B. Lippincott and Co., 1870. Photostat. 8. The Sovereign States, 1775-1783. Sabine, Lorenzo. Clark, David Sanders. Munroe, John A. Pay roll for Col. Samuel Pattersons officers, 1789, 40. Society of the Cincinnati membership certificate for James Tilton, 1787. T. J. Wharton. Washingtons Official Map of Yorktown (Washington: National Archives, 1952). Letters To and From Caesar Rodney, 1756-1784. The folder also include chronologies of the Revolution written after the war. Baltimore: Read-Taylor Press, 1925. Morris, Irving. This was especially true in lower Delaware where the areas isolation and conservatism, the influence of the Anglican Church, and the presence of British ships offshore kept many loyal to the Crown. Commanded by Col. David Hall; Formed in 1776, reOrganized on Sep 1780 into two companies under Captains Robert Kirkwood and Peter Jaquett and renamed Kirkwoods Delaware Battalion. The trial of suspects in the burning of the British revenue schooner Gaspee is the topic of correspondence from January and April 1773, and an October 1773 letter from Charles Thompson deals with the separation of powers in government. Davis, Burton. Taking into account rank and length of service, auditors estimated how much each soldier should receive, issuing depreciation certificates because the currency had been devalued so severely.(16). Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati. Carpenter and Walker of Port Penn, 1778, Revolutionary War Records, Committee of Correspondence, 1774-1775 (7 folders), 1. Valley Forge Historical Society. A variety of articles dealing with the American Revolution may be found in publications such as Delaware History as well. Coochs Bridge, Del. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988. Several newspaper articles dealing with Delawares role in the American Revolution may be found in the American Revolution and Bicentennial folders. Commanded by Col.s Habersham's /Rae The American Historical Scene. Petitions include officers requesting payment, former President McKinlys request for reimbursement, and persons convicted of treason seeking leniency. R-57: Index of the Journal and Order Book of Captain Robert Kirkwood, 1777-1791. By October Delaware had supplied roughly 460 out of a requested 600 men, commanded by Colonel Samuel Patterson. General Patterson, punching money and Continental Loan officer salary, n.d. 2. R-53: Letters of Dr. John McKinly, 1773-1778. The First Two Years of War (1776-1778): On January 17, 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Robert Kirkwood (at age twenty) was commissioned a First Lieutenant in Col. John Haslet's Regiment of Light Infantry (fore-runner of the Delaware Continental Regiment). . Loyalists in Delaware (transcript), 1790, 33. [Part of the modern counties of New Castle in Delaware and Cecil in Maryland], n.d. Photostat. The Delaware Public Archives has original military records of the colonial wars, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, militia records for 1765 to 1841, Mexican Border dispute, some Adjutant General Civil War files, Spanish-American War, National Guard Card File, World War I, and World War II records. . Records from the DARBC include administrative files pertaining to the celebration of the bicentennial of the American Revolution, as well as photographs, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, and speeches by the Governor related to the celebration. Heitman, Francis Barnard. Folder 3 contains a journal of marches from Morristown, New Jersey through the Kirkwood companys southern campaign, 1780-1782. George Washington to Mordecai Gist, from Wilmington (transcript), 1777, 21. The regiment would see action during the New York Campaign, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton, Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown and the Battle of Guilford Court House. Some 300 of the 400 men from Maryland died, along with 31 of the men from Delaware. The British captured Delawares president John McKinly and seized many public records. . Wilmington : Historical Society of Delaware, 1896. (ca. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1974. Box 6 contains photostats of Tilton correspondence from throughout the Revolutionary period. These records are photostats and photocopies of documents from the Historical Society of Delaware, the Historical Society of Philadelphia, the New York Public Library, and elsewhere. The Blues saw little action the remainder of 1779 and they wintered at Morristown, New Jersey. 1775. 1777. St. Michaels, Md. A Revolutionary War-era flag from the First State and the man who captured it are having a reunion of sorts. Accounts not paid by Philip Barratt and Isaac Carty, n.d. 4. Many of these letters relating to the Revolution may also be found in George Herbert Rydens The Letters of Caesar Rodney, 1756-1784 (see bibliography section). George Washington and Delaware. . (5) Throughout the war, bands of armed loyalists organized on several occasions, only to be dispersed by the militia or Continental troops. On Pale Rider! Folder 1 contains general orders, division and brigade orders, proceedings of court martials and courts of inquiry, company returns, muster rolls, musical notations, and a journal of marches from March through December 1777. In the early months of 1777 two Delaware companies joined Washingtons army. http://FamilySearch.org : 28 April 2023. 4. The second folder includes letters from correspondents such as General Light-Horse Harry Lee and George Washington, returns of Lees partisan corps, to which McLane was attached for a time, troop returns, and pay rolls from this period. Maryland Revolutionary Records. (Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association, Inc., 1931). . Pension receipts are a record of military pensions paid to veterans. RG 1315.008 Auditor of Accounts Waste Book, 1784-1796. Letter from John McKinly (transcript), 1776, 9. Delaware Line. Folder 2 contains pay rolls and muster rolls from 1777-1780, and January 1781, another musical notation, a furlough from 1779, and regiment returns from August and November 1781. Uniforms of the American, British, French and German Armies in the War of the American Revolution, 1775-1783. MacNeill, Henry T., and Aime Junkers MacNeill. Return of errors in the printed register of certificates issued by John Pierce, late Paymaster General, 1789, 22. List of Continental officers who died in service/invalid pension applicants, 1777-1793, 3. Most of the Continental Army was disbanded after the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War in 1783. The regiment would see action during the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Monmouth, Battle of Camden, Battle of Guilford Court House, Battle of Eutaw Springs and the Battle of Yorktown. ca. Photostat. of the Sums Charged in the General . 7. Meeting of convention protesting the closing of the Port of Boston (listed as Meetings at New Castle, Dover, and Lewes, photostats), 1774, 5. (12), A regiment of Delaware militia was called into service alongside the Continental Army in the summer of 1780. Confronted by Whig militia on at least three different occasions, the loyalists eventually dispersed. The 1st and 2nd Regiments went on to form the Legion of the United States in 1792 which later became the foundation of the United States Army in 1796. . In February, at the battle of Guilford Court House, 15 March 1781, the Delaware troops held their own against the British. 1818, &c. Washington, D. C.: Gales & Seaton, 1820; repr. (Original painting in Delaware Public Archives.). Bibliographies and indexes to material held elsewhere are also included. . The Auditors sundry accounts include the Council of Safety, congressional delegates, George Read, the United States, and various officers. Guthorn, Peter J. British Maps of the American Revolution. Burnham, Smith. . Jacob Bennett re: ships captured by the British, 1777, 19. Mobile Apps The government it formed consisted of a bicameral legislature, consisting of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, with a president and four-man Privy Council, both selected by the legislature, serving as the executive. . . Descriptive information for maps may be found in the Maps card catalog. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1994. Ash, Mollie Howard, comp. 3. Phototstat. []. Friedrich Adolph Julius van Wangenheim. Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission. 1674-1851. from the report of Secretary of War . Many went home during the retreat through New Jersey; on 22 December, along with eight officers, 92 men were present and fit for duty. Kent County, (transcripts, photostats, originals), 1776, 4. The records show dates of meetings, names of members in attendance, and matters under consideration such as appointments to committees, committee reports, petitions of local inhabitants, appointments of military officers, drafting of rules and regulations for the military, and complaints against certain officers. Photostat. Washington, D.C.: American Revolution Bicentennial Office, 1975. 16mm motion picture. Top Consequences of the Battle . Photostats. 5. The letter folders, containing both photostats and originals, are a mixture of personal and official correspondence. The compensation of soldiers was a concern due to the collapse of the currency system. Pitz, Henry C. The Brandywine Tradition. 10. [Major] Andres Journal . Revolutionary War Rolls Coverage Table Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. Orders on the State Treasurer to Pay Militia Officers, Arrangements . 15. Photostat. Letter from President of the convention, New Castle County (photocopy), 1776, 10. The microfilm version of the Senate Journals, RG 1120.0, contains the Minutes of the Council of the Delaware State from 1776 to 1792, published in 1886. Revolutionary War Records, Accounts, 1776-1807 (23 folders). Reed, H. Clay. ex display range cookers; somerset county, pa magistrate reports; market segmentation disadvantages; saroj khan daughter death; two in the thoughts one in the prayers meme RG 1922.004 DARBCMotion Picture Collection, 1976-1981. 30 Camp a head of Elk . of the Government, Votes and Proceedings of the House of Assembly, Votes and Proceedings of the Council of the Delaware State, Proceedings of the Convention of the Delaware State, Delaware Public Archives Motion Picture Collection, Delaware American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, Department of Public Instruction Motion Picture Collection, First settled in 1638, controlled in succession by the Swedes, Dutch, and finally the English, Delaware was a thriving colony in the years before the American Revolution. N.p., 1927. 5. 'Beardless boy' kept Delaware coast secure during Revolutionary War The commissary accounts detail provisions for prisoners of war apparently taken at Yorktown, listing general comments, regiments, number of rations, and amount of alcohol supplied. Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives. General Assembly This includes instructions for payment, statements certifying that an individual was the heir of a pensioner, and letters from physicians certifying disability. Landing at the Head of Elk in Maryland, British forces marched through Delaware. R-77: Settlement of Delaware Revolutionary War Claims with the United States, 1776-1787; Account Book of the State Auditor of Delaware, 1784-1800. A casualty return from the battle at Eutaw Springs, September 1781 may be found, as well as a transcript of correspondence between General Henry Clinton and General Benjamin Lincoln before Lincolns surrender of Charleston in 1780. (Whitford, Pa.: Stephen Moylan Press, 1958). Correspondence from 1783 can be found in Box 3 of the Dickinson papers. (Multiple sections of a map of the mid-Atlantic states)]. 2. Box 2 contains a draft copy of the volumes comprising Francis T. Tiltons Dr. Hayden, Horace Edwin. As the imperial crisis continued, the Whig opposition to Parliaments policies pushed forward in the colonies. Revolutionary Patriots of Delaware, 1775-1783. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1975. An Allen McLane folder, with articles on efforts taken in the 1960s to restore his burial place, is among the four American Revolution folders. Invalid pension claims (list of sources), 1778-1856, 9. 1976, RG 8005.046 Department of Public InstructionMotion Pictures Collection. A Pageant of 1776. 1950. RG 1120.9 Votes and Proceedings of the Council of the Delaware State 1776-1783. The Delaware Colony. Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition grand prize certificate, 1926. . Contains correspondence of John Dickinson, including letters to Caesar Rodney, Thomas Rodney, and others. Depositions, re: military service, 1785, 37. Delaware Society of the Cincinnati charter (photostat), 1783. . RG 1325.147 State Reports Collection, Proceedings of the Convention of the Delaware State, 1776 (reprinted 1927). Public Meetings 2. 3. . Battles; Campaigns; Leaders; Facts; Documents. Letter from John McKinly for gunpowder (photostat), 1775, 4. Brandywine Conservancy commemorates its preservation of key Brandywine Battlefield site on anniversary of the Revolutionary War battle. 1. Jackson, John W. The Pennsylvania Navy: 1775-1781: The Defense of the Delaware. Providence: Brown University Press, 1965. Clark, Murtie June. . Another volume, also not published, Pension Rolls and Correspondence, contains information on pension applicants. London: Crowell-Collier Press, 1970. 1976. Major Lewis Bush: A Correction. Typescript, n.d.. Munroe, John A. Battle of Camden - Wikipedia Dover: Henlopen Publishing Company, 1970. Ground Chosen and Entrenched by Washington to Fight Howes Army. (Price & Price, 1777). Delawares contributions to American independence did not end with the war. 10. Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Foundation, 1953. [Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bay (Clinton map #259)]. David Finney papers, re: Loyalists, 1777-1778, 7. Uniforms | 1stDelawareRegiment Only after 1822 do we find correspondence from individuals other than government officials or loan officers. 4. . 1778. An Unsurpassed Soldiery: The Delaware Regiment During the American . Gen. William Alexander, Lord Stirling. Cooch, Eleanor B. Delaware Signers of the Oath of Allegiance. The American Heritage Book of the American Revolution. 18. A photostat of the proceedings details a call for delegates to an expected colonial congress, and the forming of the New Castle County Committee of Correspondence. Kent County, resolutions of the Council (photostats), 1776, 4. RG 9200T03.000 Tilton-Conrad Papers, 1782-1783 (1 box). Many soldiers and officers were drawn from Delawares militias. Photostat. Painting by Horace Carpenter, 1917-1919. Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing, 1914. Position of the Army at New Garden. 1777 (9). Schlesinger, Arthur M. Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776. More commonly known as a day book, the waste book contains initial recordings of daily receipts and disbursements. In June 1776, an attack on Whigs in Kent County was narrowly averted. Photostat. . Millwood, New York: KTO Press, 1978. Samuel Shute journal extracts (transcript), 1781, 34. These files contain the minutes of the Council of Safety from the years 1775-1776. RG 9200R01.000 George Read Papers, 1764-1782 (3 folders). Meeting minutes include original manuscripts and printed documents, photostats, and typed transcripts. . Material relating to the Revolutionary War includes communication with the Assembly, a letter from Kent County ca. Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus. 7. A Committee of Correspondence was formed in October 1773 to communicate with other colonies. Also includes additional records of payments for recruiting bounties for the Flying Camp, and records of bounties paid for raising Continental reinforcements at the request of Congress. The following is a list of maps located in the map collection, and maps found in the vertical file collection. Personal Income Tax Documents; Records; Time-Line; Regiments. Dickens, Charles W., ed. 1820. Anderson, Enoch, 1753 or 4-1824. . N.p. Delaware Memorial at Valley Forge. 16. Commissary and personal accounts are intermingled. 1814. 7. Delaware pensioners, . Atlas of the American Revolution. Lt. Knight of His Majestys Navy. RG 1105.001 Proceedings of the Privy Council, 1778-1792. Motor Travel, May 1925, June 1925. . Dickinson, John, with introduction by R.T. H. Halsey. Pyle, Katharine. RG 1111.000 Legislative Papers, 1776-1783. The soldiers from tiny Delaware, fighting alongside the 1st Maryland Regiment, may well have prevented the capture of the majority of Washington's army, an event that might have ended the colonial rebellion then and there. XVII American Revolution Maps (vertical file). Bevans, Wilson Lloyd, and E. Melvin Williams, eds. RG 1115.0 Votes and Proceedings of the House of Assembly 1776-1783. Dedication of State House/Independence Festival 76, event poster, 1976. Washington and Tarleton. Colored engraving. #88: Continental EmissionUnited States account of taxes paid by Delaware, 7. Photostat. 1 (1931): 108-147. Wagon Brigade under Direction of Colonel Francis Wade, Regiment returns, pay rolls, account of discharges. 8 talking about this. 12th pennsylvania regiment revolutionary war - unbox.tw 4. . Philadelphia: J. Crissy, 1832. #149: Revolutionary Warmilitary records, bounty warrants, HMS Roebuck, Delaware soldiers burial sites, Coochs Bridge, 10. Letters from George Read, informing of Dickinsons selection to the Delaware General Assembly, and Charles Thomson regarding national finances, also date from 1780. Photostat. Based near Perth Amboy, New Jersey, forces from the camp, including the Delaware contingent, saw some action in the New York campaign. Through the Years with Aunt Clara. . The Battle of Long Island - National Guard . . Haslets Regiment (Delaware Blues), illustrations, 1776-1783, 12. Haslets men defended Chattertons Hill, retreating only as the American forces did. Maneuvering for a Battleground (parts I & II). Topics of correspondence from 1776 includes the appointment of generals, the purchase of arms, Dickinsons reservations regarding the Declaration of Independence, and Dickinsons service with his troops in New Jersey. The George Washington Atlas. Philadelphia: L. J. Richards & Company, 1888. Dover: Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1932. On 1 December 1776, the end of their enlistment, Patterson and his men returned home. Before and After the Battle of Brandywine: Extracts from the Journal of Sergeant Thomas Sullivan of H.M. Forty-Ninth Regiment of Foot. Typescript. Photostat. Drake, Edward. Henry Fisher and William Peery to John Hancock, 1777, 19. 6. 1. Ferguson, Bessie Brockson. The Council of Safety supervised county Committees of Inspection and Observation and militias, and was responsible for raising the first Delaware regiment commanded by John Haslet. . 1. Entries show date of entry, account heading, payee or payer, reason for disbursement, or receipts, amount of receipt or disbursement, and daily balances. They include transcripts and photostats as well as original documents. . There are appointments and commissions of officers and soldiers of the army, marching orders, and supply requests. 1st Pennsylvania Regiment (Revolutionary War) Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Military Records Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War 1st Pennsylvania Regiment Brief History Also known as the Pennsylvania Rifle Battalion and Thompson's Rifle Battalion. 1782. Letter from David Hall, Council of Safety (photocopy), 1776, 8. Haslets men again guarded the rear of the army as the Americans crossed the Delaware into Pennsylvania. Delawares veterans were ordered home toward the end of 1782. 2, 1950. Peery, Lynn. . About 20% of the Delaware Regiment (50 men) were killed [DESSAR estimate based on those listed as MIA] and 30% (72 men) were taken prisoner [Seymour], including six of the officers -- Lt. Col. Vaughan, Major Patten, Captains . Photostat. A Calendar of English Microfilms Relating to Delaware and Delawareans. Typescript, n.d.. . Neuenschwander, John A. Rockaway, N.J.: American Faculty Press, 1975. Colonial Delaware: A History. It is interesting to note that while the Kent and Sussex County delegations affirm their loyalty to the Crown, the New Castle County delegation does not. These books include rosters, muster rolls, histories, diaries, and other documents listing Pennsylvanian troops. Philadelphia: J. 3. Declaration of Commission, Light Infantry Company of Dover, 1976. 1778. The first volume of this work, in four bound typescript folios, covers the Revolutionary period and Tiltons role in the war, with reference to many original documents. General Howes proclamation (transcript), 1777, 17. . The Yorktown Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1781-1931: Its Purpose and Plans. Historical Flags of Our Ancestors - American Revolutionary War Unit Flags Public Archives Commission of Delaware. August 25 - British troops landed at Elkton Maryland, and marched into Delaware. 1777). Volume 1. Virginia Gazette facsimile copy, 1976. Map of the Original Thirteen Colonies (S. Augustus Mitchell, 1876). Baltimore: Southern Book Company, 1955. Orderly book of Caleb Prew Bennett at the Battle of Yorktown, 1781. Offprint from Delaware History IV, no. Rodneys papers include his will, administrative and legal papers, and letters. These records include muster rolls of Delaware troops throughout the American Revolution, letters from the Continental Congress to Delaware, and letters to and from Caesar Rodney, John McKinly, and Thomas McKean. . Siebert, Wilbur H. Loyalist Troops of New England. Repr. Commission of Francis Wade, Deputy Quartermaster General, 1779, 22. Haslet and his men managed to capture thirty-six men and a collection of weapons and blankets. John Glover and the Marblehead Men of Massachusetts 3. A number of Delawareans, no matter how much they disliked taxation, remained loyal to Great Britain. a Wilmingtown. 1777. You may want to start by searching for a person's Military Service Records and Pension and Bounty Land records. He was instrumental in improving care for the sick and wounded by redesigning the military hospitals used by the Americans. Transparency This Congress asked each colony to establish Committees of Inspection to enforce the boycott of English goods. Other accounts include the depreciation of pay to the Delaware Regiment. . The Middle Colonies and the Coming of the American Revolution. In June 1778 the regiment participated in the Battle of Monmouth Court House, as well as at Stony Point and Paulus Hook in the summer of 1779. 1. (Valley Forge Historical Society, 1941). List of invalid pensioners (photostat), 1790-1791, 10. The Delaware Loyalists. The 15th Massachusetts Regiment was raised on September 16, 1776, under Colonel Timothy Bigelow at Boston, Massachusetts, as part of Massachusetts contribution to the Resolve of 88 Regiments. Photostat. These records may include date and amount of disbursement, name of recipient and pension period, and signature of recipient. Records include original manuscripts and printed documents, photostats, and typed transcripts. These documents, available on microfilm, consist of legislation passed by the General Assembly. The rolls include an index to names of pensioners, including death dates when known, and an index to correspondence between pensioners and government officials. Photostat. Washingtons Army in Delaware in the Summer of 1777 (address by John P. Neilds). 10. Brunhouse, Robert L. The Counter-Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1776-1790. Delawares loyalty to Great Britain was tested when Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765 and the Townshend Acts in 1768. Delaware Regiments in the Continental Army - American Revolutionary War The Delaware States Privy Council, created by the 1776 Constitution, worked with the President. : Picton Press, 1998. Lists of pensioners detail the name, rank, amount of pension, and residence of the pensioner. John Dickinson: A Great Worthy of the Revolution. 8. Boxes 1-3 of the Dickinson Papers contain John Dickinsons correspondence relating to the American Revolution. Index to Maps of the American Revolution in Books and Periodicals. Originals of the Settlement of Revolutionary War Claims may be found in RG 1315.6, and of the Auditors Account Book in RG 1315.7. Cornelius Paynter(?) (Albany: New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and Champlain Valley Committee for the Observance of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution, n.d.). Encampment of the Army on Landing the 26th Aug. 1777. 1777 (4). As years passed family members and relatives also became eligible for a pension. [Campaigns of 1776 and 1777]. The General Assembly selected the four members, two by the House, and two by the Council. 1. Original, photostat. Recommendation for William Millan (photostat), 1776, 7. Hamilton, Edward P. The Champlain Valley in the American Revolution. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. 2. The Third Company, commanded by Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Blues, consisted mainly of Delawareans. In Buff and Blue: Being Certain Portions From the Diary of Richard Hilton. 1. At the Battle of Camden in August 1780, the Blues and troops from Maryland saved the Continental Army from destruction. Subjects of legislation include money bills, acts pertaining to the militia, punishment of treason, raising troops, punishment for desertion, the export of provisions overseas, pardon for those swearing allegiance to the state, the quartering of soldiers, ratification and amending of the Articles of Confederation, recovery of public debts, prevention of fraud within the quartermaster and commissary departments, suspending the use of Continental bills of credit as legal tender, protection of trade on the Delaware river and bay, and determining depreciation of pay. 1976. 6. : Riverside Press, 1903. Arthurs, Stanley. Matters were not helped by inflation. In May 1775, Kent Countys committee took action when the Pennsylvania Ledger published a letter from county resident Robert Holliday questioning Kent Countys revolutionary fervor. Additional information appears on supplies delivered, clothing purchased, quartermasters certificates taken up in taxes, and accounts of monies received from the Delaware State. American Philosophical Society. At the same time in Sussex County, loyalists were reported as gathering in large groups in an attempt to seize control of county government, with at least five British warships sitting in Delaware Bay. W. Dansey letter from Germantown camp (photostat), 1777, 23. Swedish Contributions to American Freedom, 1776-1783, vol. It is best to consult the lists following groups of documents. Black Camp insurrection depositions, 1780, Revolutionary War Records, Military Records, 1775-1908 (41 folders). New York: George Moore, 1890. Washington, D.C.: Harry Wright Newman, 1938. This, together with similar contingents from the other twelve states, formed the Continental Line.
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