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| Series VII: Transcripts, 1520s-1880s (continued) | |||||||||||||
| VII E: Other Manuscript Sources, 1560s-1880s (continued) | |||||||||||||
| (25) Continental Congress. Journal, 1778. (continued) | |||||||||||||
| "Journal of the Commissioners appointed By the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the Purpose of regulating the Prices of Labor, &c. agreeably to the Fifth Article of the Resolves of the Continental Congress, of the 22 Nov. A.D. 1777," 15-31 Jan. 1778. | |||||||||||||
| (26) Cushing, Charles. Journal, 1776. | |||||||||||||
| 1 item (15 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Captain in the Massachusetts militia. Describes the sufferings and hardships of provincial and Continental troops under Gen. John Sullivan on the retreat from St. Johns to Ticonderoga during the Quebec Campaign, 18 June-26 Sept. 1776. Includes remarks on discipline, disease, skirmishes, and deaths. Original in the possession of Mr. Cushing, Lancaster, Mass., 1845. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:6-7 REEL 4-5 | (27) Deane, Silas, 1737-1784. Letterbooks, 1777-1784. | ||||||||||||
| 4 items (circa 1,100 letters). | |||||||||||||
| Connecticut delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774-1776, and agent to France, 1776-1778. Contains letters written by Deane in Europe and America concerning commercial and political affairs, his recall as American agent in Paris, the settlement of Deane's account with Congress, and personal business matters. Recipients include Edward Bancroft, Thomas Barclay, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, William Carmichael, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, John Jay, Robert Morris, Isaac Moses, Gurdon Saltonstall, and his brothers, Barnabus and Simeon Deane. Published in the New-York Historical Society Collections, vols. 20-22 (1887-1889). Originals in the Connecticut Historical Society. | |||||||||||||
| 27.1, 26 Aug.-3 Oct. 1777 | |||||||||||||
| 27.2, 4-19 Oct. 1777 | |||||||||||||
| 27.3, 24 Oct.-23 Nov. 1777 | |||||||||||||
| 27.4, 25 Nov. 1777-3 Jan. 1778 | |||||||||||||
| 27.5, 4 Jan.-8 Feb. 1778 | |||||||||||||
| 27.6, 11 Feb.-29 Mar. 1778 | |||||||||||||
| 27.7, 1 Sept.-22 Oct. 1778 | |||||||||||||
| 27.8, 24 Oct. 1778-6 Mar. 1779 | |||||||||||||
| 27.9, 9 Mar.-3 Aug. 1779 | |||||||||||||
| 27.10, 5 Aug.-21 Sept. 1779 | |||||||||||||
| 27.11, 22 Sept. 1779-20 Feb. 1780 | |||||||||||||
| 27.12, 8 Apr.-2 June 1780 | |||||||||||||
| 27.13, 8 Aug.-2 Sept. 1780 | |||||||||||||
| 27.14, 4 Sept. 1780-5 May 1781 | |||||||||||||
| 27.15, 11 May-26 Sept. 1781 | |||||||||||||
| 27.16, 21 Sept.-26 Oct. 1781 | |||||||||||||
| 27.17, 28 Oct.-26 Dec. 1781 | |||||||||||||
| 27.18, 5 Jan.-30 Mar. 1782 | |||||||||||||
| 27.19, 8 Apr. 1782-28 Aug. 1783 | |||||||||||||
| 27.20, 15 Oct. 1783-10 May 1784 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:7 REEL 5 | (28) Douglas, William, circa 1742-1777. Orderly book, 1776. | ||||||||||||
| 1 item (33 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Colonel in the Connecticut State Regiment. Chiefly brigade and regimental orders concerning the recruitment, organization, supply, discipline, health, and service of Connecticut soldiers during the New York Campaign, 1 July-13 Dec. 1776. Original at Yale College, 1843. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:8 REEL 5 | (29) Duane, James, 1733-1797. Papers, 1752-1786 | ||||||||||||
| circa 200 items. | |||||||||||||
| New York lawyer and statesman. Correspondence, reports, petitions, depositions, newspaper clippings, notes, and advertisements concerning the Vermont land controversy. Includes Ethan Allen's "A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the Government of New York Relating to their obtaining the Jurisdiction of that Large District of Land to the Westward from Connecticut River..."; a report entitled "Collection of Evidence in vindication of The Territorial Rights and Jurisdiction of the State of New York against The Claims of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and New Hampshire and the people of the Grants who are commonly called Vermonters"; and a report on the "State of the Evidence and Argument in Support of the Territorial Rights and Jurisdiction of New York against The Government of New-Hampshire and the Claimants under it and against, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts," by James Duane. Correspondents include John Blackburn, Joseph Blanchard, William Bullock, William Cockburn, John Munro, Benjamin Spencer, James Wadsworth, and Robert Yates. Originals in the New-York Historical Society, 1843. | |||||||||||||
| 29.1, Correspondence and papers, 1752-1786 | |||||||||||||
| 29.2, "Collection of Evidence..." | |||||||||||||
| 29.3, "State of the Evidence..." | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:8 REEL 5 | (30) Dyer, Eliphalet, 1721-1807. Correspondence, 1764. | ||||||||||||
| 3 items. | |||||||||||||
| Jurist, soldier, and statesman from Windham, Conn. Contains two letters from Dyer to his brother-in-law, Samuel Gray, London, England, 10 Feb. and 20 Mar. 1764, and an undated letter from Gray to Dyer concerning the Susquehanna Company, Indian affairs, and proposed colonial taxes. Originals in the possession of Henry Stevens, Jr., 1845. | |||||||||||||
| (31) Elizabeth Town District. Maryland Journal, 1775-1777. | |||||||||||||
| 1 item (215 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Proceedings of the Committee of Observation for Elizabeth Town District, 14 Sept. 1775-24 Apr. 1777. Contains correspondence with the Maryland Council of Safety; requests for troops and supplies; lists of "non-enrollers" and "non-associators"; orders concerning deserters, Tories, counterfeiters, and pacifists; names of members of district and state committees; and miscellaneous accounts, petitions, reports, requisitions, and regulations. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:8 REEL 5-6 | (32) Elwyn, Alfred Langdon, 1804-1884. Collection, 1774-1789. | ||||||||||||
| circa 450 items. | |||||||||||||
| Physician, philanthropist, and collector. Chiefly correspondence between Josiah Bartlett, John Langdon, James Lovell, and William Whipple, 1774-1782, concerning British import duties and trade restrictions, the Siege of Boston, the conduct of the war, prize vessels, the recruitment and service of New Hampshire soldiers, activities and treatment of Tories, events in the Continental Congress, and foreign affairs. Most letters by Lovell and Whipple, and many of Bartlett's early letters, were written as members of the Continental Congress. Letters by Langdon concern chiefly his service as agent for prizes in New Hampshire. Other correspondents are Silas Deane, William Ellery, Hall Jackson, Richard Henry Lee, Robert Morris, John Sullivan, Jonathan Trumbull, Meshech Weare, and John Wentworth, Jr. Miscellaneous items include the resignation of Henry Laurens as president of Congress; "A Plan for the regulation and Equipment of the navy," 7 Apr. 1777; instructions to the New Hampshire delegates in Congress; and a report by Langdon on fortifications at West Point and vicinity. Originals in the Pennsylvania Historical Society. | |||||||||||||
| 32.1, 5 Sept. 1774-27 Dec. 1776 | |||||||||||||
| 32.2, 3 Jan. 1777-29 Aug. 1778 | |||||||||||||
| 32.3, 31 Aug. 1778-31 Jan. 1789 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:8 REEL 6 | (33) Farmar, Robert, undated 1804. Journal, 1781. | ||||||||||||
| 1 item (23 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Ensign in the Royal American Regiment. Detailed account of the siege of Pensacola, Fla. (Fort George), by Spanish and French forces under Gov. Bernardo de Gálvez, 9 Mar.-12 July 1781. Includes information on Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw reinforcements. Published in Historical Magazine 4 (1860), pp. 166-171, and Louisiana Historical Quarterly 26 (1943), pp. 311-329. | |||||||||||||
| (34) Fleete, Henry, fl. 1621-1654. Journal, 1631-1632. | |||||||||||||
| 1 item (20 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Adventurer. Account of a voyage in the barque Warwick from England to North America, excursions in the rivers and harbors of Maryland and Virginia, and trade with various Indian tribes, 4 July 1631-22 Feb. 1632. Published in Edward D. Neill, Founders of Maryland(1876), and John T. Scharf, History of Maryland (1876), vol. 1. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:9-11 REEL 6-8 | (35) Force, Peter. Collection, 1756-1814. | ||||||||||||
| circa 900 items. | |||||||||||||
| Printer, editor, and antiquarian. Chiefly correspondence and papers relating to the American Revolution, particularly the Northern and Middle Departments, 1775-1783. Includes official correspondence and orders of the commander-in-chief; correspondence between various officers, officials, and state and local committees and the Continental Congress; proceedings and minutes of courts-martial; intelligence reports; miscellaneous muster rolls and returns; lists of prisoners of war; captured letters; correspondence concerning the Carlisle Peace Commission; copies of the Articles of Capitulation at Yorktown, Va., and the provisional Treaty of Peace; and miscellaneous letters and documents. Provides details on the conduct of the war, enlistments, troop arrangements, fortifications, military supplies, the treatment of Tories, criminals, and prisoners of war, generalship, and rank disputes. Also contains information on western lands and Pontiac's War. Correspondents include John Armstrong, William Armstrong, Benedict Arnold, William Atlee, Benjamin Bellows, Daniel Brodhead, Sir Guy Carleton, George Clinton, Thomas Cushing, Horatio Gates, George Germain, Moses Hazen, Frederick Howard (5th Earl of Carlisle), James Jay, Henry Knox, John Lloyd, James Maury, James Otis, Samuel Sherburne, John Stark, William Stevenson, John Thornton, Jonathan Trumbull, George Washington, Anthony Wayne, Meshech Weare, Benning Wentworth, Jonathan Williams, and William Woodford. Transcribed by William Q. Force, chiefly from originals in his father's collection, for use as printer's copy for the American Archives. Arranged by subject or type of material because missing pages disrupted the pagination sequence established by Force. | |||||||||||||
| 35.1, Armstrong papers, 1762-1814 | |||||||||||||
| 35.2, Correspondence of Benedict Arnold, 1780 | |||||||||||||
| 35.3, Articles of Capitulation at Yorktown and related returns, 1781 | |||||||||||||
| 35.4, Correspondence and papers of William Atlee, 1781 | |||||||||||||
| 35.5, Correspondence and papers of William Atlee, 1781-1783 | |||||||||||||
| 35.6, Correspondence of William Atlee and the Lancaster, Pa., Committee of Safety, 1776-1777 | |||||||||||||
| 35.7, Correspondence of William Atlee and the Lancaster, Pa., Committee of Safety, 1777-1780 | |||||||||||||
| 35.8, Letters to Benjamin Bellows, 1777-1780 | |||||||||||||
| 35.9, Papers concerning Col. Daniel Brodhead's command at Fort Pitt, 1781 | |||||||||||||
| 35.10, Correspondence between James Jay and Sir Guy Carleton, 1782 | |||||||||||||
| 35.11, Carlisle Peace Commission-Parliamentary bill on American taxation, 1778 | |||||||||||||
| 35.12, Papers of George Clinton, 1781-1784 | |||||||||||||
| 35.13, Continental Congress papers: letters and papers to, 1777-1783 | |||||||||||||
| 35.14, Continental Congress papers: charges against Silas Deane, 1778-1779 | |||||||||||||
| 35.15, Continental Congress papers: correspondence with Adm. James Gambier, 1778 | |||||||||||||
| 35.16, Continental Congress papers: committee at camp, minutes of proceedings and correspondence, 1778 | |||||||||||||
| 35.17, Proceedings of courts-martial, 1777-1783 | |||||||||||||
| 35.18, Elizabeth Town District of Maryland, 1775-1777 | |||||||||||||
| 35.19, Intercepted letters of Lord George Germain, 1781 | |||||||||||||
| 35.20, Letters to Jonathan Hale, 1777 | |||||||||||||
| 35.21, Moses Hazen's Canadian Regiment | |||||||||||||
| 35.22, Moses Hazen v. James R. Reid, 1783 | |||||||||||||
| 35.23, Letters and orders to Henry Knox, 1779 | |||||||||||||
| 35.24, Papers of Rev. James Maury, 1756-1763 | |||||||||||||
| 35.25, Military papers: intelligence reports | |||||||||||||
| 35.26. Military papers: miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
| 35.27, Military papers: miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
| 35.28, Military papers: returns, 1777-1783 | |||||||||||||
| 35.29, Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1765-1770 | |||||||||||||
| 35.30, Miscellaneous correspondence, 1777-1782 | |||||||||||||
| 35.31, Papers concerning the arrangement of New York regiments, 1777-1780 | |||||||||||||
| 35.32, Proceedings of the Schenectady, N.Y., Committee of Safety, 1777-1778 | |||||||||||||
| 35.33, Correspondence of John and Samuel Sherburne, 1778 | |||||||||||||
| 35.34, Letters to Gen. John Stark, 1778-1781 | |||||||||||||
| 35.35, Provisional Treaty of Paris, 1782 | |||||||||||||
| 35.36, Correspondence of Jonathan Trumbull, 1777-1778 | |||||||||||||
| 35.37, Correspondence of George Washington, 1777-1784 | |||||||||||||
| 35.38, Letters to Gen. William Woodford, 1775-1780 | |||||||||||||
| 35.39, Papers concerning the court-martial of Gen. Anthony Wayne, 1777-1778 | |||||||||||||
| 35.40, Papers of Meshech Weare and the New Hampshire Committee of Safety, 1777-1784 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:12 REEL 8 | (36) Franklin, William, 1731-1813. Papers, 1775-1776. | ||||||||||||
| 6 items. | |||||||||||||
| Royal governor of New Jersey. Letter from Franklin to Lord Dartmouth, 5 Jan. 1776, on the political crisis in New Jersey, with the following enclosures: (1) Reasons why the Americans should not furnish the King's ships with provisions; (2) the substance of John Dickinson's speech to the assembly; (3) John De Hart's resignation from the Continental Congress; (4) Minutes of the New Jersey Assembly, 17 Nov.-4 Dec. 1775; and (5) Petition to the New Jersey Assembly against independence. Original letter in the Force collection. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:12 REEL 8 | (37) French and Indian War, 1756-1763. Extracts of papers, 1756-1760. | ||||||||||||
| circa 500 items. | |||||||||||||
| Extracts of letters, reports, and speeches from America and the West Indies on the conduct of the war. Appears to have been copied from British newspapers and periodicals, circa 1845. | |||||||||||||
| 37.1, 6 June 1756-27 Aug. 1757 | |||||||||||||
| 37.2, 5 Sept. 1757-31 May 1758 | |||||||||||||
| 37.3, 1 June-18 Dec. 1758 | |||||||||||||
| 37.4, 19 Dec. 1758-19 June 1760 | |||||||||||||
| (38) Frye, Joseph, circa 1711-1794. Journal, 1757. | |||||||||||||
| 2 items. | |||||||||||||
| Colonel in the Massachusetts militia. "Journal of the Attack of Fort William Henry, on the 3rd of Aug., and the Surrender of it, on the 9th of the same Month, 1757" (22 p.). Includes a biographical sketch of Colonel Frye. Two transcripts of the same journal, one copied by J. Goldsborough Bruff and the other by Henry Stevens, 1845. | |||||||||||||
| (39) Gallup, Nathan. Orderly book, 1779. | |||||||||||||
| 1 item (28 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Lieutenant colonel in the Connecticut militia. General and regimental orders issued at Groton and New London, Conn., 16 July-22 Aug. 1779. Concerns chiefly recruits, duty assignments, courts-martial, and discipline. Original in the possession of Col. Samuel S. Wood, Ledyard, Conn., circa 1845. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:12 REEL 8-9 | (40) Garth, Charles, circa 1734-1784. Papers, 1765-1775. | ||||||||||||
| circa 460 items. | |||||||||||||
| South Carolina agent in London. Correspondence and accounts of the South Carolina Committee on Correspondence, 26 Oct. 1765-27 May 1775, and miscellaneous memorials, petitions, and reports. Concerns chiefly trade with England and taxation by the British Parliament. Letters from 26 Oct. 1765-25 Mar. 1766, presented to Peter Force by George Bancroft, 1843; the remaining letters and documents transcribed from originals in South Carolina, 1843. | |||||||||||||
| 40.1, 26 Oct. 1765-25 Mar. 1766 | |||||||||||||
| 40.2, 6 June 1766-9 Mar. 1771 | |||||||||||||
| 40.3, 24 Nov. 1770-27 May 1775 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VII E:13-14 REEL 9-10 | (41) Gates, Horatio, 1729-1806. Papers, 1777. | ||||||||||||
| circa 500 items. | |||||||||||||
| General in the Continental Army. Chiefly official correspondence, orders, petitions, intelligence reports, records of courts-martial, and returns from the headquarters of the Northern Department, 4 Jan.-16 Dec. 1777. Also contains some family correspondence, and an orderly book kept at Albany, N.Y., 19 Apr.-2 June 1777. Provides information on the Philadelphia and Saratoga campaigns, skirmishes along the Hudson River, the Convention Army, discipline, troop locations, prisoners of war, paroles, desertions, Indian alliances, recruitment, problems with disease, generalship, rank disputes, Tories, events in the Continental Congress. Correspondents include John Armstrong, Benedict Arnold, John Burgoyne, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, James Clinton, Thomas Conway, Thomas Cushing, Jacob Cuyler, James Duane, Matthias Alexis de Roche Fermoy, Simon Fraser, Peter Gansevoort, John Glover, William Gordon, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Robert Hanson, Udny Hay, Moses hazen, William Heath, Hugh Hughes, Marquis de Lafayette, Henry B. Livingston, James Lovell, Marquis de Malmady, Thomas Mifflin, John Nixon, Richard Peters, Enoch Poor, Israel Putnam, Joseph Reed, Arthur St. Clair, Barry St. Leger, Alexander Scammell, John Schuyler, Philip Schuyler, Roger Sherman, John Stark, Jonathan Trumbull, Marquis de la Rouerie Tuffin, Richard Varick, John Vaughan, John Wadsworth, Artemas Ward, Anthony Wayne, James Wilkinson, Marinus Willett, Robert Yates, and various state and local committees of safety. Originals in the New-York Historical Society, 1848. | |||||||||||||
| 41.1, 4 Jan.-6 May 1777 | |||||||||||||
| 41.2, 7 May-11 June 1777 | |||||||||||||
| 41.3, 16 June-27 Aug. 1777 | |||||||||||||
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