Preparations for peace were a topic of discussion, as were soldiers pay and reimbursement for the medical services of Dr. James Tilton. These records are arranged alphabetically by subject heading and thereunder chronologically. Contains two folders pertaining to McLanes Revolutionary War activities. Gen. William Smallwood. Color and black & white prints. Rules and articles, Delaware Troops, n.d. 2. Photostat. Swedish Contributions to American Freedom, 1776-1783, vol. (Whitford, Pa.: Stephen Moylan Press, 1958). . Peery, Lynn. Includes portraits of notable Delawareans from the Revolutionary period. Orders to Thomas Collins, Kent Militia, n.d. 4. These files contain the minutes of the Council of Safety from the years 1775-1776. RG 1325.036 Photographs, General CollectionPortraits. The Battle of Camden (August 16, 1780), also known as the Battle of Camden Court House, was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.On August 16, 1780, British forces under Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the numerically superior U.S. forces led by Major General Horatio Gates about four miles north of Camden, South Carolina . Vindication of Col. David Hall (photostat), 1790, 41. 1778. . These records may be found on microfilm. RG 1325.226 Delaware Public ArchivesMotion Picture Collection. Pension rolls and correspondence are interspersed. 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. Coleman, John M. Thomas McKean: Forgotten Leader of the American Revolution. Wilmington: Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1911. Petitions include officers requesting payment, former President McKinlys request for reimbursement, and persons convicted of treason seeking leniency. Contains photographs taken to document Bicentennial celebration events and photos used in Commission publications. This was true in Delaware as well. Washington, D.C.: Harry Wright Newman, 1938. MacNeill, Henry T., and Aime Junkers MacNeill. Francis Freeman, 1820 (African American Revolutionary veteran), 46. This convention of fifteen delegates met to protest the closing of Bostons port by the British. Many went home during the retreat through New Jersey; on 22 December, along with eight officers, 92 men were present and fit for duty. Brown, Wallace. 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). 1781. The only possible escape route was to cross under heavy fire, a marshy area about eighty yards wide called Gowanus Creek. The Assembly did not recognize Continental or state currency as legal tender after 1781. Contains references to the Revolution, and poetic and prose descriptions of events at Trenton and Princeton in 1776-1777. Peden, Henry C., Jr. Hancock, Harold B. Petitions, accounts and resolutions may be found, as well as communications and correspondence from the President and the Vice President of the Assembly and state officials. 15. 1. Although the conditions in Wilmington were better than at Valley Forge, Anderson "had the skin taken of his hands by the Frost." . History of Delaware, Past and Present. a Wilmingtown. 1777. John Hills. New Castle County barracks on Christiana Creek, 1779, 25. 5. During one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War, the actions of these brave soldiers would earn them the venerated name of the Maryland 400. Only a few Delawareans prominent in the American Revolution are listed below. 1820. Munroe, John A. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. The General Assembly selected the four members, two by the House, and two by the Council. Delaware Infantry Regiment, 1st. Thomas Robinson (American Archives transcript), 1775, 3. 13. RG 1315.008 Auditor of Accounts Waste Book, 1784-1796. #88: Continental EmissionUnited States account of taxes paid by Delaware, 7. The Dr. ], ca. . #96: Nicholas Way, loan to state, 1776, 8. B. Lippincott Company, 1948. (1943). James Tilton letters folder contains a typescript copy of a letter from Tilton referring to George Washingtons resignation as commander of the Continental Army. 3. 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. Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. James Tilton of Delaware, 1745-1822: A Patriotic Doctor in Our Two Wars with Britain, which apparently was never published. Only a few documents relating to the Revolution are found here: a letter from December 1765 regarding the Stamp Act crisis, and letters from December 1767, and January and April 1768 regarding Dickinsons Farmers Letters. Letters from Arthur Lee in February 1770 and January 1771 discuss the political situation in England. Declaration of Commission, Light Infantry Company of Dover, 1976. 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. 1. 26. Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. Conrad, Henry. 1915 painting by Stanley Arthurs. 16. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1958. Photostat. 1. The Kings Friends: The Composition and Motives of the American Loyalist Claimants. Color print. #15: Revolutionary activities and Coochs Bridge, by M. Dunn, 3. Phototstat. Road from Coochs Bridge to Elk Court House . 32. On 3 September 1777 they were met at Coochs Bridge on the Christina Creek, just south of Newark, by about 700 American troops led by Brigadier General William Maxwell. []. R-89: Daniel Terry Boughner, Jr., George Read and the Founding of the Delaware State (Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University, 1968). Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Company, 1900. Commissary and personal accounts are intermingled. 10. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1977. RG 1111.006 Council of Safety Minutes 1775-1776. 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. R-75: Thomas Rodney Journal, 1786-1797. Depreciation Certificates of Delaware Regiment, 1783-1799, 18. 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. Acts of Congress concerning hospitals are also included (typescript copies). Battles. 1. 1777-1780 Georgia Line. 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. of Militia Against the Delaware State, Memorials and Petitions in the General Assembly, Notes made by Elaezer McComb, Auditor of Accounts, while settling claims with the Commission on the part of the United States, List of . Depreciation certificates were issued to soldiers to be redeemed at a later date, as Continental currency by 1780 was worthless. : Family Line Publications, 1996. Stamp Act Congress (photocopies), 1765, 2. 0:22 In his memoirs, Enoch Anderson, a freshly minted lieutenant in the First Delaware Regiment, described his rude introduction to Gen. John Dagworthy, a no-nonsense veteran of decades of. General William Alexander, self-proclaimed as Lord Stirling, took command of the Marylanders and the First Delaware Regiment. of every person placed on the pension list . 24. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900. 20. Documents; Records; Time-Line; Regiments. Dickinsons correspondence from 1779 includes letters from colleagues, commentary on current events, and letters from Caesar Rodney regarding war-related matters. . Sabine, Lorenzo. MacNeill, Henry T., and Aime Junkers MacNeill. 4. . Unveiling and Preservation of the Monument Erected on the Dover Green. (Wilmington: Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati, 1912). Carte de la Baye et Riviere de Delaware . This, together with similar contingents from the other twelve states, formed the Continental Line. Delawares Committees of Inspection also reported on suspected cases of speculation, discouraged dissent against the American cause, and encouraged the production of native goods such as wool. The George Washington Atlas. 7. [Part of the modern counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, and Lancaster in Pennsylvania, New Castle in Delaware, and Cecil in Maryland. Theophilus Park to Rodney (photostat), 1776, 11. Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition grand prize certificate, 1926. The Third Company, commanded by Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Blues, consisted mainly of Delawareans. Bellas, Henry Hobart, ed. . Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, Colonial and Church, from Original Sources, Vol. Commission of Francis Wade, Deputy Quartermaster General, 1779, 22. This database contains an index to Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, 4 volumes. Main, Jackson Turner. #223: Broad Creek meeting of 20 June 1775 to support new union among the colonies, 11. Camp Near Carsons Tavern; The 2nd of Sept. 1777. 1777 (6). 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 Photostat. 1791. The American Heritage Book of the American Revolution. 1. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1975. They camped near Newark, Delaware. 5. Settling of depreciation of pay to Delaware Regiment, 1786, 20. Sir Henry Clintons Map of Valley Forge and Vicinity. Delaware Regiments in the Continental Army - American Revolutionary War Many soldiers and officers were drawn from Delawares militias. . New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1929. General Patterson, punching money and Continental Loan officer salary, n.d. 2. 3. (Valley Forge Historical Society, 1949). Their term of service ended 3 November 1780.(13). During and after the war many major loyalist leaders left the state to join British forces or go to England or Canada. 1st Delaware Infantry Regiment - Wikipedia United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives. Contains a range of material from Dickinsons life, including correspondence, accounts and receipts, business of the Continental Congress and the Delaware State, drafts of the Articles of Confederation, and other materials relating to the American Revolution. Photostat. Photostat. . Personal Recollections of Captain Enoch Anderson, An Officer of the Certificate of military service, 1787, 39. Contains copies of letters written on public business. Dickens, Charles W., ed. Dover: Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, 1976. John Montressor journal extracts (transcripts), 1777, 16. (N.p., n.d). . McGregor, Samuel. They arrived in Delaware on 17 January 1783. Officer rosters, regiment returns, pay rolls, muster rolls, casualty reports, list of officers and men to be struck from muster rolls, reports to the President of Delaware State, lists of prisoners of war, list of discharges, inspection reports, passes. Also available on Reference Reel R-77. Andr, the British officer engaged in negotiations with Benedict Arnold, had been captured by American militiamen and hung as a spy. Philadelphia: J. These records contain the following subjects: Accounts, Committee of Correspondence, Committee of Inspection and Observation, Committee of Safety (Pennsylvania), Continental Congress, Correspondence, Council of Safety, General Assembly, Loyalists, Military Records, Miscellaneous Records, and Privateer Records. Schlesinger, Arthur M. Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776. An index to the journal and order book found among the Kirkwood papers. Cities & Towns At Long Island, the 1st Delaware Regiment (pictured here) fought alongside the Marylanders on the American right flank. Texas Revolutionary War. Military Uniforms in America: The Era of the American Revolution, 1755-1795. John Booker, Virginia troops (Buckner Regiment), 1776, 10. In September 1775 leaders from the three counties formed a Council of Safety to confirm the appointment of militia officers, draft militia regulations, and raise and supply troops, as requested by the Continental Congress. Facsimile reproduction. 1st Delaware Regiment - American Revoluntionary War Wiki Charlottesville: Published for the Friends of the John Dickinson Plantation by the University Press of Virginia, 1983. : Raymond B. Clark, 1976. Descriptive information for maps may be found in the Maps card catalog. 1777, 11. The Battle of Long Island - National Guard 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. 7. Ketchum, Richard M., ed. RG 1105.001 Proceedings of the Privy Council, 1778-1792. RG 9200T03.000 Tilton-Conrad Papers, 1782-1783 (1 box). 2. Robert Wilcox petition, surgeon of the Second Delaware Regiment of Militia, 1780, 32. Ohio, 1945). Soldiers awaiting depreciation certificates, 1779-1780, 21. 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 . Early Sea Fights of the American Revolution. S.A.R. Battle of Cowpens, Conflict between Cols. Clark, David Sanders. (Charing Cross: William Faden, 1784). American Revolutionary War Records - Delaware - Genealogy Village Loyalists in Delaware (transcript), 1790, 33. Bond for Thomas Almond and Isaac Tussey, 1778, 6. Transparency Louder Calloway and John Stevens(on), 1829, 62. Joseph Reed wrote Dickinson, concerned over an error in Dickinsons Vindication. Washington, D.C.: United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1932. (9), More men was not long in coming. Miscellaneous items related to the Delaware Regiment and Delaware militia units. The First Seminole War. 14. Cecil County, Maryland Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mexican War. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Privacy Policy One source of revenue was the seizure and sale of estates belonging to Loyalists. Pension Rolls and Correspondence (1790-1846). George Washington and Delaware. Virginia Gazette facsimile copy, 1976. A Guide to Revolutionary War Records in the Delaware Public Archives, RG 1800.099 Delaware Archives (A series of 13 manuscript boxes, 1 volume of original records and 3 published volumes), RG 1800.066 Revolutionary War Records (3 boxes), RG 1800.109 Revolutionary War Oaths of Allegiance, 1777-1784 (1 Box), OTHER SERIES CONTAINING REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS, RG 9200T02.000 Tilton Papers, ca. Its members included Thomas McKean, Caesar Rodney, George Read, John McKinly and Thomas Robinson. 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 Delaware Loyalists. Delaware Marketplace Ryden, George H. Delaware Troops in the Revolution. Ash, Mollie Howard, comp. Reports of the Auditor of Accounts, Joint Committees of the Assembly . 13. (Wilmington: James and Webb, 1875). Burning of King Georges Portrait, event poster, 1976. The Maryland 400 (U.S. National Park Service) A Committee of Correspondence was formed in October 1773 to communicate with other colonies. Their blue jackets with red facings and white waistcoat and breeches would later become the uniform for all the Continental troops. Virtuitis Praemium: The Men Who Founded the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, 2 vols. Before and After the Battle of Brandywine: Extracts from the Journal of Sergeant Thomas Sullivan of H.M. Forty-Ninth Regiment of Foot. Typescript. Additional names can be found in the General ReferenceBiography database. Dating from the 1770s through the early 1800s, these records contain deeds, state letters, governors messages, votes of the Assembly, commissions to officials, communications between the Continental Congress and the state, and more. Revolutionary War Records: National and Local From Original Manuscripts. Typescript, 1966. 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. 29. Martin, Lawrence. Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Neill, the regiment served in northern New Jersey and along the Hudson River, serving as a garrison at Dobbs Ferry on the Hudson. Pension rolls from 1790 through 1846 are included (although not for every year inclusive). Its soldiers participated in many of the important battles of the war, and fought with bravery. The Assembly consisted of twenty-one members, seven from each county, elected annually. Photostat. American Revolutionary War #48: Delaware constitutional convention, 27 August-21 September 1776, 5. (3), On 15 June 1776 the Assembly separated the Lower Counties from the British government and essentially from Pennsylvania as well. Coughlan, Margaret N. Creating Independence, 1763-1789: Background Reading for Children. #391: The Declaration of Independence, four 1776 versions, 17. RG 9026.001 Prints and EngravingsRevolutionary War. 1st Pennsylvania Regiment (Revolutionary War) FamilySearch 8. Position of the Army at Brandewyne. 1777 (10). Letter from David Hall, Council of Safety (photocopy), 1776, 8. Kent County, (transcripts, photostats, originals), 1776, 4. The 1st Delaware Regiment in the Revolutionary War 11. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1954. 1779. These include letters concerning Committees of Correspondence, news of the war, the establishment of a hospital in Virginia, the conduct of army physicians, an account of the Delaware Regiments attack on loyalists at Mamaroneck, New York, the use of smallpox vaccine, Tiltons appointment as a hospital physician and surgeon, reports on sick and wounded, and Tiltons resignation from the Delaware Regiment in 1776. The Yorktown Sesquicentennial Celebration, 1781-1931: Its Purpose and Plans. Volumes IV and V of the Archives, dealing with the War of 1812, are not listed here. R-73: Military Commissary Accounts, 1781-1783; Isaac Smith, Personal Accounts, 1781-1853; Pension file of Dennis Kell(e)y, 1832-1840. #25: Index of papers found in the New York Historical Society, re: Delaware, 4. Drake, Edward. Baltimore: Read-Taylor Press, 1925. John Glover and the Marblehead Men of Massachusetts Most of the Continental Army was disbanded after the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War in 1783. History of Delaware, 1609-1888, 3 vols. 1. Commission issued by the Vice Admiralty Court, Bermuda, against American shipping, to Robert Burton, 1782, 6. Weather & Travel, Contact Us 1937. Circular letters of Robert Morris, 1781, 27. Mobile Apps 6. 16. 2. Members were elected during alternate years for three year terms. . Delawares veterans were ordered home toward the end of 1782. Entries show date of entry, account heading, payee or payer, reason for disbursement, or receipts, amount of receipt or disbursement, and daily balances. Volume 1. Folder 4 contains depreciation pay certificates from 1782-1784, and a list of Indian nations involved in the Revolution. #405: Aitkens Register account of Delaware, 1774, 20. Matters were not helped by inflation. on Taking up Arms in 1775. Photostat. 1818, &c. Washington, D. C.: Gales & Seaton, 1820; repr. They first saw combat on 27 August, in the Battle of Long Island. During September and October, the British occupied Wilmington. These records are meeting minutes of the Assembly, the lower house of the General Assembly, from the years 1776-1783. RG 1922.000 Delaware American Revolution Bicentennial Commission (DARBC)Administrative Records, 1969-1977. 10. Washingtons Official Map of Yorktown (Washington: National Archives, 1952). From the autumn of 1777 through June 1778, the British purchased supplies in New Castle and Port Penn. 1778. Also available on Reference Reel R-77. 2. 18. General John Sullivans Indian Expedition, 1779. (Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1929). Archibald Anderson, MSA SC 3520-16758 - Maryland State Archives Thomas Lightfoot and Thomas Cockayne, 1777, 5. : Picton Press, 1998. . After the loss of Forts Washington and Lee in November, the American army withdrew from New York into New Jersey, with British troops in pursuit. A catalogue of the muster rolls, pay rolls, and miscellaneous papers pertaining to the Delaware troops in the Revolutionary War: Collected in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1908, Revolutionary War Records, Miscellaneous, 1765-1787 (3 folders), 1. R-36: John C. Powell, John Dickinson, Penman of the Revolution (Ph.D. thesis, University of Iowa, 1938). 8 talking about this. Deposition re: David Parker enlistment, 1780, 29. Calhoon, Robert McCluer. American Revolutionary War. 2. Pension Receipts 1821-1822 (2 folders), RG 1315.006 Revolutionary War Veterans Accounts with the United States Government, 1776-1787. . Caesar Rodney letters (photostat), 1776, 15. . Harley, Lewis R. The Life of Charles Thomson. (Also contains information on the Delaware regiments of the Continental Army) General orders, muster rolls, returns of provisions, pay rolls, lists for depreciation of pay, a history of the Delaware line, commissary accounts, extracts from the Minutes of the Privy Council, recruiting accounts, exchange of prisoners of war, miscellaneous receipts and accounts, women members of the Delaware Regiment, extracts from the State Auditors journal, miscellaneous items. The committee persuaded Holliday to sign a statement disavowing his letter. State Regulations 1. Buchanan, Roberdeau. 5. Plan du Camp . 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. Regiment returns, expenditure accounts, supply requisition, receipt for supplies, officer rosters, receipt for pay, account voucher, list of pay rates, salary listing, Assembly resolution appointing commissioners of inspection, officer evaluations, commissioners reports, muster rolls, subsistence rolls. 1. Arthurs, Stanley. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting . A Revolutionary War-era flag from the First State and the man who captured it are having a reunion of sorts. I & II. Muster rolls may contain such information as a soldiers name, rank, age, birthplace, residence, occupation, enlistment date and location, muster-in date and location, mustering officer, term of enlistment, pay dates and amounts, and transfer and promotion data. . Soundings . Delaware, resolutions of the Council, 1776, 3. Delaware Line - Wikipedia Additional information appears on supplies delivered, clothing purchased, quartermasters certificates taken up in taxes, and accounts of monies received from the Delaware State. from The New England Quarterly IV, no. Original letters discuss state and national affairs of the 1780s, and loyalists in Delaware in 1776. Delaware Archives, 3 vols. New York: New Viewpoints, 1973. The Continental Powder Mill on French Creek . Exportation of wheat to French and Spanish fleets (photostat), 1780, 26. Reed, H. Clay. More commonly known as a day book, the waste book contains initial recordings of daily receipts and disbursements. 29 Camp a Wilmington. 1781 (1). Significant Campaigns and Battles in 1776 and 1777. (Philadelphia: C.F. Ferguson, Bessie Brockson. Declaration of Independence, mounted reproduction on wood. . 16. (ca. Oyer and Terminer, Cheney Clow and others, treason, 1775-1782, 4. On Pale Rider! Ryden George H[erbert]. The Middle Colonies and the Coming of the American Revolution.
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