Summary of troops and equipment surrendered to General Horatio Gates by General John Burgoyne]
An unknown person compiled statistics relative to Burgoyne's surrender to Gates after the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. The scrap of paper is dated in October 1781. Breaks down nationality of the captured soldiers, number of sick and wounded, types and...
GLC01450.197.01
3 June 1783
Hiller, Joseph, 1748-1814
[Customs authorization for John Jacobs and his sloop, the Sally]
Partly printed. Hiller, Collector of Customs for Salem, authorizes Jacobs to take ballast and stores on board. Indicates that the Sally is bound for Saco (present-day Maine).
GLC01450.197.02
1757/08/11
Leonard, Ephraim, 1730-?
[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...
GLC01450.199.01
7 April 1748
Hathaway, Ebenezer, 1718-1791
[Notice to John Godfrey, a Justice of the Peace for Bristol County, Massachusetts]
Also signed by two witnesses, Joseph Read and James Winslow. Notice of a complaint of Captain Ebenezer Hathaway in regard to two soldiers impressed into his company, Thomas Davis and James Chase, who did not show up for their appointed duty.
GLC01450.199.02
circa 1770-1785
Collection of 5 engravings: John Andre, Rogers, Tarleton, Earl of Loudon & J. Sullivan [Decimalized .01-.05]
GLC01450.201
2 November 1776
Ward, Artemas, 1727-1800
to Ebenezer Hancock
Written by Major General Ward as commander of the Eastern Department (he was succeeded by Major General William Heath in March 1777) to Ebenezer Hancock as Deputy Paymaster General of U.S. forces. Order to pay Thomas Urann, Director of the Carpenter...
GLC01450.202
13 June 1777
[Permission for George Hazard]
Permits George Hazzard to pass Fort Trumbull to Fisher's island. Made out to "The Commandg Officer att Fort Trumbull."
GLC01450.203
15 May 1777
Drury, Jotham, 1741-1831
to
Verifies that Reuben Jager and William Crow enlisted in Drury's artillery company in colonel Crane's regiment. States that both men are "foreners from Irland." Both men were reported as foreigners in other official documents. Jager's name spelled...
GLC01450.204.01
22 June 1702
Leonard, Thomas, fl. 1702
Moorey v. Jonah Simon
Justice of the Peace Leonard orders the sheriff of Bristol to attach the goods and person of Jonah Simon. Simon had failed to reimburse Nicholas Moorey 35 shillings for care he rendered to Simon when Simon was sick. Written in the margin of the...
GLC01450.204.03
5 January 1778
Ivers, Thomas, ?-1800
[Receipt for firearms]
States that he recieved fifteen pounds eleven schillings from Colonel Cogswell "for the use and damage of 58 Fire arms & Bayonetts." Written from the "War Office."
GLC01450.205.01
[Receipt for goods on the Brig Sally]
Lists porter, playing cards, and sugar.
GLC01450.205.02
25 November 1776
Wilson, Nathaniel, fl. 1776
[Order to attend a meeting]
Orders the recipient to "repair to the parade by the meeting house" at the specified time and date, in accordance with an act of the General Court. Document co-signed by John Waite and John Johnson. The three men sign as the Selectmen of Falmouth.
GLC01450.207
6 May 1776
Cooke, Nicholas, 1717-1782
[Appointment of John Fiske]
Partially Printed document signed by Cooke as Governor of Rhode Island. Co-signed by Secretary Henry Ward. John Fiske was named a Major in the Second Regiment of militia from the county of Providence. Embossed paper seal with the symbol of Rhode...
GLC01450.209.01
5 July 1778
Eames, Daniel, fl. 1778
[Return for men detached from Captain Daniel Eames's Company]
Created in Hopkington (possibly Hopkinton, Massachusetts). Indicates that men were detached from Eames's Company to serve in Colonel Samuel Bullard's Regiment "to Reinforce the Continental Armey untill the first January next." Lists the names of...
GLC01450.215.01
1 April 1776
Morse, David, 1756-1830
[Request to pay bearer for military service during the American Revolution]
Asks for pay for one month and ten days of enlistment. Signed on the verso by David's father, Pelatiah Morse, who was possibly the bearer.
GLC01450.215.02
1776
Hall & Sellers
[One third of a dollar, No. 307773]
Partly printed document signed by J. Sellers, of Hall & Sellers, Philadelphia printers. The front indicates the money was printed according to a resolution of the Continental Congress passed 17 February 1776. Underneath an icon of a sundial appears...
GLC01450.215.03
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