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James McMahan orderly book

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Description: This volume is the day-to-day record of the 2nd Pennsylvania Battalion during Henry Bouquet's 1764 Ohio campaign during the Pontiac War, also known as Pontiac's Conspiracy. It documents military orders, records of court martial, announcements, encounters with women following the troops, French prisoners of war, Indigenous hostages, interactions with local Indigenous groups, and life at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania, following a siege by allied Indigenous warriors. After McMahan returned home in December 1764, he used the orderly book to keep personal accounts. The sporadic records cover 1765 to 1772 and include transactions involving purchases of whiskey, shoes, "Bedsteads, "dear skins," lead, sugar, salt, and books, as well as payments to day laborers and artisans.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1764-1775.
Call number: mssHM 84495
Creator: McMahan, James (1734-1823)(Opens in new tab)

James Scott log of the Brig Lydia: handwritten manuscript

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This log covers seven trips of the "Lydia" across the Atlantic during the years 1764-1766 between London and Boston.

mssHM 987

Orderly book of John Lacey's Brigade of Pennsylvania Militia, 1778, Jan. 22 -- 1780, Sept. 1

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Orderly books of John Lacey's command of his brigade of Pennsylvania militia in 1778 and 1780. The first orderly book, complete from the date his took command of the brigade until his day of his resignation, includes the period of the battle of Crooked Billet. It is followed by the orderly book of Lacey's second command and covers the period from Aug. 14 to Sept. 1

mssHM 614

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Cash book B

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Double-column account book of an unidentified merchant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, possibly Richard Footman and Peter Footman. The first page has two contra entries for February 1-2,1756, followed by consistent cash and contra entries from June 1, 1759, to July 31, 1768, on the subsequent pages. Includes a June 11, 1763, entry to "Franklin & Hall in full for Advertisements & the Gazette to 4 March last" (folio 37), as well as an entry for Benjamin Franklin (1764 January 17, folio 41), and David Hall (folios 57, 90). The names of Richard Footman and Peter Footman appear in multiple entries throughout the volume.

mssHM 729

Orderly book, 1761

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The orderly book was kept by John Grant of Archibald McNeil's company in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment. Kept between June 20 and October 17, 1761, this orderly book pertains to the British occupation of Crown Point, N.Y. Also contains miscellaneous accounts, verses, and memoranda to 1801.

mssHM 595

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Orderly book of the bark Golden Gate and clipper ship Nightingale

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The volume contains the orders of Engineer-in-Chief Charles S. Bulkley, and Chief of Marine Charles M. Scammon from May 1865 to December 1866. The orders deal with the following issues: destinations for the ships including San Francisco, California, Victoria, B.C., Sitka, Alaska, the Bering Strait, Siberia and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiǐ, Russia; directions to certain ports; the rules and regulations of the expedition; the promotions, transfers, and punishments of sailors; work to be done by the land parties; ship repairs; the selling and buying of furs; and interactions with the native Alaskans. The volume also mentions the body of Robert Kennicott being brought aboard; Kennicott was the Chief of the Scientific Corps of the expedition and died in Alaska in May 1866.

mssHM 67915

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James Humphrey addendum to James Humphrey's Book of forms

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In 1568 James Humphrey assembled and copied out a miscellany of models, forms, and calculations which were in use at the time, to serve as a working manual for other clerks and administrators. Sometime after 1580, Humphrey transcribed materials for this second Book of forms. Some of the contents duplicate sections in the 1568 book, but some sections are new. This manuscript contains ten pages of tables for computing costs of cheese, beef, and herring in varying quantities, and table of allowances for victualing ships. It also contains forms for pressing and recruiting mariners (giving specific dates, places, and names), and where and when to report for duty. New to this manuscript includes forms for searching and salvaging ship materials, for recording identities, destinations, and cargoes of merchants and mariners, for recording names of murdered men and their murderers, as well as cause of death, weapon used, and other details.

mssHM 80802

James McMahan orderly book

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