Letter from President of the convention, New Castle County (photocopy), 1776, 10. Proceedings and correspondence, Kent County Committee of Correspondence (transcripts from Historical Society of Delaware), 1774-1775, 7. On 1 December 1776, the end of their enlistment, Patterson and his men returned home. Revolutionary War Period Material in the Hall of Records, 1775-1787: Four Little Known Sources. Offprint from Delaware History XVII, no.1 (1976). 1778. Clark, David Sanders. 5. #223: Broad Creek meeting of 20 June 1775 to support new union among the colonies, 11. Kent County (transcripts and photostats), 1775-1776, 3. 1777 (11). . New Castle Countys Committee of Inspection, the first organized in Delaware, vigorously pursued such dissent. Militia Accounts, Accounts of the Lieutenants . Fiore, Jordan D. Days of History: 200 Years Ago, Revolutionary Era. Letter from John McKinly (transcript), 1776, 9. On December 5, 2018, the State of Delaware announced that it had acquired the historic property at Cooch's Bridge, site of the only Revolutionary War battle to take place in the First State. 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. Orders on the State Treasurer to Pay Militia Officers, Arrangements . History of Delaware, 1609-1888, 3 vols. American Revolutionary War Records - Delaware - Genealogy Village As the imperial crisis continued, the Whig opposition to Parliaments policies pushed forward in the colonies. [French East Coast Map]. http://FamilySearch.org : 28 April 2023. Livingston recruited men from Chambly, Quebec as early as September 1775 MacNeill, Henry T., and Aime Junkers MacNeill. Dr. James Tilton was a physician and patriot who served with Haslets regiment and then as a surgeon to the Continental Army. An Account of the First Naval Battle of the Revolutionary War. (New Bedford Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, n.d.). (Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1896). 9. 7. Revolutionary War Records: National and Local From Original Manuscripts. Typescript, 1966. 1 (1931): 108-147. 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. 14. Baltimore: Southern Book Company, 1955. 5. National Archives and Records Administration Category: Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783 Painting by Horace Carpenter, 1917-1919. 10. 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. 1, Baltimore: Williams and Williams Company, 1915; Vol. Photostat. Receipts were not always dated or signed. Abraham Wiles and Major Hitchens, letter from H. Ridgely, 1820, 55. Thomas Lightfoot and Thomas Cockayne, 1777, 5. McLanes company annexed to Delaware Regiment ( document photograph), 1779, 23. Contains photographs taken to document Bicentennial celebration events and photos used in Commission publications. #405: Aitkens Register account of Delaware, 1774, 20. Letters regarding a shipment of supplies for British and Hessian prisoners date from that year, as does a circular from George Washington regarding raising troops, and a resolution of Congress regarding privateers. 2. 1775. The 1st Delaware Infantry Regiment, later known as the 1st Delaware Veteran Infantry Regiment was a United States volunteer infantry regiment raised for Union Army service in the American Civil War. R-75: Thomas Rodney Journal, 1786-1797. In August and September of 1776 a convention specifically arranged for that purpose drafted a constitution. On Saturday, June 1, at 10:30 a.m. historian Charles (Chuck) Fithian will present a program at the Delaware Public Archives about this legendary military unit. Public Meetings 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. 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. #25: Index of papers found in the New York Historical Society, re: Delaware, 4. Position of the Army at Brandewyne. 1777 (10). Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard. 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. The Americans were forced to retreat. This Congress asked each colony to establish Committees of Inspection to enforce the boycott of English goods. Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing, 1914. . Gilpin, Thomas, ed. Boatner, Mark Mayo. A Plan of the Delaware River from Chester to Philadelphia. 1777. Sandersons Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence. Relations Between the Continental Congress and the Delaware Legislature 1776-1789. Typescript, 1941. Color and black & white prints. . Andr, the British officer engaged in negotiations with Benedict Arnold, had been captured by American militiamen and hung as a spy. #96: Nicholas Way, loan to state, 1776, 8. 1976, RG 8005.046 Department of Public InstructionMotion Pictures Collection. and Daniel Jester, 1832, 69. In the spring of 1780, the Delaware Continentals were sent to the southern theater. New York: New Viewpoints, 1973. The materials are ordered in a rough chronological fashion. Corporations American Revolutionary War Bushman, Claudia L., Herbert B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey, eds. Original. 1. 11. Peery, Lynn. (Albany: New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission and Champlain Valley Committee for the Observance of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution, n.d.). . Ash, Mollie Howard, comp. General Howes proclamation (transcript), 1777, 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. 6. Royal Raiders: The Tories of the American Revolution. 8 talking about this. Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Delaware State, 1781-1792, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1792. Additional names can be found in the General ReferenceBiography database. Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. They first saw combat on 27 August, in the Battle of Long Island. 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. Meeting minutes include original manuscripts and printed documents, photostats, and typed transcripts. A few letters from Tilton written during the Revolution are interspersed with other documents in Box 3 (all are photostats). E-mail / Text Alerts Princeton: Princeton University Press for the American Philosophical Society, 1951. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. 1777. . American Revolution 1st Battalion Flying Camp (1776) - RevWarTalk Revolutionary War Bibliography. (N.p., n.d.). . R-26.1R-26.4: John Dickinson material in the R. R. Logan Collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. RG 9200K02.000 Robert Kirkwood Papers, 1777-1791 (1 box). 2 (1950). Coughlan, Margaret N. Creating Independence, 1763-1789: Background Reading for Children. Arthurs, Stanley. Baltimore: Read-Taylor Press, 1925. Anderson, Enoch, 1753 or 4-1824. . State Regulations Swedish Contributions to American Freedom, 1776-1783, vol. 1814. RG 9200R01.000 George Read Papers, 1764-1782 (3 folders). Publication. Organized in January, 1776 by Colonel John Haslet, the Delaware Regiment was noteworthy from the start as the best uniformed and equipped regiment of the Continental Army. 12. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Photostats include accounts of loyalist activities, military appointments, and a proclamation of a day of thanksgiving. Butterfield, L. H. Letters of Benjamin Rush. The regiment disbanded on January 1, 1783 at Charleston, South Carolina. Ross, Howard DeHaven. 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. One source of revenue was the seizure and sale of estates belonging to Loyalists. Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Company, 1900. Motor Travel, May 1925, June 1925. James Tilton of Delaware, 1745-1822: A Patriotic Doctor in Our Two Wars with Britain, which apparently was never published. Personal Recollections of Captain Enoch Anderson . Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record Administration, 1995. Transparency Letter from John McKinly for gunpowder (photostat), 1775, 4. Many soldiers and officers were drawn from Delawares militias. Amounts spent for clothing or provisions for companies or the regiment as a whole are among the items found in accounts. Philadelphia: J. Revolutionary War Rolls Coverage Table Learn more about the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls collection. . Photostat. At Long Island, the 1st Delaware Regiment (pictured here) fought alongside the Marylanders on the American right flank. Ketchum, Richard M., ed. . 1781. Muster roll, Delaware Regiment, Second Battalion, 1780, 30. American Revolutionary War. The Assembly consisted of twenty-one members, seven from each county, elected annually. A Chart of the Delaware Bay and River. (Philadelphia, London, 1776). 1976. With the coming of war and changes in government, loyalists in Delaware moved beyond letter-writing and verbal comment. [Coochs Bridge and Brandywine, from Plan General des Operation de lArmee Britanique . Another folder of photostats contains correspondence of government and military officials to Rodney in his role as militia general and as President of Delaware State, a letter regarding the recovery of some public records taken during the British occupation of Wilmington, letters of Rodney to the president of Congress, and correspondence of Caesar and Thomas Rodney. Rockaway, N.J.: American Faculty Press, 1975. ], ca. Dover: Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1932. 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. . Burnham, Smith. 10. 8. List of Maryland Military Units in the Revolutionary War [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. Rodneys papers include his will, administrative and legal papers, and letters. Pitz, Henry C. The Brandywine Tradition. Delawares veterans were ordered home toward the end of 1782. Only after 1822 do we find correspondence from individuals other than government officials or loan officers. After the Boston Tea Party and the closing of the port of Boston, the Committee raised subscriptions for the relief of Boston. Gen. William Smallwood. 3. R-73: Military Commissary Accounts, 1781-1783; Isaac Smith, Personal Accounts, 1781-1853; Pension file of Dennis Kell(e)y, 1832-1840. 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. The Nehemiah Tilton papers folder contains photostats of two letters from 1782 dealing with current events and Delaware politics. State treasurers accounts with Edward Pole, 1807, Revolutionary War Records, AccountsForfeited Estates, 1771-1790 (13 folders), 7. David Finney papers, re: Loyalists, 1779, 9. #354: Daughters of the American Revolution lineage book, 16. 1777-1780 Delaware Line. (Wikimedia) Color print. They include transcripts and photostats as well as original documents. 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. Philadelphia: J. Sir Henry Clintons Map of Valley Forge and Vicinity. Joshua Fisher. : Family Line Publications, 1996. . . Buchanan, Roberdeau. 23. (a) Award authorized.The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the award, on behalf of the Congress, of a single gold medal of appropriate design to the First Rhode Island Regiment, collectively in recognition of their dedicated service during the Revolutionary War. the Queen's Rangers, were encamped six miles away, near the village of Mamaroneck. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1958. Washington communicated with Dickinson concerning retribution for the murder of a Captain Huddy by Loyalists. RG 1111.000 Legislative Papers, 1776-1783. . . In 1777 the British shifted their attention to Philadelphia. Philadelphia: J. Crissy, 1832. David Finney papers, re: Loyalists, 1777-1778, 7. Thomas Robinson (American Archives transcript), 1775, 3. George Washington and Delaware. Contains correspondence of John Dickinson, including letters to Caesar Rodney, Thomas Rodney, and others. Another volume, also not published, Pension Rolls and Correspondence, contains information on pension applicants. . Hamilton, Edward P. The Champlain Valley in the American Revolution. Photostat. Rioting between Whigs and Tories postponed October 1777 elections in Sussex County. 22. Orderly book of Caleb Prew Bennett at the Battle of Yorktown, 1781. Offprint from Delaware History IV, no. . Order: Troops to False Cape (American Archive transcript), 1776, 9. These records are arranged alphabetically by subject heading and thereunder chronologically. They follow the proceedings of the Council prior to the colonies separation from the British Empire. RG 1105.001 Proceedings of the Privy Council, 1778-1792. Whitford, Pa.: Stephen Moylan Press, 1958. Wilmington : Historical Society of Delaware, 1896. It was organized in the spring at Baltimore, Maryland (three companies) and Annapolis, Maryland (six companies) under the command of Colonel William Smallwood consisting of eight companies and one light infantry company from the northern . Wagon Brigade under Direction of Colonel Francis Wade, Regiment returns, pay rolls, account of discharges. Elting, John Robert. (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. 2. These files, also on microfilm, contain records created or acted upon by the General Assembly of Delaware. The First Seminole War. Civil War. The Delaware States Privy Council, created by the 1776 Constitution, worked with the President. 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. This database contains an index to Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, 4 volumes. Delaware's Colonel John Haslet (1727-1777) - Journal of the Delaware Society of the Sons of the American Revolution - Battle of 1937. T. J. Wharton. 4. . 16mm motion picture. (12), A regiment of Delaware militia was called into service alongside the Continental Army in the summer of 1780. Payment to Captain McClements company soldiers, 1792-1793, 23. Index to Maps of the American Revolution in Books and Periodicals. 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. 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. . Cecil County, Maryland Signers of the Declaration of Independence. (London, 1777). Delawares loyalty to Great Britain was tested when Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765 and the Townshend Acts in 1768. Entries show date of entry, account heading, payee or payer, reason for disbursement, or receipts, amount of receipt or disbursement, and daily balances. Delaware Society of the Cincinnati charter (photostat), 1783. Whiteley, William G. The Revolutionary Soldiers of Delaware. Supply and requisition of cartridges, n.d. 5. Access the United States, Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 records. The first Delaware regiment was no more. Pension rolls and correspondence are interspersed. A rough chronological order is followed. Delaware Society of the Sons of the American Revolution - Maj Robert #321a: The Declaration of Independence, translated into ten languages, 15. Map of the Original Thirteen Colonies (S. Augustus Mitchell, 1876). Catharine Meritt, re: William Dowdle, 1837, RG 1800.111 Military Pension Receipt Books, 1817-1829 (1 Box). (15), An important state responsibility during and after the war was establishing pensions for veterans. Only a few Delawareans prominent in the American Revolution are listed below. 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. List of contributions for relief of Boston (originals), 1774, 3. Philadelphia: L. J. Richards & Company, 1888. 14. #590: Robbery of the French treasury, 1783, 26. Despite measures to control currency depreciation, the national extent of the problem did not allow for easy solutions. (11), 1778 saw the American army ending its winter encampment at Valley Forge with a new sense of discipline and purpose; the British evacuated Philadelphia, shifting their focus to the south. The personal accounts date mostly from the 1800s. The Delaware Loyalists. (Charing Cross: William Faden, 1784). Delaware Regiment log, North Carolina, 1780, 28. Commanded by Col.s Habersham's /Rae Revolutionary War Rolls Coverage Table FamilySearch Photostat. . Samuel Patterson to President of Delaware State, 1783, 31. May 22 - The Delaware Regiment assigned to 1st Maryland Brigade ( Main Continental Army) under Brig. Battle of Camden - Wikipedia These loyalists, or Tories, opposed the Whig cause. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Monmouth and the Battle of Rhode Island.The regiment was disbanded on January 1, 1781, at West Point, New York. 1 (1967): 9-11. RG 9200M10.000 Allen McLane Papers, 1777-1821 (1 box). List of Continental Army Units in 1777 to 1780 - American Revolutionary War Murfin, James V. National Park Service Guide to the Historical Places of the American Revolution. Haslets men again guarded the rear of the army as the Americans crossed the Delaware into Pennsylvania. Script for Independence! (3), On 15 June 1776 the Assembly separated the Lower Counties from the British government and essentially from Pennsylvania as well. Rodney, George Brydges. Encampment of the Division under Lt. Gen. Knyphausen 29th August 1777. 1777 (5). While extensive, this list is not complete; please check the card catalog for references to states or particular persons. Commissioners Report on Haslets and Pattersons battalions, 1776, 10. N.p., 1927. . Captain Jonathan Caldwell's . (1), The Stamp Act was repealed in 1766, and the Townshend Acts in 1770, except for the tax on tea. Rowe, Gail Stuart. (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. . Declaration of Commission, Light Infantry Company of Dover, 1976. Photostat. Biographical Sketches of the Loyalists of the American Revolution, with an Historical Essay. #302: Minutes of the Privy Council of Delaware, 1778-1792, 13. The letterbook shows date, name of addressee, matters under consideration, and signature of Eleazer McComb. Landing at the Head of Elk in Maryland, British forces marched through Delaware. Volume II: Military and Naval (1777-ca. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1972. Help Center 4. 4. . (8), Few in the Delaware regiment took part in Washingtons attack on Trenton, or in the battle of Princeton. Rules and articles, Delaware Troops, n.d. 2. U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 - Ancestry Pay roll for Col. Samuel Pattersons officers, 1789, 40. Hancock, Harold B. The Delaware Colony. Thomas McKean: The Shaping of an American Republicanism. Battle of Brandywine in Which the Americans Were Defeated . : Delaware Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1911. Before the Revolution: Yankee Doodle Comes to Delaware. They arrived in Delaware on 17 January 1783. Caesar Rodneys Ride: Wilmington, Chester, Marcus Hook and Penns Landing, (reel 2) helical scan videotape, ca. Beach, John W. The Cape Henlopen Lighthouse. Schlesinger, Arthur M. Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776. . 1st Delaware Regiment | Newark DE - Facebook Parliament bill relating to Delaware (transcript), 1775, 3. . 26. The man is William Dansey, a British Army officer, who captured that flag 242 years ago in September 1777 during fighting in the area shortly . About U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 This database is a collection of records kept by the National Archives listing men who fought for the colonies in the American Revolutionary War. In this arrangement, similar to that of other new states, the legislative branch was more powerful; as well as choosing the executive, it also nominated justices of the peace.(4). 16mm motion picture. Dickens, Charles W., ed. Washingtons Army in Delaware in the Summer of 1777 (address by John P. Neilds). Washingtons Official Map of Yorktown (Washington: National Archives, 1952). 20. Road from Coochs Bridge to Elk Court House . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935. Oaths of Allegiance show the oath taken, name of person sworn before, date of oath, and signature of person taking the oath. Wilmington: Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1911. Carte de la Baye et Riviere de Delaware . . Photostat. The only possible escape route was to cross under heavy fire, a marshy area about eighty yards wide called Gowanus Creek. Second Seminole War. The coat length was slightly shorter than a normal regimental coat in 1776. 19. 12. They camped near Newark, Delaware. Box 2 contains correspondence from 1775-1782. Black Camp insurrection depositions, 1780, Revolutionary War Records, Military Records, 1775-1908 (41 folders).
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