Early American Orderly Books, 1748-1817 Reel Listing
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Early American Orderly Books, 1748-1817 Reel Listing Maj. Gen. James Wolfe, Canada. Various Units [Army]: French and Indian Wars. February 12, 1748 - December 15, 1755; May 4 - June 21 - August 19, 1759; May 31 - July 16, 1760; September 12, 1759 October 11 - November 13, 1764 Orders of the 20th Regiment of Foot, commanded by March of the combined British Regular and Col. George Viscount Sackville, and after Oct. 31, Provincial Army, in the campaign at Fort Niagara, 1749 by George Viscount Borg. Wolfe was a Major under the command of Gen. John Prideaux and Sir and then a Lt. Col. in the regiment. Locations: William Johnson. Locations: Oneida Lake, Three Sterling, Canterbury. Maj. Gen. Wolfe was in Rivers, Great Falls, Oswego, Olenoous, command of the troops at Quebec. Orders continue Nidenindequeat, Prideaux Bay, Niagara. Kept by up to the day before the battle at Quebec. Locations: John Mackenzie. March of Provincial troops with the Halifax, Nova Scotia. 112 pages. 44th Royal Highlanders, under the command of Col. Reel: 1, No. 1 Woodhull, to the New York frontier. Locations: Albany, Schnectady, Fort Ontario, Wallighea, Fry, Capt. Horatio Gates, Brigade Major, New York. Conojohary, Fort Stanwix, and Fort Brenington. Kept August 18 - October 12, 1758 by John Petzgold. Return march of Col. Bradstreet's Includes a Return of troops fit for duty at Oneida forces from Detroit at the close of the Pontiac War. Station and a Return of artificers daily employed Locations: Sandusky, Grand Bevier, Fort Schlosser, from the troops, Aug. 26, 1758. Location: Oneida Niagara Falls. 130 pages. Station, New York. 112 pages. Reel: 1, No. 7 Reel: 1, No. 2 Maj. Horatio Gates, Pennsylvania. Company of a New York Regiment of Provincials, July 16 - September 2, 1759 New York. Covers brigade's march from Carlisle to Pittsburgh, April 24 - August 25, 1759 Pa. Writer unknown. 76 pages. Concerns the Niagara Campaign led by Gen. John Reel: 1, No. 7.1 Prideaux, and after his death, by Sir William Johnson. Locations: April - Albany, May-June - Maj. John Durkee, New York. Oswego, July - Niagara, August - Oswego. Probably August 10 - October 10, 1759 kept by Goosen Van Shaick. 106 pages. Concerns work crews and construction at Crown Reel: 1, No. 3 Point. Locations: Headquarters, Crown Point, N.Y. Probably kept by Joseph Welsh, one of Durkee's Fort Cumberland, Arcadia. soldiers. 111 pages. May 9 - August 12, 1759 Reel: 1, No. 8 Joseph Frye was the commanding officer of the garrison. Also includes account books of John French and Indian Wars. Robinson, 1763-1775. Locations: Fort Cumberland, June 4, 1760 - February 6, 1764 Arcadia. Kept by Elhanah Boyden. 134 pages. Contains a list of Capt. Barron's company, orders at Reel: 1, No. 4 Crown Point, July 27, 1761, orders of march, and methods of defense. Mentions Gen. Amherst. Kept Commissary Wilson. by Maj. Rogers? 17 pages. (Original and typed copy). May 22 - November 3, 1759 Reel: 1, No. 9 Discusses the disposition of provincial and regular British troops. Locations: Albany, Fort Edward, Lake Gen. Thomas Gage's Headquarters, George, Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Lake Massachusetts. (American). Champlain, Ligoneer Bay. Writer unknown. 180 July 10 - December 9, 1774 pages. General orders of Thomas Gage, Commander in Reel: 1, No. 5 Chief of the American forces. Location: Headquarters, Boston. Writer unknown. 128 pages. Oliver Spaulding, Third Connecticut Regiment, Reel: 1, No. 10 New York. May 27, 1759 - June 14, 1759 Gen. Thomas Gage's Headquarters, Locations: Albany, Half-Moon, Still Waters, Massachusetts. (American). Salotage, Fort Miller, Fort Edward. Writer unknown. July 10 - December 9, 1774 18 pages. General orders of Thomas Gage, Commander in Reel: 1, No. 5.1 Chief of the American forces. Location: Headquarters, Boston. Writer unknown. 90 pages. Oliver Spaulding, Third Connecticut Regiment, (Typed Copy). New York. Reel: 1, No. 11 May 27, 1759 - June 14, 1759 Locations: Albany, Half-Moon, Still Waters, Salotage, Fort Miller, Fort Edward. Writer unknown. 14 pages. (Typed Copy). Reel: 1, No. 6 1 Early American Orderly Books, 1748-1817 Reel Listing Gen. Thomas Gage's Headquarters, Col. William Prescott's Massachusetts Regiment, Massachusetts. (American). Massachusetts. (American). July 10 - December 9, 1774 June 15 - September 2, 1775 General orders of Thomas Gage, Commander in Includes general and regimental orders. Covers the Chief of the American forces. Location: Battle of Bunker Hill and the active phase of the Headquarters, Boston. Writer unknown. 90 pages. Siege of Boston. Locations: Cambridge, Mass. Writer (Typed Carbon Copy). unknown. 64 folio pages. Reel: 1, No. 12 Reel: 2, No. 18 List of Thomas Knowlton's Company of Ashford, Col. Israel Putnam's Third Connecticut Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. (American). of 1775, Massachusetts. (American). April, 1775 June 22 - October 7, 1775 The company marched for Cambridge upon hearing Includes general and regimental orders and pertains of the battle at Lexington, and enlisted there for to the Siege of Boston. Locations: Cambridge, Mass. seven months. Also includes a list of those members Kept by Asabel Clark, 7th company. 134 pages. of the company who fought in the Battle of Bunker Reel: 2, No. 19 Hill, June 17, 1775. Writer unknown. 20 pages. Reel: 1, No. 13 Index of General Orders, Continental Army. (American). Gen. George Washington's Headquarters, July 3, 1775 - April 10, 1780; April 11, 1780 - Massachusetts. (American). August 14, 1783 May 13 - October 22, 1775 102 pages.; 64 pages. Pertains to Bunker Hill and the period of the active Reel: 2, No. 20 siege of Boston. "First orderly book of the American Revolution." Locations: Cambridge [No. 4] Bunker British Army Orders, Maj. Gen. Howe, Hill, Mass. Writer unknown. 180 pages. Massachusetts. (British). Reel: 1, No. 14 July 12 - September 21, 1775 Maj. Gen. Howe was commander of the British Gen. George Washington's Headquarters, forces in America. Included in the volume is a return Massachusetts. (American). of the numbers killed, wounded, and missing on May 13 - October 22, 1775 April 19, 1775 (Battle of Lexington) and June 17, Pertains to Bunker Hill and the period of the active 1775 (Bunker Hill). Locations: Headquarters, Boston. siege of Boston. "First orderly book of the American Writer unknown. 116 pages. Revolution." Locations: Cambridge [No. 4] Bunker Reel: 2, No. 21 Hill, Mass. Writer unknown. 180 pages. (Typed Copy). Col. James Clinton's Third New York Regiment Reel: 2, No. 15 of 1775, New York. (American). August 27, 1775 - February 14, 1776 Sixth Connecticut Regiment of 1775, Connecticut Commences at Albany and ends near Quebec. and Massachusetts. (American). Probably kept in part by Ensign Thomas Lenington. June 5 - September 18, 1775 160 pages. Regimental orders, and in the latter part of the book, Reel: 2, No. 22 the orders of Gen. Artemas Ward, Headquarters, Cambridge. Locations: New London, Ct. and after Gen. George Washington, Headquarters, June 15, Roxbury. Writer unknown. 186 pages. Massachusetts. (American). Reel: 2, No. 16 August 31 - September 24, 1775 Contains the general orders of Washington. At end: A Col. David Waterbury's Fifth Connecticut weekly return of the Second Regiment in the Service Regiment of 1775, New York. (American). of the United Colonies of N. America commanded by June 13 - September 16, 1775; July 25 - December 6, Col. Wm. Thompson. Kept by Edward Burd? 104 1775 pages. This regiment marched to Canada under the Reel: 2, No. 22.1 command of Gen. Montgomery. Contains regimental and general orders, as well as a muster roll of Captain Col. Jedediah Huntington's Eight Connecticut Lalmon Read's company (10th company of the Regiment of 1775, Massachusetts. (American). regiment). Locations: Greenwich Camps, New York, September 29 - September 30, 1775 Harlaem, Half Moon, Camp Island. Kept by Aaron Includes general and regimental orders. Locations: Barlow. Diary of Aaron Barlow, including accounts Cambridge, Mass. Writer unknown. 4 pages. of his journey from Redding, Ct. to Albany to join his Reel: 2, No. 23 company, the trip to Lake Champlain, events during the Siege of St. Francis, travel to Montreal, and the return to Albany. 120 pages. Reel: 2, No. 17 2 Early American Orderly Books, 1748-1817 Reel Listing British Headquarters, Massachusetts. (British). Col. Alexander Mc Dougall's First New York October 13 - December 25, 1775 Regiment of 1776, New York. (American). Contains general orders from British headquarters March 25 - June 15, 1776 and orders for the three divisions at the camp on Contains general, brigade, and regimental orders. The Charlestown Heights. Locations: Boston. Writer New York troops were under the command of Lord unknown. 164 pages. Stirling; after March 31, General Heath, and finally, Reel: 2, No. 24 Gen. Washington. Covers the period of the arrival of American troops in the city for the expected British Unidentified Massachusetts Brigade, assault. Locations: New York City. Kept by Capt. Massachusetts. (American). Wiley? 186 pages. November 30 - December 12, 1775 Reel: 3, No. 29 Contains headquarters, brigade, and regimental orders. Brigade contained the Massachusetts Unidentified New York Regiment, New York. battalions commanded by Cols. John Paterson, (American). William Prescott, James Scammon, John Grafton, June 28 - July 28, 1776 and Edward Phinney. Locations: Near Leachmere This regiment was a part of Gen. John Morin Scott's Point, Mass. Writer unknown. 18 pages. brigade and Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam's division. Reel: 2, No. 24.1 Includes Washington's general orders and Scott's brigade orders. Locations: New York City. Kept by Capt. Thomas Pierce's Company, Massachusetts James McKenney and Conway Connell? 182 pages. and New York. (American). Reel: 3, No. 30 January 1 - May 17, 1776 Pierce's company was part of Col. Henry Knox's Northern Army, New York. (American). artillery regiment. Contains general orders of George July 10, 1776 - June 3, 1777 Washington from Cambridge and New York, orders Includes the general orders of Gen.