Scope and Content Note
The papers of William Torrey (1751?-1828), span the years 1777-1904, with the bulk from 1777 to 1783. The collection consists of orderly books of the Second Massachusetts Regiment, September 6, 1777 to May 31, 1783, kept primarily by Torrey while serving as a Continental Army officer during the Revolutionary War. Included are general, division, brigade, and regimental orders issued at Danbury and Hartford, Connecticut; Middlebrook, New Jersey; and Saratoga, White Plains, West Point, and New Windsor, New York. Also in the collection are a muster roll of the regiment, a memorandum book containing returns, Continental Congress resolves, and miscellaneous material. A list of the volumes with notations by A. A. Folsom, 1904, precedes the collection.