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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
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