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Rhode Island military account books

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Description: Revolutionary War account books of the Light Infantry, Rhode Island Regiment; and the 1st Company, Rhode Island Battalion, both commanded by Capt. William Allen.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1782-1783.
Call number: mssHM 641
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1994.
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Aaron Noble His Book, 1758, May 30 - Nov. 10

Manuscripts

Military operations at Lake George in June - November of 1758, including news of Massachusetts regiments under command of Col. Timothy Ruggles, Ebenezer Nichols, Jonathan Bagley, and others; operations of James Abercromby, Phinehas Lyman, Rogers' Rangers, Royal Americans, John Bradstreet; communications with the French at Fort Ticonderoga following Abercromby's botched attack; French deserters; camp life, fortification works, the mutiny in the light infantry provincial battalion commanded by Colonel Oliver Partridge on July 22; Indian assaults at Fort William Henry on July 6, 1758 and Halfway Brook in July-Sept. 1758; news of the battle at Fort Ticonderoga and capture of Louisburg.

mssHM 59428

Lieutenant Joseph Bull's orderly book, 1759

Manuscripts

Kept by a soldier of the 1st Battalion of the New York Regiment and concerns the actions of the British army at Schenectady and Forts Herkimer, Stanwix, Oswego, and Ontario, between May 25 and November 1, 1759.

mssHM 687

Isaac Burnham His Book Drawn for the use of Capt. Emersons Company to keep account of arms ammunition clothing & camp equipage that may be Drawn in the 5th company 10th Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Benjamin Tupper Esquire, 1782, Aug. 8

Manuscripts

Accounts for clothing, arms, ammunition, etc. for the entire company commanded by Capt. Nehemiah Emerson and each man, including "David Negro."

mssHM 697

Rhode Island : city of Newport

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated landscape view of the harbor and city of Newport, Rhode Island, showing sailboats in the water, in a shield motif; vignettes of the seal of Rhode Island, factories and pastures and orchards, with busts of William Ellery and Stephen Hopkins, two signers of the Declaration of Independence.

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Plan of the northern part of Rhode Island in the township of Portsmouth. Shewing the British posts of defence as compleated during the possession of Rhode Island, from the 8th of Dec. 1776 to the 25th of Oct. 1778. [cartographic material]

Manuscripts

Manuscript map showing the northern part of Rhode Island from Fogland Ferry to Bristol Point Ferry. The Battle of Rhode Island took place on August 29, 1778. This maps depicts the withdrawal of American troops northward on the island. Shows the roads from Newport leading north and shows the locations of the Hessian, Anspach, and British forces on Quaker Hill and the Continental Army positions on Wind-Mill Hill. The Continental Army held Wind-Mill Hill for 2 days, before evacuating the island completely on September 1, 1778. Colored.

mssHM 15473

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California Civil War Letters

Manuscripts

The group of items consists of transcripts of twelve letters written by soldiers of the California Battalion during their service in the Civil War (these letters were originally printed in the Steamer edition of the Alta California). Sergeant Thomas H. Merry, of Company L, wrote five of the letters; the other seven are anonymous or signed only with initials or a first name. In the letters, the soldiers talk about their trip to Massachusetts, life in camp and their training, their skirmishes with Mosby and his 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, Colonel Charles Lowell, freedmen in Virginia, their defense of Washington, D.C., the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, their dislike of Massachusetts and the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, and the Battle of Cedar Creek. Included with this group of transcripts are a typewritten chronology of the unit's service and lists of soldiers taken prisoner or killed.

mssHM 68367-68381

Rhode Island military account books

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