3. On 31 December, the end of the enlistment term, only six men, officers included, remained. Pay roll of invalid corps, commanded by James McLane, 1784-1785, 19. Lafayette in Delaware. 5. They include letters asking for funds to defend the state, letters from Caesar Rodney asking individuals to break away from the British Crown, and correspondence between Rodney and the Assembly. Kent County, resolutions of the Council (photostats), 1776, 4. Delaware Regiment log, North Carolina, 1780, 28. These records may include date and amount of disbursement, name of recipient and pension period, and signature of recipient. 2. Martin, Lawrence. Washington, D.C.: American Revolution Bicentennial Office, 1975. The Kelly records include a declaration of service, affidavits, and a declaration of proof for Kellys widow Elizabeth. (Delaware State Museums, 1995). At the same time its farmers, businessmen, and sailors provided supplies to keep the American army in existence. 3. On 8 September, the British marched through Newark enroute to Philadelphia. Major Lewis Bush: A Correction. Typescript, n.d.. Munroe, John A. The vast majority of items are published in the first three volumes of the Delaware Archives: Military. XVII American Revolution Maps (vertical file). Abraham Wiles and Major Hitchens, letter from H. Ridgely, 1820, 55. 2. Ground Chosen and Entrenched by Washington to Fight Howes Army. (Price & Price, 1777). . Benjamin Gibbs re: army expenses, 1784, 32. Cecil County, Maryland Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Parliament bill relating to Delaware (transcript), 1775, 3. 7. Members were elected during alternate years for three year terms. Rowe, Gail Stuart. 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). Despite measures to control currency depreciation, the national extent of the problem did not allow for easy solutions. B. Lippincott and Co., 1870. 2 (1950). Top Consequences of the Battle . List of invalid pensioners (photostat), 1790-1791, 10. Corporations A rough chronological order is followed. 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. Coochs Bridge, Del. Voting & Elections Correspondents include General Charles Lee, John Hancock, Benjamin Rush, and General George Washington. Photostats include acts of Congress pertaining to days of fasting, and business of the Council including the exporting of flour to other states and to Bermuda, complaints against Deputy Quartermaster General Francis Wade, the appointment of a deputy quartermaster, the state schooner Delaware, and efforts to regain state papers captured by the British. Completing their service at Dobbs Ferry on 7 October, Neills men were sent home from Philadelphia on 22 October. 1. Delaware Courts Providence: Brown University Press, 1965. . Ryden George H[erbert]. These records have been published in two volumes edited by Claudia Bushman, Harold B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey (see bibliography section). Personal Income Tax Robert Wilcox petition, surgeon of the Second Delaware Regiment of Militia, 1780, 32. Military Uniforms in America: The Era of the American Revolution, 1755-1795. 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. 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. Entries show ledger number, account title, reason for disbursement (military, order of General Assembly, salaries, and services rendered to the state) or receipt (tax, fee, or fine collected), date of entry, totals, and reference to entry in a ledger. Ford, Paul Leicester, ed. Delawares veterans were ordered home toward the end of 1782. 2. Instructions for enlisting men, signed enlistment form, muster rolls, officer lists, regiment returns, receipts, muster rolls, subsistence accounts. RG 1922.004 DARBCMotion Picture Collection, 1976-1981. . Dover: Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1932. 8. 26. 8 talking about this. Delaware, resolutions of the Council, 1776, 3. A Committee of Correspondence was formed in October 1773 to communicate with other colonies. 19. Depositions, re: military service, 1785, 37. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1938. Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution. RG 1111.006 Council of Safety Minutes 1775-1776. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait and Company, 1846. Assembly members in Kent and Sussex Counties (scholars notes), 1776, 2. Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. 13. 1937. . ca. Settling of depreciation of pay to Delaware Regiment, 1786, 20. Record types contained in this collection include: Muster rolls Payrolls Strength returns Misc., personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units Topics of discussion include the forming of the second Continental Congress, events in America and England, a letter from woman sculptor Patience Wright, preparations for war, and Dickinsons commission as colonel for a Philadelphia militia unit, all in 1775. Thomas Rodney and General Cadwalader conversation, 1776, 16. Matchette, Robert B. These loyalists, or Tories, opposed the Whig cause. the name . Bushman, Claudia L., Herbert B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey, eds. 1. de Valinger, Leon Jr. Map of Dover, Delaware in Revolutionary Times. 1775, 1936. Dedication of State House/Independence Festival 76, event poster, 1976. 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. Folder 3 contains a journal of marches from Morristown, New Jersey through the Kirkwood companys southern campaign, 1780-1782. (12), A regiment of Delaware militia was called into service alongside the Continental Army in the summer of 1780. #391: The Declaration of Independence, four 1776 versions, 17. The Loyalists of Revolutionary Delaware. 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. 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. The Delaware Blues also continued their service. An index to the journal and order book found among the Kirkwood papers. Other topics of correspondence include the depreciation of paper money, Delaware legislation under consideration, and Continental Congress public abuses committee business. Vol Reel 0389 - American Revolutionary War Service Records; Soldiers--United States--Registers - Delaware, Hall's Regiment: Mc - Mi: Compiled service records of soldiers who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary war Captain Allen McLanes company of dragoons recruited in Delaware, and gained a id for themselves, whether on horseback or as infantry. Sellers, John R., et al., comps. During September and October, the British occupied Wilmington. 8. Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. Valley Forge Landmarks. Liberty and Independence: The Delaware State during the Revolution. 2, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Press, 1928. Phototstat. 5. Order: Troops to False Cape (American Archive transcript), 1776, 9. Atlas of the American Revolution. Books relating to the American Revolution may be found in the Research Room. 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). 1919. #354: Daughters of the American Revolution lineage book, 16. Schlesinger, Arthur M. Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776. A letter from Allen McLane concerning the attachment of his company to the Delaware Regiment, and correspondence from Arthur Lee at the height of the Lee/Deane controversy in 1779 may also be found. Cappon, Lester J. Atlas of American History: The Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790. Lt. Hunter of His Majestys Navy. . . These documents, available on microfilm, consist of legislation passed by the General Assembly. Plan du Camp . (Original painting in Delaware Public Archives.). (8), Few in the Delaware regiment took part in Washingtons attack on Trenton, or in the battle of Princeton. After Camden, the Delaware regiment was reorganized on two different occasions; first being divided into two companies, then being divided into three companies of light infantry with troops from Maryland. George Washington to Mordecai Gist, from Wilmington (transcript), 1777, 21. Photostat. Locations Directory The National Archives holds records relating to military service during the Revolutionary War, including both Continental troops and state troops that served as Continental troops. The term "Delaware Line" referred to the quota of one infantry regiment which was assigned to Delaware at various times by the Continental Congress. These records are meeting minutes of the Assembly, the lower house of the General Assembly, from the years 1776-1783. (1934). As years passed family members and relatives also became eligible for a pension. Oaths of New Jersey residents, administered by Caesar Rodney, 1777, RG 1800.110 Revolutionary War Pensions, 1778-1856 (1 Box). A Calendar of English Microfilms Relating to Delaware and Delawareans. Typescript, n.d.. . 1858. Soldiers awaiting depreciation certificates, 1779-1780, 21. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. 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. Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati. A number of letters dating from 1774 deal with events in America and England. Muster Roll of the Late Delaware Regiment now the First Company in the Second Battalion of Col. William's Regiment of Infantry serving in the Southern Army of the United States for the Month of November 1780 . History of Delaware, Past and Present. This guide, indicating and describing the scope of the Revolutionary War holdings at the Delaware Public Archives, will assist the researcher in finding both original and secondary source material. Delaware Memorial at Valley Forge. 198th Signal Battalion(First Delaware) Authorized 9 September 1775 in the Continental Army as the Delaware Regiment (also known as Haslet's Regiment) Organized 13 January 1776 to consist of the following companies under the command of Colonel John Haslet: Captain Joseph Stidham's Company - New Castle County. John Montressor journal extracts (transcripts), 1777, 16. Letters To and From Caesar Rodney, 1756-1784. (London, ca. 1. Loyalists in Delaware (transcript), 1790, 33. A Chart of the Delaware Bay and River. (Philadelphia, London, 1776). Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1942. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1972. Philadelphia: L. J. Richards & Company, 1888. The first Delaware regiment was no more. Photostat. The cards in this database list names, sometimes rank, and a volume and page reference to the source volume. 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. David Finney papers, re: Loyalists, 1777-1778, 7. 28. Access the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 records. Liberty and Independence: The Delaware State During the American Revolution. Delaware Today, September 1975. Photostat. Cambridge, Mass. This database contains an index to Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, 4 volumes. T. J. Wharton. 3. Commission of Francis Wade, Deputy Quartermaster General, 1779, 22. The General Assembly selected the four members, two by the House, and two by the Council. Folder 1 contains company reports, and journal entries from 1775, 1779, and after the Revolution. State Agencies Caesar Rodneys Ride: Wilmington, Chester, Marcus Hook and Penns Landing, (reel 2) helical scan videotape, ca. Delaware Archives, 3 vols. Citizens were required to take an oath of allegiance or declaration of fidelity to the new nation or the Delaware State and abandon all loyalty to the King of Great Britain. Hancock, Harold B. Orders to Thomas Collins, Kent Militia, n.d. 4. 2, 1950. Dickinson, John, with introduction by R.T. H. Halsey. . Princeton: Princeton University Press for the American Philosophical Society, 1951. RG 9200M10.000 Allen McLane Papers, 1777-1821 (1 box). Few regiments in the Continental Army have been given such attention as that of the 14th Continental Regiment, a short-lived band of brothers that history remembered for their grizzled, hard-nosed ruggedness and willingness to assist in some of the war's earliest, most dire moments. A Pageant of 1776. 1950. These records contain a variety of primary and secondary material. 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. The Delaware Loyalists. . Withholding Tax Entries show date of entry, account heading, payee or payer, reason for disbursement, or receipts, amount of receipt or disbursement, and daily balances. 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. The 1st Delaware Regiment in the Revolutionary War. Personal Recollections of Captain Enoch Anderson . (N.p., n.d). The Picket Post, miscellaneous issues, 1949-1973. . [Part of the modern counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, and Lancaster in Pennsylvania, New Castle in Delaware, and Cecil in Maryland. (1), The Stamp Act was repealed in 1766, and the Townshend Acts in 1770, except for the tax on tea. Revolutionary War Rolls Coverage Table Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. 24. They follow the proceedings of the Council prior to the colonies separation from the British Empire. Ohio, 1945). Letters from George Read, informing of Dickinsons selection to the Delaware General Assembly, and Charles Thomson regarding national finances, also date from 1780. . Some 300 of the 400 men from Maryland died, along with 31 of the men from Delaware. Their blue jackets with red facings and white waistcoat and breeches would later become the uniform for all the Continental troops. Blank forms and circulars are also included. . May 22 - The Delaware Regiment assigned to 1st Maryland Brigade ( Main Continental Army) under Brig. 20. Exportation of wheat to French and Spanish fleets (photostat), 1780, 26. Commissioners Report on Haslets and Pattersons battalions, 1776, 10. A Rising People: The Founding of the United States, 1765-1789. Harley, Lewis R. The Life of Charles Thomson. Ross, Howard DeHaven. Delaware played an important role in the formation of the United States of America, being the first to ratify the new federal constitution. Certificate of military service, 1787, 39. List of Continental officers who died in service/invalid pension applicants, 1777-1793, 3. Lt. Knight of His Majestys Navy. : Delaware Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1911. Charging at four in the morning, the Americans won without firing a shot. . There are appointments and commissions of officers and soldiers of the army, marching orders, and supply requests. . Wilmington : Historical Society of Delaware, 1896. Read, William Thompson. Washington passing through Wilmington on the way to the Battle of Brandywine. General Assembly 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. 16mm motion picture. 8. Other accounts include the depreciation of pay to the Delaware Regiment. 1781. Carpenter and Walker of Port Penn, 1778, Revolutionary War Records, Committee of Correspondence, 1774-1775 (7 folders), 1. Dover: Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, 1976. Kremer, Bruce J. John Hanson of Mulberry Grove. Monmouth Beach, N.J.: Philip Freneau Press, 1972. Delaware State Code Siebert, Wilbur H. Loyalist Troops of New England. Repr. To George McCall, for making cartridges, 1778, 14. Personal Recollections of Captain Enoch Anderson, An Officer of the Delaware Regiments in the Revolutionary War. RG 1315.009 Auditors Letterbooks, Eleazer McComb, 1784-1792. Position of the Division under Lt. Gen. Knyphausen at Cecil Church, Sep. 1777. 1777 (6). Before the Revolution: Yankee Doodle Comes to Delaware. Box 6 contains photostats of Tilton correspondence from throughout the Revolutionary period. 6. . Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record Administration, 1995. Photostat. John Booker, Virginia troops (Buckner Regiment), 1776, 10. The Assembly did not recognize Continental or state currency as legal tender after 1781. Hancock, Harold B. Caesar Rodney, George Read, and Thomas McKean: The Delaware Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Typescript, 1970. The Nehemiah Tilton papers folder contains photostats of two letters from 1782 dealing with current events and Delaware politics. Rockport, Me. Washington, D.C.: United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1932. #405: Aitkens Register account of Delaware, 1774, 20. Biographical Sketches of the Generals of the Continental Army of the Revolution. Peery, Lynn. Photostat. United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives. To the Delaware Pilots, copy. Captain Robert Kirkwood reimbursement, 1788, 21. Haslets men defended Chattertons Hill, retreating only as the American forces did. Roster and Ancestral Roll. Thomas Rodney to Caesar Rodney (transcripts, photostats, originals), 1776, 6. Dickens, Charles W., ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1954. http://FamilySearch.org : 28 April 2023. . A Compleat Plan of Part of the Province of Pennsylvania East and West Jersey 1778. R-89: Daniel Terry Boughner, Jr., George Read and the Founding of the Delaware State (Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University, 1968). Edward Roche to James Booth, from Valley Forge (photocopy), 1778, 25. Newark: University of Delaware, 1953. (N.p., n.d.). Delaware pensioners, . Recommendation for William Millan (photostat), 1776, 7. [French East Coast Map]. A Brief Sketch of Captain Joseph Davis and Lieutenant William Jones of the Pennsylvania Line. The 1st Delaware Regiment was raised on December 9, 1775 for service with the continental army under the command of Colonel John Haslet. Transcripts of correspondence between the first President of Delaware State and his wife. 29. Like most regiments of the Continental Army, the unit went through several incarnations and name changes. R-46.146.2: Delaware Papers, Colonial and Revolutionary Documents, at the Library of Congress, volumes I & II, III & IV. Proceedings of the Assembly of the Lower Counties on Delaware, 1770-1776, of the Constitutional Convention of 1776, and of the House of Assembly of the Delaware State, 1776-1781. Ten thousand men were requested, but no more than a few thousand were ever on hand. 1814. 16mm motion picture. : Raymond B. Clark, 1976. These files contain the minutes of the Council of Safety from the years 1775-1776. Another volume, also not published, Pension Rolls and Correspondence, contains information on pension applicants. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900. List of contributions for relief of Boston (photostats), 1774, 4. Entries for each account include disbursements for prisoners of war, the commissarys department, transportation, the hospital department, quartermasters department, contingent expenses, forage department, and for arms, ammunition, and ordnance stores. Revolutionary War Bibliography. (N.p., n.d.). RG 1325.226 Delaware Public ArchivesMotion Picture Collection. More Lee correspondence from 1780 is on file, as is correspondence with Caesar and Thomas Rodney. 12. Philadelphia: J. Crissy, 1839. Correspondence from 1783 can be found in Box 3 of the Dickinson papers. Rioting between Whigs and Tories postponed October 1777 elections in Sussex County. 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. Newark : University of Delaware Press, 1986. Sir Henry Clintons Map of Valley Forge and Vicinity. In 1777 the British shifted their attention to Philadelphia. Gross Receipts Tax Pension Rolls and Correspondence (1790-1846). Subjects include the Dover Light Infantry, time capsule placed in Willingtown Square, Rodneys Ride, Delaware Trust commissioned paintings, Separation Day celebration, the Old State House, and various local celebrations. George Washington and Delaware. Valley Forge Landmarks. 11. 9. . Davis, Burton. : Edward W. Cooch, 1940. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1864. As the imperial crisis continued, the Whig opposition to Parliaments policies pushed forward in the colonies. . . Duane, William, Jr. Folder 4 contains depreciation pay certificates from 1782-1784, and a list of Indian nations involved in the Revolution. Delaware Becomes a State. They include transcripts and photostats as well as original documents. The sixth volume listed here, containing miscellaneous Revolutionary War items, was collated but remains unpublished. Contains rules of order for the convention, which met to draw up a constitution for Delaware, as well as resolutions concerning the Flying Camp, delivery and payment for arms, and commissions. 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. 2. (Whitford, Pa.: Stephen Moylan Press, 1958). New York: New Viewpoints, 1973. In 1778, Benjamin Rush wrote Dickinson regarding the political situation in Pennsylvania, much correspondence between Dickinson and colleagues in other states exists from that year as well. Bevans, Wilson Lloyd, and E. Melvin Williams, eds. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1975. (1970). Valley Forge Historical Society. Descriptive information for maps may be found in the Maps card catalog. The Legislative Council, consisting of nine members, three from each county, served as the upper house of the General Assembly. Pay roll for Col. Samuel Pattersons officers, 1789, 40. Position of the Army at Brandewyne. 1777 (10). Military fines collected in Bucks County, 1780, 16. Ash, Mollie Howard, comp. Callahan, North. Civil War. 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. 25. Includes portraits of notable Delawareans from the Revolutionary period. 1781 (2). Atlas to Marshalls Life of Washington. 1976, RG 8005.046 Department of Public InstructionMotion Pictures Collection. Contains references to the Revolution, and poetic and prose descriptions of events at Trenton and Princeton in 1776-1777. 18. MMXXIII Delaware.gov, Revolutionary War Records, Committee of Inspection and Observation, 1775-1777, Revolutionary War Records, Continental Congress, 1776-1778, Revolutionary War Records, Loyalist Records, 1775-1783, RG 9200M10.000 Allen McLane Papers, 1777-1821, RG 9200R01.000 George Read Papers, 1764-1782. Deposition re: David Parker enlistment, 1780, 29. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. 9. After an attack to ravage Staten Island they marched south to oppose the British invasion of Delaware. 1778. . Revolutionary War Records Overview The Military Association, 1775-1777 At the beginning of 1775, Pennsylvania, founded under Quaker auspices, differed from other American colonies in being totally devoid of military organization. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1942. (Dover: Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1932). Cooch, Edward W. The Battle of Coochs Bridge. 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. Main, Jackson Turner. Payment to Captain McClements company soldiers, 1792-1793, 23. Box 2 contains correspondence from 1775-1782. Alexander Wylly (Georgia) to Samuel White, Speaker of the House, Massachusetts (photocopy), 1765, 2. The Third Company, commanded by Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Blues, consisted mainly of Delawareans. William Saunders, inventory and genealogy, 1820, 51. . Washington communicated with Dickinson concerning retribution for the murder of a Captain Huddy by Loyalists. Hundreds of New Castle County (transcripts from American Archives), 1775, 2. Society of the Cincinnati membership certificate for James Tilton, 1787. 2. Photostat. With the coming of war and changes in government, loyalists in Delaware moved beyond letter-writing and verbal comment. . 2. The Auditors sundry accounts include the Council of Safety, congressional delegates, George Read, the United States, and various officers. Relations Between the Continental Congress and the Delaware Legislature 1776-1789. Typescript, 1941. State treasurers accounts with Edward Pole, 1807, Revolutionary War Records, AccountsForfeited Estates, 1771-1790 (13 folders), 7. An Ordinance Ascertaining What Captures on Water Shall Be Lawful. 1781. VHS, 19 minutes. Many of the documents are noted as being true copies. Also available on Reference Reel R-77. : Family Line Publications, 1996. Carte de la Baye et Riviere de Delaware . Correspondence includes reports from the Treasury Department to loan agents concerning payment or inquiries about discrepancies, letters from the Navy Department after 1812, instructions on the issuing of money to heirs of pensioners, charts for determining payment, statements certifying the guardians of heirs, instructions on the payment of half-pay pensioners, and instructions on determining eligibility. [1] Organisation and Remusterings 90-Day Volunteers [ edit] Thomas Robinson (American Archives transcript), 1775, 3. Minutes and other papers (American Archives transcripts, photostats), 1775-1776, 2. The letterbook shows date, name of addressee, matters under consideration, and signature of Eleazer McComb. August 25 - British troops landed at Elkton Maryland, and marched into Delaware. Life and Correspondence of George Read. Painting by Horace Carpenter, 1917-1919. Captain Jonathan Caldwell's . . This convention of fifteen delegates met to protest the closing of Bostons port by the British. They arrived in Delaware on 17 January 1783. Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1935. . . Friedrich Adolph Julius van Wangenheim. Stamp Act Congress (photocopies), 1765, 2. : University Press, 1889). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. 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. Letter from David Hall, Council of Safety (photocopy), 1776, 8. Virginia Gazette facsimile copy, 1976. Its members included Thomas McKean, Caesar Rodney, George Read, John McKinly and Thomas Robinson. RG 9200T03.000 Tilton-Conrad Papers, 1782-1783 (1 box). R-36: John C. Powell, John Dickinson, Penman of the Revolution (Ph.D. thesis, University of Iowa, 1938). Tax Center During and after the war many major loyalist leaders left the state to join British forces or go to England or Canada.

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