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[Muster roll of Major General Friedrich Adolph Riedesel's regiment infantry of the Brunswick troops]

Created at Fort Brooklyn. Includes recruits sent "from Brunswik to America in the year 1780 as muster'd by his britanik Majesty's Commissary of Muster, William Porter." Includes the names of regimental staff (servants, clerks, and chaplains, among...

GLC01450.605

Printed circular unsigned re: collecting taxes, mentions Robert Morris

Headed "(Circular Letter.)" Discusses the need to provide state financial support to Congress for provisioning for the army. Comments on the problems with their currency created after the Revolution began. Describes the moment and obligation as...

GLC01450.606

[Hessian muster roll] [In French]

Hessian regiments of the "Grenadiers Lieutenant General Charquis d'Angelleli" 25 December 1781- 24 June 1782. Signed by [Shielhause?] as Captain Lieutenant, F. W. Book as Major, and J. G. Endemann as Lieutenant Colonel and Commander.

GLC01450.607

[Resolution of Provincial Congress of Watertown for enlistments]

Clerical copy with signature of Joseph Warren, as President Pro Tempore, in the secretary's hand. Document refers to "the Recovery and preservation of our undoubted Rights and Liberties." Delineates pay scale of various ranks in the army, says a...

GLC01450.608

Receipts of payment from the State of Connecticut [Decimalized .01-.21]

Most of the receipts in this collection pertain to payment for post riding.

GLC01450.609

[Copy of the Probate of the Will of the Late Roper Dawson]

One copy of the probate and last will of Roper Dawson dated August 15, 1771. Outlines how his heirs, his wife Rachel, son George, and daughters Harriet and Charlotte will divide the estate upon his death. Appoints his wife and friends Augustus Van...

GLC01450.610.01

[Receipt book]

Leavitt records transactions for mugs of drink, tea, rum, wine, meal sugar, chocolate, milk, eggs, and other goods. Leavitt calls this manuscript a day book.

GLC01450.611

[Petition to Queen Anne and account for planned expedition to Canada]

A petition to Quen Anne for an expedition to Canada signed by Joseph Dudley, G. Saltonstall, Samuel Cranston, Samuel Vetch, Micholson.

GLC01450.612.01

[Oath by a loyalist parolee during the American Revolution]

Witnessed by George Cochran and William Lyon, a member of the Pennsylvania committee of safety. The oath of a loyalist named Robert Robb pledges non-aggression and loyalty to the cause of the United States. The second page is a bond holding the...

GLC01450.615

[Appointment of Lieutenant Zibeon Hooker]

Document names Zibeon Hooker as a lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of Foot, in one of the fifteen battalions raised in Massachusetts to serve in the Continental Army under Colonel Rufus Putnam. Signed by John Avery, Secretary of State of...

GLC01450.616.01