Scope and Content Note
The papers of Roger Sherman (1721-1793) span the years 1746-1827 and consist mainly of bound financial material, legal documents and agreements, notebooks, and some correspondence. Two notebooks contain accounts of monies loaned the United States between September 1777 and August 1780, Sherman's expenses while attending the Continental Congress, June 7-Oct. 2 1777, the British national debt, 1740-1775, and extracts from the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Included is a notebook of a handwritten confession of faith and a 1776 almanac signed by Sherman containing personal accounts, 1775-1776. Also in the collection are a letter to William Williams, August 1777, regarding the appointment of General Horatio Gates to the Northern Department of the Continental Army, and photocopies of five letters between Sherman and John Adams concerning the ratification of the Constitution, July 1789. Other correspondents include Justus Mitchell, Theophylact Bache, and Sherman family members.