NATIONAL ARCHIVES MICROFILM PUBLICATIONS

PAMPHLET DESCRIBING M859

Miscellaneous

Numbered Records(The Manuscript File)

in the War Department

Collection of

Revolutionary War Records

1775 179O's

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

WASHINGTON: 1971

RICHARD NIXONPresident of (he United State!

ARTHUR F.SAMPSONAdministrator of General Services

JAMES B. RHOADSArchivist of the United States

The records reproduced in the microfilm publication

are from

War Department Collection

of

Revolutionary War Records

Record Group 93

in the National Archives Building

Reprinted 1973

1775-1790's

On the 125 rolls of this microfilm publication are repro-duced about 353500 "miscellaneous" numbered records (the "Manu-script File"), originals and copies, pertaining to RevolutionaryWar military operations, service of individuals, pay and settle-ment of accounts, and supplies. The records are part of the WarDepartment Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group93. Most of the original records are dated from 1775 to the early1790's, but some were created in the 19th century, generally inconnection with settling accounts and granting pensions to formerservicemen and their heirs. Most copies of records were made bythe War Department in the 1890's.

The War Department Collectionof

Revolutionary War Records

An act of August 7, 1789 (1 Stat. 49), established a Depart-ment of War in the Federal Government. The act provided that theSecretary of War should have custody of the records in the officeof the Secretary at War, the head of the previous War Departmentestablished by the Continental Congress in 1781. Most of theserecords were destroyed on November 8, 1800, by a fire that sweptthrough the building occupied by the Secretary of War. Furtherlosses occurred in August 1814 when British troops enteredWashington and burned Government buildings. At that time the WarDepartment's Revolutionary War records were in a fireproof roomand were not injured by the flames, but some were destroyed orcarried away by persons who entered the room after the fire. Asa result of these events there were, until 1873* few records ofthe Revolutionary War period in War Department custody.

In 1873 Secretary of War William Belknap purchased a privatecollection of Revolutionary War records for the War Departmentfrom Prof. Charles Joy of Columbia University in New York. Thepurchased items consisted mainly of records associated with theactivities of Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster General of theArmy from 1780 to 1785j and of Samuel Hodgdon, Commissary Generalof Military Stores and Assistant Quartermaster in Pennsylvaniaduring the latter part of the war. Secretary of War Belknap alsopurchased smaller quantities of Revolutionary War records fromother persons. In 1888 the records he accumulated were trans-ferred to the State Department, which was contemplating the pub-lication of the archives of the Government of the RevolutionaryWar period.

By War Department orders of July 3 and 16, 1889, a Recordand Pension Division "was established in the War Department totake custody of the military records of the volunteer armies ofthe United States and to transact the pension and other businessof the Department related to those records. The Division 'wasdesignated the Record and Pension Office of the War Departmentby an act of May 9, 1892 (2? Stat. 2?). Col. Fred C. Ainsworthbecame Chief of the Office, and at his instigation Congresspassed acts on July 2?, 1892 (2? Stat. 2?5), and August 18, 1894(28 Stat. 403), that directed the other executive departments ofthe Federal Government to transfer military records of the Rev-olutionary War in their possession to the War Department. As aresult, the records that the War Department had sent to the StateDepartment in 1888 were returned, accompanied by personnel re-turns, oaths of allegiance, and other military records removedfrom the George Washington Papers in the State Department. The'War Department also received military records of the Revolutionfrom the Pension Bureau of the Interior Department and from theTreasury Department's Office of the Auditor for the InteriorDepartment. The transfer of these records -was accomplished byseveral separate transactions between 1894 and 1913. During the1890's Colonel Ainsworth also borrowed thousands of RevolutionaryWar records from the States of Delaware, New Hampshire, New York,and Vermont. These were returned after copies had been made andadded to the files of the Record and Pension Office.

Two additional accessions of importance early in the 20thcentury substantially completed the War Department Collection ofRevolutionary War Records. In 1909 a body of records pertainingmainly to the activities of the Quartermaster General's Depart-ment during the Revolution was received from Henry Gv* Pickering,the great-grandson of Q.M. Gen. Timothy Pickering. In 1914 and1915 the War Department made photographic copies of RevolutionaryWar records in the possession of individuals and public and pri-vate institutions in Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Virginiato supplement original records and copies of records already inits custody.

The Miscellaneous Numbered Records(The Manuscript File)

Establishment of the Manuscript File

Most of the Revolutionary War records collected by the WarDepartment were distributed among a few large series of recordsaccording to their physical character or subject matter. Thus,the photographic copies of records made in several States in1914 and 1915 were kept together as one series because of theircommon physical character and origin. Similarly, most of theoriginal records in book form—mainly orderly books, letterbooks, receipt books, and account books—were uniformly reboundand consecutively numbered to form a distinct record series

based on their physical character as bound records. Musterrolls, pay lists, personnel returns, guard reports, and otherrecords showing the military service of groups of persons be-longing to particular regiments and other organizations wereplaced in a -large file of Revolutionary War rolls because ofsimilar subject matter. Most of the remaining records in the¥ar Department Collection of Revolutionary ¥ar Records weredesignated "miscellaneous" records, consecutively numbered, andplaced in a fourth large series of records that came to be knownas the "Manuscript File." The File was begun in 1898 and addi-tions were made as late as 1937.

Arrangement

The first and largest part of the Manuscript File was ar-ranged in 1898 and 1899 and consists of miscellaneous numberedrecords 1-30074. The plan of arrangement seems to have providedfor four major categories of records based mainly on the Statesand organizations to which the records pertained. Recordsjudged to relate to troops of particular States, whether in Con-tinental Army or militia units, were arranged in alphabeticalorder by name of State and thereunder by kinds of records, suchas commissions or pay receipts, and then numbered. Recordsrelating to Continental troops at large (those not raised by anyone State) were arranged and numbered next. These records, too,were filed somewhat by kinds of records but in no further dis-cernible order. Records pertaining to the activities of Conti-nental Army staff departments—the Commissary General of MilitaryStores Department, the Commissary General of Issues Department,the Paymaster General's Department, and the Quartermaster Gen-eral's Department—were formed into a third record categoryarranged by name of department, thereunder generally by bodiesof records of the same kind, and numbered. The remaining rec-ords were arranged and numbered as "miscellaneous" records,even though all records placed in the Manuscript File were, bydefinition, supposed to be of a miscellaneous character.

Many of the records in the Manuscript File that were arrangedas pertaining to a particular State or organization were notactually created by that State or organization. For example,miscellaneous numbered records 1-1080, arranged as recordspertaining to Connecticut troops, include commissions issued bythe Continental Congress to Connecticut officers, resignationsof individual Connecticut officers addressed to George Washington,and letters received by the Paymaster General concerning theaccounts of Connecticut officers and enlisted men.

When additional records were added to the Manuscript Fileafter 1899j they were given higher numbers and placed at theend of the file rather than interfiled among related recordsfiled earlier. An attempt was made to repeat the rudimentaryarrangement scheme followed in 1398 and 1899̂ but that scheme

was only imperfectly duplicated., partly because the additionalrecords were added piecemeal over several decades instead ofbeing accumulated, systematically arranged, and filed all at onetime as were the first 30,000 records.^

Although the Manuscript File includes records numbered from1 to 50208, it actually contains only about 35^500 discretenumbered items. Miscellaneous numbered records 31756-31862 weretransferred to the Navy Department on November 2, 1906, as navalrecords. Numbers 35501-49983 in the filing scheme were reservedfor the photographic copies of records made by the War Departmentin several States in 1914 and 1915. These records were keptapart from the Manuscript File and constitute a separate seriesnot reproduced in this microfilm publication. (A record numbered35501, apparently the result of an error in numbering, is in theManuscript File and has been reproduced in this publication.)Numbers 50000-50201 were assigned to a body of pension and half-pay application files for Revolutionary War servicemen, and thesefiles also constitute a separate record series not reproduced inthis publication. Explanations concerning a few other recordsnot in the Manuscript File are given in the notes to the rollson which these records otherwise -would have been filmed.

Generally, each discrete paper or volume placed in the Manu-script File was given a separate file number and its pages, ifmore than one, were paginated. Occasionally, discrete butclosely related papers such as lists of pensioners were allgiven the same file number and each sheet consecutively numberedas if it were a page in a volume. File numbers were stamped orwritten either directly on the records or on the heavy papersheets on which many records were mounted. In preparing therecords for microfilming, many had to be removed from the papersheets to which they were attached because the latter coveredwriting on the backs of the records. In such cases the part ofthe mounting sheet containing the file number was preserved andfilmed with the record to identify it. A few records at the endof the Manuscript File, mainly fragments, are not numbered.

Content

The records in the Manuscript File are varied in both phys-ical character and subject matter. Physically, most of therecords are unbound papers, but there are also a few paper-

Appendix A depicts the arrangement of the Manuscript Filein outline form. It shows that the records in the first part ofthe file (1-30074) are divided among fairly distinct divisionsand subdivisions based mainly on specific States and ContinentalArmy staff organizations. The remaining records are progres-sively more intermixed with regard to such distinctions and areaccordingly outlined with less precision,,

covered bound volumes. Many of the papers were once part ofbound volumes that were unbound before being added to the Manu-script File. About a third of the documents in the file consistof handwritten and printed copies of records, mainly records ofsoldiers of particular States. The remaining items are originalrecords.

The subject matter of the records in the Manuscript Filemainly concerns services performed by individual military offi-cers and enlisted men, the settlement of their pay and otheraccounts, the operations of several large staff departments ofthe Continental Army responsible for supplying and paying troops,and military operations. Certain kinds of records predominate.These include pay accounts of officers and enlisted men; accountsof supplies received and delivered; assignments of pay; certif-icates of nonindebtedness; commissions; correspondence betweenmilitary officers about military operations; letters sent andreceived by heads of Continental Army staff departments to andfrom subordinates and other military officers, civil officers,and private citizens about departmental matters (such as supplies,transportation, pay, and settlement of accounts); enlistmentpapers; letters of administration; military orders; oaths ofallegiance and of office; pay orders and orders for the deliveryof supplies; powers of attorney; receipts for supplies, pay, andother sums of money; resignations; returns of supplies and per-sonnel; and statements of service performed by individuals.There are usually hundreds of each of these kinds of records.

Among the kinds of records existing in smaller quantities(generally from two to three documents to dozens in each cate-gory) are abstracts of payrolls; abstracts of records of issu-ance of supplies; pay accounts of civilians; books showing re-ceipt and delivery of supplies; contracts for supplies; personalletters sent and received by Army staff officers; courts-martialproceedings; military discharges; estimates of needed supplies;final settlement certificates; inspection reports; inventoriesand invoices of supplies; lists of supplies, military organiza-tions, and pensioners; minutes of councils of war; muster rollsand payrolls; pension certificates; petitions to State legisla-tures; recommendations concerning the discharge of officers;registers of certificates issued in settlement of accounts; andresolutions of State legislatures and the Continental Congressconcerning military matters.

The War Department obtained the records placed in the Manu-script File from a variety of sources over a period of years.The sources of many of the records can be determined from stampsand annotations on them and from accompanying memorandums. The

2Appendix B is a list of the principal kinds of records inthe Manuscript File in the numerical order in which they arefiled and microfilmed,,

three principal sources thus identified are (1) other executivedepartments of the Federal Government} (2) State governments,and (3) private citizens. Most of these records were receivedfrom the first two sources. There are also many records thatare not stamped, annotated, or accompanied by identifying mem-orandums. 3

Indexes

Assigning file numbers and page numbers to the recordsplaced in the Manuscript File made it possible for the War De-partment to index them and three findings aids were compiled.The largest one is titled "Special Index" and contains entriesfor names of persons mentioned in the numbered records—mainlymilitary officers and enlisted men, Continental and State gov-ernment officials, and civilians. This index has been micro-filmed as Special Index to Numbered Records in the War Depart-ment Collection of Revolutionary War Records, 1775-1783 (M847).The second finding aid is a smaller index that lists the namesof officers and enlisted men for whom there are oaths, commis-ions, and resignations. The third finding aid is a subjectindex that contains entries mainly for names of ships, places,and organizations, and that also lists some records by type,such as commissions and oaths of allegiance. None of thesecompilations index the unnumbered records at the end of theManuscript File. All of them index other record series in addi-tion to the Manuscript File.

Related Records

Besides the Manuscript File and the indexes cited above,Record Group 93 contains the other large record series previouslymentioned as being part of the War Department Collection ofRevolutionary War Records: the photographic copies of recordsmade in 1914 and 1915* "the numbered record books, and the fileof muster rolls and related personnel records. The muster rollsand related personnel records have been microfilmed as Revolu-tionary War Rolls, 1775-83 (M246). Record Group 93 also containscompiled military service records for Revolutionary War service-men. These are summaries on cards of each soldier's service,compiled from records in the file of muster rolls and relatedpersonnel records and from some of the numbered record books.

Pension and bounty land warrant application files based onthe services of Revolutionary War military and naval personnelare in Records of the Veterans Administration, Record Group 15.They have been reproduced as Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty

3Appendix C is a chronological list of the sources of thoserecords in the Manuscript File that are stamped, annotated, oraccompanied by memorandums identifying sources0

Land Warrant Application Files (M804) and as Selected RecordsFrom Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applica-tion Files (M805).

Correspondence, armed vessels' bonds, logbooks, and otheroriginal records and copies of records pertaining to naval andprivateer activities during the Revolution are in Naval RecordsCollection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, RecordGroup 45.

Records of prize cases heard on appeal from colonial andState courts by committees of the Continental Congress and bythe Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture are in Records ofthe Supreme Court of the United States, Record Group 26?, andare reproduced as The Revolutionary War Prize Cases: Records ofthe Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture, 1776-8? (M162).

Journals, correspondence, and other records of the Continen-tal and Confederation Congresses are in Records of the Continen-tal and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Conven-tion, Record Group 360. These records have been reproduced onmicrofilm as Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-89 (M247)and Miscellaneous Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-89(M332). International and Indian treaties are in General Recordsof the United States Government, Record Group 11; the Indiantreaties have been reproduced as Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869 (M668).

Fiscal records of the Government of the Revolutionary Warand Confederation period are in Records of the Bureau of Accounts(Treasury), Record Group 39; Records of the Bureau of PublicDebt, Record Group 53; General Records of the Department of theTreasury, Record Group 56; and Records of the United StatesGeneral Accounting Office, Record Group 217. A few postal rec-ords for the same period are in Records of the Post Office De-partment, Record Group 28.

The records reproduced in this microfilm publication wereprepared for fiLning by Florence P. Williams. Howard H. Wehmannwrote these introductory remarks and provided the other editorialmaterial.

APPENDIX A

OUTLINE OF ARRANGEMENT OFTHE MANUSCRIPT FILE

This appendix shows the main divisions of the ManuscriptFile. In general., the records are arranged according to namesof States and to Continental Army staff departments and otherorganizations to whose personnel or activities they pertain.The number of the microfilm roll on which a particular recordhas been reproduced can be determined by consulting the tableof contents of this microfilm publication.

I. Records Pertaining to Troops of Particular States;Continental Troops at Large;Continental Army Staff Departments; andMiscellaneous Troops, Organizations, Persons, and Subjects(1-30074)

A. Records Pertaining to Troops of Particular States(1-17471)

1. Connecticut (1-1080)2. Delaware (1081-1166)3. Georgia (1167-126?)4. Maryland (1268-1593)5. Massachusetts (1594-2460)6. New Hampshire (2461-3889)7. New Jersey (3890-4096)8. New York (4097-14392)9. North Carolina (14393-14576)10. Pennsylvania (14577-15549)11. Rhode Island (15550-15700)12. South Carolina (15701-15976)13. Vermont (15977-16486)14. Virginia (16487-17471)

B. Records Pertaining to Continental Troops at Large(17472-20420)

C. Records Pertaining to Continental Army StaffDepartments (20421-28636)

1. Commissary General of Military Stores Department,Field Commissary of Military Stores Department,and Commissary of Military Stores Department(20421-21829)

2. Commissary General of Issues Department(21830-22237)

3. Paymaster General's Department (22238-22538)

4. Quartermaster General's Department (22539-28636)

D. Records Pertaining to Miscellaneous Troops,Organizations,, Persons, and Subjects (28637-30074)

II. Additional Records Pertaining to Troops of Particular States;Continental Troops at Large;Continental Army Staff Departments; andMiscellaneous Troops, Organizations, Persons, and Subjects(30075-31755)

A. Records Pertaining to Troops of Particular States andContinental Troops at Large (30075-30462)

B. Records Pertaining to Continental Army StaffDepartments (30463-30849)

1. Commissary General of Military Stores Department,Field Commissary of Military Stores Department,and Commissary of Military Stores Department(30463-30631)

2. Paymaster General's Department (30632-30745)

3. Quartermaster General's Department (30746-30849)

C. Records Pertaining to Miscellaneous Troops,Organizations, Persons, and Subjects (30850-31755)

III. Further Records Pertaining to Troops of Particular States;Continental Troops at Large;Continental Army Staff Departments; andMiscellaneous Troops, Organizations, Persons, and Subjects(31863-35501, 49984-49999, 50202-50208, and unnumberedrecords)

A. Records Pertaining to Troops of Particular States,Continental Troops at Large, andContinental Army Staff Departments (31863-33529)

B. Records Pertaining to Miscellaneous Troops,Organizations, Persons, and Subjects (33530-35501,49984-49999, 50202-50208, and unnumbered records;

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APPENDIX B

LIST OF PRINCIPAL KINDS OF RECORDSIN THE MANUSCRIPT FILE

This list shows the principal kinds of records in theManuscript File. The number of the microfilm roll on which aparticular record has been reproduced can be determined by con-sulting the table of contents of this microfilm publication.

MiscellaneousNumbered, Records Description

1-369 Includes acknowledgments of enlistment, payorders, military orders, and receipts forpay.

369 1/2-770 Includes accounts of officers and enlistedmen, oaths of allegiance and of office,pretensions to rank, resignations, andcertificates of nonindebtedness.

771-1080 Includes statements of service, commissions,and correspondence relating to accountsand to rank and resignations of officers.

1081-1166 Includes clothing accounts, receipts forapprehending deserters, and resolutionsof the Delaware Legislature.

1167-1267 Includes accounts of officers and enlistedmen, receipts for money and clothing,statements of service, pay orders, andcorrespondence concerning settlement ofaccounts.

1268-1593 Includes accounts of officers and enlistedmen, commissions, pay orders, andresignations.

1594-1907 Includes accounts of officers and enlistedmen and certificates of nonindebtedness.

1908-2234 Includes commissions, correspondence con-cerning settlement of accounts and rankof officers, receipts for money andsupplies, oaths of allegiance and ofoffice, and certificates of nonindebt-edness,

2235-2460 Includes resignations, recommendations con-cerning officers' discharges, supply

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MiscellaneousNumbered Records Description

returns, and lists of organizations andindividuals.

2461-3018 Includes accounts of officers and enlistedmen; receipts for supplies and money,pay orders, and commissions.

Includes receipts for money, resignations,powers of attorney, promissory notes,and enlistment papers.

Includes statements of service, petitionsto the New Hampshire Legislature byformer servicemen, receipts for supplies,letters, pay orders, accounts, payrolls,and muster rolls.

3890-4096 Includes accounts of officers and enlistedmen, commissions, certificates of non-indebtedness, correspondence concerningsettlement of accounts and pensions,resignations, recommendations concerningofficers' discharges, powers of attorney,receipts for money, enlistment oaths,and copies of acts of the New JerseyLegislature.

4097-4455 Mainly accounts of officers and enlisted menand certificates concerning such mattersas assignment of pay, receipt of money,issuance of letters of administration,performance of service, and nonindebt-edness of officers.

4456-4749 Mainly pay orders and correspondence con-cerning pay and settlement of accounts.

4750-5359 Mainly pay orders.

5360-5960 Mainly pay orders and some military orders.

5961-6542 Mainly pay orders.

6543-6860 Mainly powers of attorney and receipts forpay.

6861-7279 Mainly receipts for pay and supplies.

Mis c ellaneousNumbered Records Description

7280-7466

7467-7859

7860-12774

12775-13176

13177-13866

13867-14369

14370-14392

14393-14576

14577-14775

14776-15198

15199-15549

15550-15700

Includes appointments of officers, peti-tions to the New York Legislature forpay, enlistment papers, certificates ofnonindebtedness, letters of adminis-tration, and resignations.

Mainly pay accounts of officers and enlistedmen and statements of service.

Mainly pay orders.

Pay orders, powers of attorney, and assign-ments.

Receipts for pay.

Includes assignments of pay, correspondenceconcerning pay, payroll abstracts, im-pressment warrants, letters of adminis-tration, and lists of certificatesissued for pay.

Includes pay orders, supply and pay ac-counts, and lists of certificates issuedfor pay.

Includes accounts of officers and enlistedmen, certificates of nonindebtedness,final settlement certificates, commis-sions, resignations, correspondenceconcerning pay, and pay orders.

Mainly accounts of officers and enlistedmen and related records.

Mainly receipts for pay and for moneyreceived for recruiting expenses.

Mainly pay orders, enlistment oaths, bountyreceipts, and correspondence concerningpay and settlement of accounts.

Includes accounts of officers and enlistedmen, resolutions of the Rhode IslandGeneral Assembly and Council of War con-cerning military affairs, statements ofservice, certificates of nonindebtedness,resignations, recommendations concerningofficers' discharges, and pay receipts.

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MiscellaneousNumbered Records Description

15701-15976 Includes accounts of enlisted men,, finalsettlement certificates, receipts forfinal settlement certificates, pay orders,and correspondence concerning pay andsettlement of accounts.

15977-16486 Includes accounts of officers and enlistedmen, accounts of civilians, statementsof service, pay orders, receipts for payand other sums of money, and resolutionsof the Vermont General Assembly con-cerning pay of officers and men.

16487-16865 Mainly accounts of officers and enlistedmen.

16866-17132 Mainly statements of service, certificatesof money due enlisted men, correspond-ence concerning pay and settlement ofaccounts, and pay orders.

17133-17471 Includes receipts for pay and other sumsof money, pay orders, paroles, enlist-ment papers, correspondence concerningpay and settlement of accounts, andlists of officers and enlisted men.

17472-17940 Mainly pay and supply accounts of officersand enlisted men of various organiza-tions including regiments commanded byColonels Gist, Grayson, Spencer, Warner,Moylan, Baylor, and Hartley; Pulaski'sand Lee's Legions; the German and In-valid Regiments; and artillery regiments.

17941-18256 Mainly certificates of pay and final settle-ments received, certificates of non-indebtedness, statements of service, andcommissions of officers and enlisted menof various organizations including the1st and 2d Regiments of Light Dragoons,the German Regiment, and troops commandedby Capt. Bartholomew von Heer.

18257-18456 Mainly correspondence concerning settlementof accounts and resignations of officersof various organizations including theGerman Regiment, the 2d Canadian Regi-ment, and regiments commanded by

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MiscellaneousNumbered Records

13457-18746

18747-18976

18977-19397

19398-19760

19761-20155

20156-20420

Description

Colonels Hazen, Spencer, Hartley, Crane,and Lamb.

Enlistment papers, including oaths andbounty receipts, of enlisted men ofPulaski's Legion, "Congress's Own" Reg-iment , and Capt. Bartholomew von Heer'sCompany of Light Dragoons.

Mainly pay orders and orders for deliveryof supplies of officers and enlistedmen of various organizations includingthe 23d Continental Infantry Regiment,the 2d Regiment of Light Dragoons, andregiments commanded by Colonels Hazen,Grayson, and Lamb.

Mainly pay orders of officers and enlistedmen of various organizations includingLamb's Regiment and the 23d ContinentalInfantry Regiment.

Mainly powers of attorney and receipts forpay and other sums of money of officersand enlisted men of various organiza-tions including Hazen's and Lamb's Reg-iments, and receipts of persons paidfor furnishing supplies and services toPulaski's Legion and to Hazen's andMoylan's Regiment s.

Mainly receipts for pay, receipts forbounty money and other sums of money,and final settlement certificates ofofficers and enlisted men of variousorganizations including the 2d ArtilleryRegiment and Forman's and Hazen'sRegiments.

Resignations, personnel and supply returns,certificates of nonindebtedness, ac-counts and reports concerning settlementof accounts, discharges, appointments,military orders, letters of administra-tion, and other records of officers andenlisted men of various organizationsincluding the German Regiment, the 2dArtillery Regiment, and regiments com-manded by Colonels Hazen, Crane, Proctor,

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MiscellaneousNumbered Records

21155-21266

21394-21806

21830-21962

Spencer, Sherburne, Baylor, and Gist.

Mainly accounts, including accounts forexpenses, pay, and supplies receivedand delivered.

Includes receipts for guns and other sup-plies _, certificates of proof of shotand shells, letters addressed to Com-missary General of Military StoresSamuel Hodgdon, and estimates., returns,inventories, and invoices of militarystores and tools.

Mainly orders for delivery of supplies andreceipts for supplies.

Mainly returns of arms, accoutrements,ordnance, and military stores.

Mainly returns of arms, accoutrements, ord-nance, military stores, supplies needed,and work performed.

Mainly returns of arms, accoutrements, ord-nance, military stores, firewood, per-sonnel, and work performed.

Mainly returns of arms, accoutrements, ord-nance, military stores, personnel, workperformed, and provisions.

Includes records of delivery of supplies,letters addressed to Commissary of Mil-itary Stores and Asst. Q.M. SamuelHodgdon, contracts for shot and shells,pay orders, receipts for money, returnsof ordnance and military stores, com-missions, and appointments.

Books showing delivery and receipt of mil-itary stores, returns of ordnance andmilitary stores, and returns of per-sonnel and work performed.

Includes accounts and returns of provisionsand related stores, receipts for pro-visions, and certificates of money duefor retained rations.

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MiscellaneousNumbered Records Description

21963-22237 Mainly returns of provisions and relatedstores.

Letters addressed to Paymasters GeneralWilliam Palfrey and John Pierce, re-turns of money disbursed, and other rec-ords of pay and settlement of accounts.

Includes abstracts of wood and provisionsissued, accounts of disbursements, ac-counts of supplies purchased and sold,and supply contracts.

23071-26610 Mainly letters to Q.M. Gen. TrunothyPickering from subordinates and othermilitary and civil officers concerningactivities of the Quartermaster General'sDepartment.

26611-26916 Includes estimates, extracts of correspond-ence, invoices, lists of persons owedmoney by the United States for servicesand supplies, oaths of allegiance, andoaths of office.

26917-27306 Orders for delivery of supplies, pay orders,and receipts for supplies and money.

27307-28286 Returns of provisions, personnel, animals,wagons, boats, clothing, and othersupplies.

28287-28610 Includes accounts, appointments, receipts,sales reports, and correspondence.

28611-28636 Includes account and memorandum books.

28637-28834 Includes pay accounts of officers and otherpersons, copies of legislative acts con-cerning Army supplies, and statements ofservice.

28835-29090 Mainly letters to and copies and drafts ofletters and reports from PaymasterGeneral and Commissioner of Army AccountsJohn Pierce and Commissioner of ArmyAccounts Joseph Howell concerning payand settlement of accounts.

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MiscellaneousNumberecLRecords

29091-29371

29372-29564

29803-30074

30075-30462

30463-30631

Description

Includes letters to and drafts of lettersfrom Paymaster General and Commissionerof Army Accounts John Pierce and Commis-sioner of Army Accounts Joseph Howellconcerning pay and settlement of ac-counts ̂ correspondence between militaryofficers relating to military affairs,and letters to and from Samuel Hodgdonconcerning personal affairs.

Includes inventories and lists of suppliesand personnel, supply estimates and ac-counts, pay orders, military orders,receipts for pay and supplies, registersof certificates issued in settlement ofaccounts, and supply and personnelreturns.

Includes powers of attorney, drafts of let-ters from. Paymaster General and Commis-sioner of Army Accounts John Pierce con-cerning settlement of accounts, listsof members of the Cincinnati Society,and letters addressed to Samuel Hodgdonconcerning personal affairs.

Includes powers of attorney, assignments ofpay and land, letters of administration,statements of service, letters addressedto the Pension Commissioner, drafts ofletters from Paymaster General and Com-missioner of Army Accounts John Pierceconcerning settlement of accounts, andletters received and sent by SamuelHodgdon and by Timothy Pickering con-cerning personal affairs.

Records pertaining to Connecticut, Delaware,Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, NewHampshire, New Jersey, New York, NorthCarolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,Virginia, and Continental troops atlarge, including powers of attorney,assignments of pay and land, letters ofadministration, and correspondence con-cerning clams for pay.

Includes returns, correspondence, accounts,receipts, invoices, and orders for

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MiscellaneousNumbered Records

30632-30745

30746-30849

30850-31123

31124-31469

31470-31755

31863-31924

31925-32646

32647-32761

Description

delivery of supplies.

Mainly letters to and drafts of lettersfrom Paymaster General and Commissionerof Army Accounts John Pierce concerningsettlement of accounts.

Includes letters concerning official andpersonal affairs to and from Q.M.Gen. Timothy Pickering, supply returns,and accounts of Asst. Q.M. Samuel Hodgdon.

Includes lists of military stores, finalsettlement certificates, letters to anddrafts of letters from Paymaster Generaland Commissioner of Army Accounts JohnPierce and Commissioner of Army AccountsJoseph Howell concerning settlement ofaccounts, and copies of lists of andcorrespondence about South Carolinatroops.

Mainly commissions of Virginia officers andresignations, certificates of nonindebt-edness, and other records of Virginiaand Pennsylvania officers.

Includes inspection reports of MajorGeneral von Steuben, letters to and fromGeorge Washington, contracts for rations,council of war minutes, correspondencebetween military officers, court-martialproceedings, Continental Congress reso-lutions concerning Army staff depart-ments, and returns and lists of personsand supplies captured at Yorktown.

Military orders, receipts for money andsupplies, returns of personnel, andother records pertaining mainly toConnecticut, Massachusetts, New Hamp-shire, New Jersey, and Rhode Islandtroops.

Mainly pay orders, assignments of pay, andpay receipts of New York troops.

Military orders, returns of provisions,receipts for supplies and money, letters,accounts, and other records pertaining

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MiscellaneousNumbered Records

3A128-34390

34391-34543

Description

mainly to North Carolina, Pennsylvania,Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Con-tinental troops at large, the CommissaryGeneral of Issues Department, and theCommissary General of Purchases Depart-ment.

Records pertaining to the QuartermasterGeneral's Department, mainly receiptsfor forage and other supplies.

Statements of money owed to officers andenlisted men of the 3d New HampshireRegiment.

Pension certificates of widows of Massa-chusetts servicemen; and returns ofprovisions, letters, accounts, militaryorders, receipts for supplies and pay,and other records removed from pensionapplication files of Connecticutservicemen.

Mainly returns of provisions and of per-sonnel, letters, accounts, military andpay orders, receipts for supplies andpay, and other records removed frompension application files of Georgia,Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey,and New York servicemen.

Mainly returns of provisions, letters, ac-counts, military orders, orders fordelivery of supplies, receipts for sup-plies and money, and other records re-moved from pension application filesof North Carolina, South Carolina,Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Virginiaservicemen.

Mainly accounts, military orders, ordersfor delivery of supplies, receiptsfor supplies and money, and other rec-ords removed from pension applicationfiles of Massachusetts, New Hampshire,and New York servicemen; copies of rec-ords concerning Benedict Arnold andJohn Andre; and pension certificates ofMassachusetts servicemen.

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MiscellaneousNumberedJRecords

34544-34350

34851-35192

35193-35317

35318-35501

49984-49999;50202-50208;andUnnumberedRecords

Description

Mainly returns of provisions and other sup-plies , personnel returns, letters, ac-counts, military orders, orders for de-livery of supplies, receipts for suppliesand money, and other records removedfrom pension application files of Con-necticut, Virginia, Georgia, andMassachusetts servicemen.

Mainly returns of provisions, letters, ac-counts, military orders, orders fordelivery of supplies, receipts for sup-plies and money, and other records re-moved from pension application files ofMassachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey,New York, and Pennsylvania servicemen.

Mainly returns of provisions and of per-sonnel, letters, military orders,orders for delivery of supplies, re-ceipts for supplies and money, and otherrecords removed from pension applicationfiles of Delaware, Massachusetts, RhodeIsland, and South Carolina servicemen.

Includes lists of Virginia invalid pen-sioners; records removed from pensionapplication files of servicemen of Vir-ginia and other States, such as returnsof provisions and other supplies, let-ters, accounts, military orders, ordersfor delivery of supplies, and re-ceipts for supplies and money; returns,letters, and other records concerningquartermaster and military stores; anddrafts of letters from Commissioner ofArmy Accounts John Pierce concerningsettlement of accounts.

Mainly copies of commissions, correspond-ence, and other records, including somepre-Revolutionary War records; and re-turns, accounts, military and pay orders,receipts, and other records removed frompension application files of Connecticut,Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island,and Virginia servicemen.

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APPENDIX C

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SOURCES OF RECORDSIN THE MANUSCRIPT FILE

Many records in the Manuscript File bear stamps and anno-tations or are accompanied by memorandums that indicate the dateand the source from which the War Department received or copiedthe records. These sources are listed below in chronologicalorder. Although not every record was examined, this list isbelieved to show the sources of most if not all of the recordsthat are stamped or otherwise externally identified. No attempthas been made to determine and include in this list the sourcesof records that are not stamped or labeled to show their previouscustodians.

The record numbers shown generally refer to only the firstand the last numbered record in the Manuscript File identifiedas coming from the particular source cited. These numbers areusually not inclusive because the War Department intermixedrecords from several sources in the course of arrangement beforenumbering them. In a few cases where the numbers given are in-clusive, this fact is stated. The record numbers have been givenin this appendix merely to indicate how widely records from anyone source were distributed in the Manuscript File. Errors andpeculiarities in spelling and punctuation that occur in thestamps and other source indicators have been corrected. Theabbreviations "R.P.O." or "R.&P. Office," "M.S.O.," and "A.G.O."or "A.G." refer to the War Department's Record and Pension Office,Military Secretary's Office, and Adjutant General's Office,, re-spectively; the numbers that follow the abbreviations are corre-spondence file numbers of those offices.

November 24, 1894

Records are stamped "Received from State Dept., Nov. 24, 1894*R.P.O. 401310," and include miscellaneous numbered records457 and 35500. They consist of records that the War De-partment transferred to the State Department in 1888 andthat the latter agency returned in 1894 with the additionof records removed from the Washington Papers in theState Department.

January 26, 1895

Records are stamped "Received from Auditor for the InteriorDepartment, January 26, 1895, R.P.O. 406095," and includemiscellaneous numbered records 400 and 20200. The Auditorfor the Interior Department was an official of the Treas-ury Department.

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May 7, 1895

Records are stamped "Received from Auditor for the InteriorDepartment, May 7, 1895, R.P.O. 415343," and includemiscellaneous numbered records 4300 and 30861.

October 1895

Records are stamped as follows: "This copy "was made in theR. & P. Office, War Dept., in October, 1895, from atranscript, made by order of the General Assembly ofVermont in 1843, of records originally filed as vouchersin the office of the Treasurer of that State. After thiscopy was made the transcript was returned to the AdjutantGeneral of Vermont, by whom it had been loaned to theR. & P. Office. R. & P. 431636." The records stampedare numbered 16474-16478 inclusive.

October 12, 1895

Records are stamped as follows: "This copy, printed by theState of New Hampshire, was not verified in the Recordand Pension Office by comparison with the original record,that record not having been received Oct. 12, 1895, amongthe others loaned to the office by the State. R. & P.431372." The records include miscellaneous numbered rec-ords 3567 and 31749 and are from Isaac ¥. Hammond's (ed.)Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War (Concord,N.H., 1885-89), published as volumes 14-17 of the NewHampshire Provincial and State Papers.

November 1895

Records are stamped as follows: "This copy was made in theR. & P. Office, War Dept., in November, 1895, from theoriginal record, which was then returned to the AdjutantGeneral of New Hampshire, by whom it had been loaned tothe R. & P. Office. R. & P. 431372." The records in-clude miscellaneous numbered records 2621 and 3846 andare manuscript copies.

November 1895

Records are stamped as follows: "This copy was verified, andthe corrections indicated hereon were made, in the R. & P.Office, War Department, in November, 1895, by comparingthe copy with the original record,, which was then returnedto the Adjutant General of New Hampshire,, by whom it hadbeen loaned to the R. & P. Office. R. & P. 431372." Therecords include miscellaneous numbered records 3436 and3849 and are printed copies of the original records. withmanuscript annotations.

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November 1895

Records are stamped as follows: "This copy was made in theR. & P. Office, War Dept., in November, 1895, from theoriginal record, which was then returned to the AdjutantGeneral of Vermont, by whom it had been loaned to theR. & P. Office. R. & P. 431636." The records includemiscellaneous numbered records 15977 and 16473.

October 1896

Records are stamped as follows: "This copy was made in theR. & P. Office, War Department, in October, 1896, fromthe original record, which was then returned to theComptroller of New York, by whom it had been loaned tothe R. & P. Office. R. & P. 454712." The records in-clude miscellaneous numbered records 4620 and 30211(7467-14392, inclusive). The original records from whichthese copies were made are described in the introductionof James A. Robert's New York in the Revolution as Colonyand State (Albany, 1898), published by the New York(State) Comptroller's Office.

September 1897

Records are stamped as follows: "This copy was made in theR. & P. Office, War Dept., in September, 1897, from theoriginal record, which was then returned to the Secretaryof State of Delaware, by whom it had been loaned to theR. & P. Office. R. & P. 488296." The records includemiscellaneous numbered records 1089 and 30120.

March 1899

Records contain the manuscript annotation, "Original inpossession of A. S. Salley, Orangeburg, S.C., 503202,"and consist of miscellaneous numbered records 31078-311043inclusive. The original records were copied in the Recordand Pension Office in March 1899 and returned toA. S. Salley.

December 11, 1903

Miscellaneous numbered record 31752 is stamped "Record &Pension Office, War Department, Dec. 11, 1903, 758996."The record was received from the Interior Departmentwhere it was removed from a pension application file inthe Pension Office.

May 3, 1904

Records are stamped "Record & Pension Office, War Department,

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May 33 1904.9 788291," and consist of miscellaneous numberedrecords 31863-31894 j inclusive. The records were receivedfrom the Interior Department where they were removed frompension application files in the Pension Office.

November 11, 1905

Records are stamped "Received from the Interior Department,November 11, 1905, M.S.O. 1070292," and include miscel-laneous numbered records 31898 an^ 33529. Many of themwere removed from pension application files in the PensionOffice.

April 13, 1909

Records are stamped "Received April 13, 1909j fromHenry G. Pickering, Boston, Mass., through the Quarter-master General of the Army, A.G.O. 1512033." They con-sist of miscellaneous numbered records 33530 and 33531*

January 16, 1913

Records are stamped "Received from Pension Office, January16, 1913, A.G. 1998509," and include miscellaneous num-bered records 33583, 49986, and unnumbered records filedafter miscellaneous numbered record 50208. Most of theserecords were removed from pension application files.

October 21, 1914

Miscellaneous numbered record 33532 is stamped "AdjutantGeneral's Office, War Department, Oct. 21, 1914, 2221509."This document was received from the Public ArchivesCommission of Dela-ware, where it was copied from theoriginal record.

March 10, 1916

Miscellaneous numbered record 33533 is accompanied by anenvelope stamped "Adjutant General's Office, War Department,Mar. 10, 1916, 2377718." The record is an 1803 FrenchArmy commission signed by Napoleon Bonaparte. The officerto whom the commission was issued had served in the Amer-ican Revolution, as stated on the face of the document.A French citizen gave the commission to the U.S. Ambas-sador in Paris and the State Department transferred it tothe War Department.

July 16, 1923

Miscellaneous numbered record 34430 is contained in an enve-lope that is annotated as follows: "Photostat copies of

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records on file in the Old Files, A.G.O., the CongressionalLibrary, and the New York State Library relative toBenedict Arnold and Major Andre'. Received in the Divisionfrom Colonel William A. Graham. Filed July 16, 1923."

April 3, 1924

Miscellaneous numbered records 49992-49994̂ inclusive, werereceived by the War Department from a private citizenabout April 3j 1924j according to a memorandum filed withthe records.

September 9, 1924

Miscellaneous numbered record 35320 is accompanied by amemorandum stating that the lists of Virginia invalidpensioners that constitute the record were received fromthe Navy Department on September 9j 1924.

January 30, 1926

A memorandum dated January 30, 1926, filed with miscellaneousnumbered records 33534-33582 indicates that the first 16of these records (33 534-33 549j inclusive) we're receivedfrom the Office of Naval Records and Library of theNavy Department.

February 8, 1926

A memorandum dated February 8, 1926, filed with miscellaneousnumbered records 34431-34543̂ inclusive, indicates thatthese records were received from the Office of NavalRecords and Library of the Navy Department.

1929-1937

Several copies of original records numbered between 49995,and50208 are accompanied by memorandums or correspondenceshowing that the War Department received the copied doc-uments from private citizens and from the Navy Departmentat various times during the period 1929-37.

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Roll Roll

123456789

10n121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344

454647

1-369369 1/2-770

771-10801081-12671268-15931594-19071908-22342235-24602461-30183019-33973398-38893890-40964097-44554456-47494750-50885089-53595360-56605661-59605961-62616262-65426543-68606861-72797280-74667467-78597860-80928093-83938394-87128713-89508951-94249425-96699670-99579958-10296

10297-1060510606-1104711048-1137511376-1171211713-1208612087-1243912440-1277412775-1317613177-1356913570-1386613867-1436914370-14392(with gaps)14393-1457614577-1477514776-15198

484950515253545556575859606162636465666768697071727374757677787980818283848586878889909192939495

15199-1554915550-1570015701-1597615977-1648616487-1686516866-1713217133-1747117472-1769417695-1794017941-1825618257-1845618457-1874618747-1897618977-1939719398-1976019761-2015520156-2042020421-2054220543-2071820719-2094120942-2105921060-2115421155-2126621267-2139321394-2180621807-2182921830-2196221963-2206322064-2223722238-2253822539-2274022741-2307023071-2335923360-2366123662-2394923950-2424324244-2454124542-2483724838-2513725138-2543525436-2571525716-2603226033-2632926330-2661026611-2691626917-2730627307-2760227603-27931

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Roll

96979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112

27932-28287-28611-28637-28835-29091-29372-29565-29803-30075-30463-30632-30746-30850-31124-314-70-31863-

Roll

113114115116117118119120121122

UnnumberedRecords

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