. 10. Documents; Records; Time-Line; Regiments. Orders to Thomas Collins, Kent Militia, n.d. 4. Declaration of Independence, mounted reproduction on wood. The rolls may also list deserters and killed, ill, or discharged soldiers. A Compleat Plan of Part of the Province of Pennsylvania East and West Jersey 1778. (Charing Cross: William Faden, 1784). : University Press, 1889). The Third Company, commanded by Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Blues, consisted mainly of Delawareans. 1818, &c. Washington, D. C.: Gales & Seaton, 1820; repr. Loyalists remaining in the area staged raids on the Delaware coast, even as the British attacked area shipping. Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. Lefferts, Charles Mackubin. New York: New Viewpoints, 1973. 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. While extensive, this list is not complete; please check the card catalog for references to states or particular persons. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Amounts spent for clothing or provisions for companies or the regiment as a whole are among the items found in accounts. The British captured Delawares president John McKinly and seized many public records. The Maryland 400 (U.S. National Park Service) . 6. Correspondence re: Dover Light Infantry (photostat), 1776, 5. Cooch's Bridge, Delaware's Only Revolutionary War Battle Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956. Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Company, 1900. . Delaware Society of the Sons of the American Revolution - Battle of Certificate of military service, 1787, 39. Kent County (transcripts and photostats), 1775-1776, 3. Sir Henry Clintons Map of Valley Forge and Vicinity. George Washington to Mordecai Gist, from Wilmington (transcript), 1777, 21. 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. New Haven: H. E. Selesky, 1987. Nebenzahl, Kenneth. Philadelphia: L. J. Richards & Company, 1888. 7. Delaware Tercentenary Commission map of Delaware, with illustrations, 1938. R-57: Index of the Journal and Order Book of Captain Robert Kirkwood, 1777-1791. George Washington and Delaware. Caesar Rodneys Ride: John Dickinson, Dover, Smyrna, Odessa and New Castle, (reel 1) helical scan videotape, ca. RG 9200R08.000 Caesar Rodney Papers, 1773-1782 (1 box). . 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. These documents, available on microfilm, consist of legislation passed by the General Assembly. The American Heritage Book of the American Revolution. Contains correspondence of John Dickinson, including letters to Caesar Rodney, Thomas Rodney, and others. 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. Drake, Edward. In the booklet for 1786, correspondence originates in Wilmington and concerns settling military accounts from the Revolutionary War. An act of Congress established the First Delaware Regiment on December 9, 1775, and the ranks quickly grew to over 725 men. 28. Order: Troops to False Cape (American Archive transcript), 1776, 9. An Allen McLane folder, with articles on efforts taken in the 1960s to restore his burial place, is among the four American Revolution folders. Wayne, 1806). (5) Throughout the war, bands of armed loyalists organized on several occasions, only to be dispersed by the militia or Continental troops. John Hills. From the autumn of 1777 through June 1778, the British purchased supplies in New Castle and Port Penn. General Assembly 5. #864: Proceedings of the Convention of the Delaware State, August 1776, RG 9270.002 General Reference Collection Biography. (Delaware State Museums, 1995). These records are arranged alphabetically by subject heading and thereunder chronologically. RG 1315.008 Auditor of Accounts Waste Book, 1784-1796. . On Pale Rider! Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935. Landing at the Head of Elk in Maryland, British forces marched through Delaware. . Pension rolls and correspondence are interspersed. Despite measures to control currency depreciation, the national extent of the problem did not allow for easy solutions. Map of the Original Thirteen Colonies (S. Augustus Mitchell, 1876). Boatner, Mark Mayo. 1781 (2). 8. Society of the Cincinnati membership certificate for James Tilton, 1787. R-50: James B. Jackson, A History of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Neills Second Delaware Regiment of Militia in the War of the American Revolution, 1959. (1970). The colony refused to use stamps, held protest meetings, sent delegates to the Stamp Act Congress, and boycotted British goods. 15th Massachusetts Regiment - Wikipedia Louder Calloway and John Stevens(on), 1829, 62. The Assembly did not recognize Continental or state currency as legal tender after 1781. 1965). The Battle of Long Island - National Guard 3. Committees to ensure compliance with boycott agreements were also formed. Depreciation Certificates of Delaware Regiment, 1783-1799, 18. The Nehemiah Tilton papers folder contains photostats of two letters from 1782 dealing with current events and Delaware politics. (10), The war had come to Delaware. One folder of photostats includes instructions to generals, transcripts of letters to state officials, correspondence with his brother Thomas on subjects of the day, letters to the General Assembly regarding acts of Congress, and a letter of 4 July 1776 regarding Rodneys vote on the Declaration of Independence. 'Beardless boy' kept Delaware coast secure during Revolutionary War 2. Rowe, Gail Stuart. Accounts not paid by Philip Barratt and Isaac Carty, n.d. 4. Lafayette to Washington (photostat), 1781, 29. Letters concerning Allen McLane (photostat), 1781, 30. . Pay rolls and regiment returns list the name, rank, and time of service of soldiers and officers. Colonial Delaware: A History. . The Delaware regiment took part in the battle of the Brandywine on 11 September as well as the battle of Germantown on 4 October 1777. Public Meetings It is best to consult the lists following groups of documents. A test act requiring a loyalty oath to the state government was instituted in 1777. A separate group of Delawareans led by Thomas Rodney were present at the battle of Princeton on 3 January 1777. On 19 October Cornwallis surrendered. Dickinson was a member of Congress, a militia colonel, and President of Delaware and of Pennsylvania during the Revolution. This convention of fifteen delegates met to protest the closing of Bostons port by the British. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1974. 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. 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. 1820. Rioting between Whigs and Tories postponed October 1777 elections in Sussex County. Jacob Bennett re: ships captured by the British, 1777, 19. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1938. Conrad, Henry. Delaware's Colonel John Haslet (1727-1777) - Journal of the Photostat. Photostat. . 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. 1. 1782. The regiment disbanded on January 1, 1783 at Charleston, South Carolina. 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. Delaware Society of the Sons of the American Revolution - Maj Robert : Delaware Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1911. These files, also on microfilm, contain records created or acted upon by the General Assembly of Delaware. Phototstat. 1777. [Campaigns of 1776 and 1777]. . Photostat. 1775. They first saw combat on 27 August, in the Battle of Long Island. Beach, John W. The Cape Henlopen Lighthouse. Archibald Robertson journal extracts (transcripts), 1777, 15. . McGregor, Samuel. Folder 4 contains depreciation pay certificates from 1782-1784, and a list of Indian nations involved in the Revolution. Governors Register, State of Delaware Volume I: Appointments and Other Transactions . Thomas Rodney and General Cadwalader conversation, 1776, 16. #405: Aitkens Register account of Delaware, 1774, 20. 1st Delaware Infantry Regiment - Wikipedia Andr, the British officer engaged in negotiations with Benedict Arnold, had been captured by American militiamen and hung as a spy. 2. Also available on Reference Reel R-77. In September 1781, after the battle of Eutaw Springs, British general Cornwallis retreated to Yorktown, where Washington and his French allies besieged the British forces. . Enlighten Me: Reuniting pieces of the First State's Revolutionary Battle of Camden - Wikipedia John Montressor journal extracts (transcripts), 1777, 16. Its soldiers participated in many of the important battles of the war, and fought with bravery. 1781. Record types contained in this collection include: Muster rolls Payrolls Strength returns Misc., personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units 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 . American Revolutionary War Records - Delaware - Genealogy Village As the morning progressed, the enemy began to encircle the Americans. : Raymond B. Clark, 1976. Letter from John McKinly for gunpowder (photostat), 1775, 4. : Edward W. Cooch, 1940. Gen. William Smallwood. Lists of pensioners detail the name, rank, amount of pension, and residence of the pensioner. 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. Blank forms and circulars are also included. Delawares contributions to American independence did not end with the war. (3), On 15 June 1776 the Assembly separated the Lower Counties from the British government and essentially from Pennsylvania as well. Contains copies of letters written on public business. A Topical History of Delaware. Delawares veterans were ordered home toward the end of 1782. 26. Other topics of correspondence include the depreciation of paper money, Delaware legislation under consideration, and Continental Congress public abuses committee business. 1791. Delaware Memorial at Valley Forge. 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. Ryden, George H. Delaware Troops in the Revolution. Brandywine Conservancy commemorates its preservation of key Brandywine Battlefield site on anniversary of the Revolutionary War battle. Reports of the Auditor of Accounts, Joint Committees of the Assembly . Delaware pensioners, . American Revolutionary War RG 1111.021 Proceedings of the Freemen . Pay roll for Col. Samuel Pattersons officers, 1789, 40. 16. 1. . . Receipts were not always dated or signed. Records include miscellaneous accounts and receipts, muster rolls, pay rolls, and regiment returns, General Assembly resolutions, proclamations, and drafts, correspondence, Auditor of Accounts reports, documents regarding the treatment of suspected loyalists, and petitions for pardon from those suspected of aiding the British. (14), During the war, the Delaware Assembly struggled to govern the state. 17. VHS, 19 minutes. Recommendation for William Millan (photostat), 1776, 7. 1778. 1st Pennsylvania Regiment (Revolutionary War) FamilySearch [Major] Andres Journal . Index to Maps of the American Revolution in Books and Periodicals. The only possible escape route was to cross under heavy fire, a marshy area about eighty yards wide called Gowanus Creek. [1] Organisation and Remusterings 90-Day Volunteers [ edit] 11. Officer rosters, muster rolls, regiment returns, pay rolls, provision and forage accounts, enlistment returns, certificates of service, depositions before justices of the peace, assignments of pay, receipts for pay, etc., from various soldiers. Despite Delawares small size, small population, and divided citizenry, the state played an important role in the struggle for independence. Murfin, James V. National Park Service Guide to the Historical Places of the American Revolution. David Finney papers, re: Loyalists, 1779, 9. Samuel McMastersJames Tilton correspondence (American Archives transcript), 1774-1775, 3. Anderson, Enoch, 1753 or 4-1824. . These records contain a variety of primary and secondary material. Volume II: Military and Naval (1777-ca. Edward Roche to James Booth, from Valley Forge (photocopy), 1778, 25. 4. In a 1777 letter to George Read, Dickinson wrote that he was unable to serve as a delegate for Delaware in the Congress. Requests for back pay/depreciation certificates, 1783, 35. American Revolution 1st Battalion Flying Camp (1776) - RevWarTalk Also contains a draft of A Declaration of Rights and Fundamental Rules, and the Delaware State Constitution. . Kent County, resolutions of the Council (photostats), 1776, 4. Wilkes-Barre: Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, 1897. Guthorn, Peter J. British Maps of the American Revolution. 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. Colonel John Haslet to General Rodney (transcript), 1776, 7. Newark: Curtis Paper Company, 1964. Reed, H. Clay. (Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association, Inc., 1931). 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. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1933). 4. 2. Coleman, John M. Thomas McKean: Forgotten Leader of the American Revolution. 5. An Ordinance Ascertaining What Captures on Water Shall Be Lawful. 1781. Bond for Thomas Almond and Isaac Tussey, 1778, 6. An Account of the First Naval Battle of the Revolutionary War. (New Bedford Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, n.d.). You may want to start by searching for a person's Military Service Records and Pension and Bounty Land records. Flower, Milton E. John Dickinson, Conservative Revolutionary. Neilds, John P. Washingtons Army in Delaware in the Summer of 1777. (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. Bushman, Claudia L., Herbert B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey, eds. At the battle of Cowpens, 17 January 1781, Kirkwoods men and their comrades played a crucial role in the American victory. Minutes and other papers (American Archives transcripts, photostats), 1775-1776, 2. RG 1325.226 Delaware Public ArchivesMotion Picture Collection. Photostat. RG 1325.036 Photographs, General CollectionPortraits. Lafayette Day Committee. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1942. Original. Colonel Hall was wounded at Germantown. David Finney papers, re: Loyalists, 1777-1778, 7. These loyalists, or Tories, opposed the Whig cause. (7, In October 1776, as fighting continued around New York, the Delaware regiment was chosen to engage the Queens American Rangers, a Loyalist force camped at Mamaroneck, New York. 11. RG 9200R01.000 George Read Papers, 1764-1782 (3 folders). 2. Jones, Elias. General Dagworthy and John Jones to Caesar Rodney (photostat), 1777, 22. Brunhouse, Robert L. The Counter-Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1776-1790. Martin, Lawrence. . Like most regiments of the Continental Army, the unit went through several incarnations and name changes. List of contributions for relief of Boston (originals), 1774, 3. The initial uniform of the 1st Delaware Regiment was that of a short blue regimental coat faced with red facings and turnbacks. He was instrumental in improving care for the sick and wounded by redesigning the military hospitals used by the Americans. 1777-1780 Delaware Line. Ford, Paul Leicester, ed. the name . John Glover and the Marblehead Men of Massachusetts Lewes meeting, examination of American grievances (transcripts from American Archives), 1774, 6. 12. Read, William Thompson. Richard Derring petition re: debts (photocopy), 1787, Revolutionary War Records, Privateer Records, 1778-1782 (4 folders, 1 oversized box), 1. Westminster, Md. Rules and articles, Delaware Troops, n.d. 2. New York: George Moore, 1890. 1919. Samuel Patterson to President of Delaware State, 1783, 31. 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. Publication. Adjusted and allowed claims, 1792-1796, 12. Other accounts include the depreciation of pay to the Delaware Regiment. 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). Delaware, resolutions of the Council, 1776, 3. Soundings . Ash, Mollie Howard, comp. 1st Georgia Regiment. These records have been published in two volumes edited by Claudia Bushman, Harold B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey (see bibliography section). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1974. 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. 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. Only after 1822 do we find correspondence from individuals other than government officials or loan officers. In 1777 the British shifted their attention to Philadelphia. August 25 - British troops landed at Elkton Maryland, and marched into Delaware. Brandywine Conservancy commemorates its preservation of key Brandywine Their term of service ended 3 November 1780.(13). . Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1975. Caesar Rodneys Arrival at Independence Hall, 1776. [1] The letter folders, containing both photostats and originals, are a mixture of personal and official correspondence. These records may include date and amount of disbursement, name of recipient and pension period, and signature of recipient. 4. (Multiple sections of a map of the mid-Atlantic states)]. Coochs Bridge, Del. George Washington and Delaware. A Chart of the Delaware Bay and River. (Philadelphia, London, 1776). Those who refused were ineligible to hold office, vote or serve on juries. 20. Commission issued by the Vice Admiralty Court, Bermuda, against French shipping, to Robert Burton, 1782. Caesar Rodneys Ride: Wilmington, Chester, Marcus Hook and Penns Landing, (reel 2) helical scan videotape, ca. Life of the Honorable Thomas McKean L. L. D. Lancaster, Pa.: Inquirer Printing Company, 1890. Clark, Raymond B., Jr. Maryland Revolutionary Records: How to Find and Interpret Them. With Haslets death, Colonel David Hall was given command. Theophilus Park to Rodney (photostat), 1776, 11. Matters of business include Delawares separation from the British Crown and a call for a constitutional convention, an order for the arrest of Thomas Robinson, the making of a new state seal, provisions for the defense of the state, calls for days of fasting or thanksgiving, raising and payment of troops, punishments for treason, appointment of delegates to the Continental Congress, legislation against impressment, the Declaration of Independence, a report on the disaffection of Sussex County residents, money for the clothing of troops, currency issues, rations for the families of soldiers, the state schooner Delaware, the procurement of arms, Frances place in peace negotiations, adjustment of depreciation scales, relief for the widows and children of Delaware troops, and a tombstone for Colonel John Haslets gravesite. Cities & Towns Encampment of the Army on Landing the 26th Aug. 1777. 1777 (4). Washington communicated with Dickinson concerning retribution for the murder of a Captain Huddy by Loyalists. . (ca. Philadelphia: J. #391: The Declaration of Independence, four 1776 versions, 17. These records include lists of pensioners, correspondence about receiving a pension or payment of a pension, petitions to receive a pension, descriptions of military service, and affidavits supporting pension claims. : Family Line Publications, 1996. Entries show date of entry, account heading, payee or payer, reason for disbursement, or receipts, amount of receipt or disbursement, and daily balances. Wilmington: Delaware Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 1941. 21. . Matchette, Robert B. Parliament bill relating to Delaware (transcript), 1775, 3. Road from Coochs Bridge to Elk Court House . (15), An important state responsibility during and after the war was establishing pensions for veterans. Delaware Troops Leaving the Green, print of 1915 painting by Stanley Arthurs. Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. Charlottesville: Published for the Friends of the John Dickinson Plantation by the University Press of Virginia, 1983.
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