Revolutionary war period documents (14) [decimalized]

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GLC#
GLC01412.64-View header record
Type
Header Record
Date
1758-1782
Title
Revolutionary war period documents (14) [decimalized]
Place Written
Various Places
Pagination
Primary time period
Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
Sub-Era
The Thirteen Colonies
Revolutionary War
Military History

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Collection Item
Autograph document signed

to John Lawrence, Esq.

December 13, 1780

Pelkin, William, fl. 1770-1780

Countersigned vertically by Samuel Wyllys. Instructions to pay Colonel Elysha Sheldon five hundred continental dollars out of the public treasury for the expense of an express to General Washington. Numbered 5737 on verso. Endorsed by Sheldon on the...

GLC01412.64.01
Collection Item
Autograph document signed

[Legal document created by a committee of the Rhode Island General assembly]

8 June 1781

Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802

Signed by Hopkins, former Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy, as deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly. Cosigned by committee member John Jenckes. Order to pay Job Greene one hundred and thirteen pounds and five shillings. Endorsed...

GLC01412.64.02
Collection Item
Printed document signed

[Notice regarding postage] [in French]

30 October 1780

Bureau general des Postes

Printed notice requesting the payment of postage to an office in France, in order to prevent further delay of the transmission of a letter. Written to Monsieur Cerranon in Baltimore, Maryland.

GLC01412.64.03
Collection Item
Document signed

[Receipt acknowledging funds]

12 March 1788

Martin, Peter, fl. 1778

Co-signed by John Delka. Martin and Delka were exchanged prisoners returning to South Carolina. Document is a receipt acknowledging Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress, had lent them sixty dollars for their trip home.

GLC01412.64.04
Collection Item
Document signed

[Engsign's commission of Stephen Day]

3 March 1775

Trumbull, Jonathan, Sr., 1710-1785

Cosigned by Secretary George Wyllys. Partially printed certificate signed by Connecticut's Colonial Governor and Captain-General Jonathan Trumbull appointing Stephen Day ensign to the 22nd Regiment of Connecticut. He is given command of a company of...

GLC01412.64.05
Collection Item
Printed document signed

[Order to pay General Arthur St. Clair two pounds and seven pence]

5 May 1785

Irvine, James, 1735-1819

Partially printed document in which Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive Council orders payment for one year's interest on St. Clair's depreciation certificate, due 10 April 1784. Signed by Irving as V.P. An autograph note on the verso signed by "I.S...

GLC01412.64.07
Collection Item
Document signed

muster roll of Captain Jonathan Well's company

1776 circa

Well, Jonathan, fl. 1776

Includes distance each soldier has to travel. It is noted that some of the soldiers were discharged either in or near New York. Well's company was part of Colonel Erastus Wolcott's Connecticut Regiment.

GLC01412.64.08
Collection Item
Document signed

[Pay roll for Captain Ephraim Chapin's Company]

1777

Chapin, Ephraim, 1745-1812

Also signed by William Pynchon, who attests to the validity of this pay roll. Includes names, dates of engagement and discharge, rank, and amount of pay per soldier.

GLC01412.64.11
Collection Item
Manuscript document signed

[Certificate of election]

10 April 1782

Yellis, Gilbert, fl. 1782

Certificate of election enclosed with letter from John Taylor to William Livingston (GLC01412.64.12.01), signed by Yellis Gilbert, the Clerk of Artillery, and dated 10 April 1782. Gilbert certifies that Lupp was elected captain and Nessis was elected...

GLC01412.64.12.02
Collection Item
Autograph document signed

Prisoners in Worcester Goal

5 September 1780

Blake, Increase, fl. 1780

List of five prisoners in the Worcester, Massachusetts, jail. Also mentions reasons for imprisonment: two for not paying ministerial taxes, one for desertion, one as a prisoner of war, and one for threatening the life of another person in Worcester.

GLC01412.64.14
Collection Item
Document signed

[Commission of Alexander Anderson as lieutenant of foot]

24 April 1758

Reading, John, fl. 1758

Countersigned by Secretary Charles [illegible]. Assigns Anderson to the New Jersey Regiment under Captain John [illegible]. Partially printed document. Signed as President of the Council (governor) and "Commander in Chief of the Province of Nova...

GLC01412.64.15