1st delaware regiment revolutionary war

Sellers, John R., et al., comps. Taunton: Historic Reproductions, 1975. Franchise Tax ], ca. Ohio, 1945). Like most regiments of the Continental Army, the unit went through several incarnations and name changes. New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1929. Henry Fisher and William Peery to John Hancock, 1777, 19. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1976. In August and September of 1776 a convention specifically arranged for that purpose drafted a constitution. (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. A variety of articles dealing with the American Revolution may be found in publications such as Delaware History as well. Letter from David Hall, Council of Safety (photocopy), 1776, 8. R-77: Settlement of Delaware Revolutionary War Claims with the United States, 1776-1787; Account Book of the State Auditor of Delaware, 1784-1800. 6. Position of the Army Near Aikens Tavern. 1777 (8). 3. Claims settlements include disbursements for prisoners of war, Commissary Department, transportation, Hospital Department, Quartermasters Department, and depreciation of pay. 17. Pabst, Anna C. Smith, comp. #15: Revolutionary activities and Coochs Bridge, by M. Dunn, 3. (Cambridge, Mass. 2 (1950). Newark: Curtis Paper Company, 1964. . 2, 1950. Lists of Delinquents from the Various Militia Companies. Federalist Delaware, 1775-1815. American Revolutionary War. : Picton Press, 1998. Westminster, Md. The folder also include chronologies of the Revolution written after the war. Louder Calloway and John Stevens(on), 1829, 62. Battles. 1777, 11. In June 1776, an attack on Whigs in Kent County was narrowly averted. Folder 1 contains company reports, and journal entries from 1775, 1779, and after the Revolution. ca. Elkton: N.p., 1940. 2752 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2752 To award a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the First Rhode Island Regiment, in recognition of their dedicated service during the Revolutionary War. Edward Kearney, letter to the governor of Delaware, n.d. 2. Before the Revolution: Yankee Doodle Comes to Delaware. R-57: Index of the Journal and Order Book of Captain Robert Kirkwood, 1777-1791. Commissioners Report on Haslets and Pattersons battalions, 1776, 10. Bevans, Wilson Lloyd, and E. Melvin Williams, eds. [Revolutionary War sites in New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Counties]. #354: Daughters of the American Revolution lineage book, 16. Acts of Congress concerning hospitals are also included (typescript copies). The Delaware Loyalists. 1915 painting by Stanley Arthurs. 17. Valley Forge Historical Society. New Castle County meeting (transcripts from American Archives), 1774, 2. Motor Travel, May 1925, June 1925. Loyalists were active along the Delaware, and the need for a schooner for protection against Loyalist forays is raised in Dickinsons correspondence. Delaware, resolutions of the Council, 1776, 3. Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. 8. 2, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Press, 1928. MacNeill, Henry T., and Aime Junkers MacNeill. Haslet and his men managed to capture thirty-six men and a collection of weapons and blankets. On 8 September, the British marched through Newark enroute to Philadelphia. Topics of correspondence from 1776 includes the appointment of generals, the purchase of arms, Dickinsons reservations regarding the Declaration of Independence, and Dickinsons service with his troops in New Jersey. 5. This was true in Delaware as well. 1. The compensation of soldiers was a concern due to the collapse of the currency system. These records include muster rolls of Delaware troops throughout the American Revolution, letters from the Continental Congress to Delaware, and letters to and from Caesar Rodney, John McKinly, and Thomas McKean. After 1776, it appears that the coats were slightly longer with still red facings and turnbacks. Adjusted and allowed claims, 1792-1796, 12. The Assembly did not recognize Continental or state currency as legal tender after 1781. Relations Between the Continental Congress and the Delaware Legislature 1776-1789. Typescript, 1941. Black & white print. New York: New Viewpoints, 1973. (Delaware Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 1943). Burnham, Smith. Revolutionary War Records: National and Local From Original Manuscripts. Typescript, 1966. 1st Delaware Regiment (1776-1783) 1st Georgia Regiment (1775-1783) 2nd Georgia . Wagon Brigade under Direction of Colonel Francis Wade, Regiment returns, pay rolls, account of discharges. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988. Ground Chosen and Entrenched by Washington to Fight Howes Army. (Price & Price, 1777). Revolutionary War Records, Accounts, 1776-1807 (23 folders). The Battle of Camden (August 16, 1780), also known as the Battle of Camden Court House, was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.On August 16, 1780, British forces under Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the numerically superior U.S. forces led by Major General Horatio Gates about four miles north of Camden, South Carolina . 1777-1780 Georgia Line. 1. Bushman, Claudia L., Herbert B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey, eds. R-48: Papers from the New York Public Library, 1774-1804. 28. The First Seminole War. Orderly Book of the Maryland Loyalists Regiment . The colony refused to use stamps, held protest meetings, sent delegates to the Stamp Act Congress, and boycotted British goods. Map of the Original Thirteen Colonies (S. Augustus Mitchell, 1876). Delaware Troops Leaving the Green. 16. . A Committee of Correspondence was formed in October 1773 to communicate with other colonies. #149: Revolutionary Warmilitary records, bounty warrants, HMS Roebuck, Delaware soldiers burial sites, Coochs Bridge, 10. Facsimile reproduction. . John Booker, Virginia troops (Buckner Regiment), 1776, 10. (N.p., n.d.). 15. Record types contained in this collection include: Muster rolls Payrolls Strength returns Misc., personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units Revolutionary War Pension . Landing at the Head of Elk in Maryland, British forces marched through Delaware. History of Delaware, Past and Present. 11. Another volume, also not published, Pension Rolls and Correspondence, contains information on pension applicants. Delawares veterans were ordered home toward the end of 1782. 14. 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. They arrived in Delaware on 17 January 1783. The American Heritage Book of the American Revolution. Peckham, Howard H. Guide to Manuscript Collections in the William Clements Library. . Original. The Lower Counties, as Delaware was then known, were technically part of Pennsylvania, though after 1704 the two colonies had separate legislatures. . Newman, Harry Wright. Butterfield, L. H. Letters of Benjamin Rush. The 1st Delaware Regiment in the Revolutionary War. Orders on the State Treasurer to Pay Militia Officers, Arrangements . Biographical Sketches of the Generals of the Continental Army of the Revolution. Ketchum, Richard M., ed. Caesar Rodneys Ride: Wilmington, Chester, Marcus Hook and Penns Landing, (reel 2) helical scan videotape, ca. A Compleat Plan of Part of the Province of Pennsylvania East and West Jersey 1778. Sabine, Lorenzo. Muster roll, Delaware Regiment, Second Battalion, 1780, 30. From the autumn of 1777 through June 1778, the British purchased supplies in New Castle and Port Penn. 7. Withholding Tax Hardy, Minerva Spencer. Its members included Thomas McKean, Caesar Rodney, George Read, John McKinly and Thomas Robinson. Also included are various types of correspondence, records of British fleet and troop movements in Delaware and the Delaware Bay, and pay rolls for officers and men in the Continental Army. Military Uniforms in America: The Era of the American Revolution, 1755-1795. Delaware Troops in the Revolution. Position of the Division under Lt. Gen. Knyphausen at Cecil Church, Sep. 1777. 1777 (6). http://FamilySearch.org : 28 April 2023. Descriptive information for maps may be found in the Maps card catalog. Londahl-Smidt, Donald M. Notes Concerning the Uniform of the Delaware Battalion. Military Collector & Historian XIX, no. Documents; Records; Time-Line; Regiments. Committees of Correspondence throughout the colonies strengthened opposition to British policies embodied in measures like the Intolerable Acts, passed in the aftermath of the Tea Party.(2). New York: George Moore, 1890. After the Boston Tea Party and the closing of the port of Boston, the Committee raised subscriptions for the relief of Boston. Revolutionary War Bibliography. (N.p., n.d.). As the imperial crisis continued, the Whig opposition to Parliaments policies pushed forward in the colonies. (Original painting in Delaware Public Archives.). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1974. 1976, RG 8005.046 Department of Public InstructionMotion Pictures Collection. The only possible escape route was to cross under heavy fire, a marshy area about eighty yards wide called Gowanus Creek. RG 1922.000 Delaware American Revolution Bicentennial Commission (DARBC)Administrative Records, 1969-1977. The Middle Colonies and the Coming of the American Revolution. : Presidio Press, 1974. 2. San Rafael, Ca. Delaware Infantry Regiment, 1st. Neuenschwander, John A. 2. Color and black & white prints. Delaware Archives, 3 vols. Lafayette in Delaware. List of contributions for relief of Boston (photostats), 1774, 4. Elting, John Robert. Significant Campaigns and Battles The rolls include an index to names of pensioners, including death dates when known, and an index to correspondence between pensioners and government officials. Regiment returns, expenditure accounts, supply requisition, receipt for supplies, officer rosters, receipt for pay, account voucher, list of pay rates, salary listing, Assembly resolution appointing commissioners of inspection, officer evaluations, commissioners reports, muster rolls, subsistence rolls. Gen. William Smallwood. 2. Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives. The Picket Post, miscellaneous issues, 1949-1973. Other accounts include the depreciation of pay to the Delaware Regiment. More commonly known as a day book, the waste book contains initial recordings of daily receipts and disbursements. Marshall, John. Captain Allen McLanes company of dragoons recruited in Delaware, and gained a id for themselves, whether on horseback or as infantry. Munroe, John A. The Nehemiah Tilton papers folder contains photostats of two letters from 1782 dealing with current events and Delaware politics. RG 1111.006 Council of Safety Minutes 1775-1776. Harry Schenawolf, in his Revolutionary War Journal article "Battle of Mamaroneck . A catalogue of the muster rolls, pay rolls, and miscellaneous papers pertaining to the Delaware troops in the Revolutionary War: Collected in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1908, Revolutionary War Records, Miscellaneous, 1765-1787 (3 folders), 1. 13. Newark : University of Delaware Press, 1986. Smith, Charles Page. . These include letters concerning Committees of Correspondence, news of the war, the establishment of a hospital in Virginia, the conduct of army physicians, an account of the Delaware Regiments attack on loyalists at Mamaroneck, New York, the use of smallpox vaccine, Tiltons appointment as a hospital physician and surgeon, reports on sick and wounded, and Tiltons resignation from the Delaware Regiment in 1776. Verification of pensions for Jacob Caulk, Edward Whaley, Joseph Williams, Benjamin Lane, Charles Hamilton and John Alexander, 1818, 29. Original. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment was a Continental Army regiment from Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War (1781-1783). Delaware Tercentenary Commission map of Delaware, with illustrations, 1938. 18. . At Long Island, the 1st Delaware Regiment (pictured here) fought alongside the Marylanders on the American right flank. Life of the Honorable Thomas McKean L. L. D. Lancaster, Pa.: Inquirer Printing Company, 1890. Weather & Travel, Contact Us 10. This record series contains various types of Revolutionary War records, including companies muster rolls, accounts, lists of pensioners, depreciation records, correspondence, pay rolls, returns, indictments for treason, and petitions. Reports of the Auditor of Accounts, Joint Committees of the Assembly . 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. 2. The 1st Maryland Regiment (Smallwood's Regiment) originated with the authorization of a Maryland Battalion of the Maryland State Troops on 14 January 1776. Early Sea Fights of the American Revolution. S.A.R. In Buff and Blue: Being Certain Portions From the Diary of Richard Hilton. The Americans regrouped and in a series of battles turned the tide against the British. 9. RG 1922.001 DARBCPhotograph Collection, 1975-1979. Letter from John McKinly (transcript), 1776, 9. Also includes additional records of payments for recruiting bounties for the Flying Camp, and records of bounties paid for raising Continental reinforcements at the request of Congress. A Chart of the Delaware Bay and River. (Philadelphia, London, 1776). Proceedings and correspondence, New Castle County Committee of Correspondence (transcripts, photostats, originals), 1774-1775, Revolutionary War Records, Committee of Inspection and Observation, 1775-1777 (4 folders), 1. Lafayette Day Committee. (Multiple sections of a map of the mid-Atlantic states)]. 1 (1967): 9-11. On 25 October 1776, the roughly 280 men still fit for duty in the regiment took part in the battle of White Plains. 6. James Wilson, Founding Father: 1742-1798. #405: Aitkens Register account of Delaware, 1774, 20. St. Michaels, Md. 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 . Boxes 1-3 of the Dickinson Papers contain John Dickinsons correspondence relating to the American Revolution. The first Delaware regiment was no more. A rough chronological order is followed. 1. Commissary and personal accounts are intermingled. Letter from John McKinly for gunpowder (photostat), 1775, 4. 9. Commanders of the Delaware Regiment 1776-1779, 11. These records have been published in two volumes edited by Claudia Bushman, Harold B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey (see bibliography section). McLanes company annexed to Delaware Regiment ( document photograph), 1779, 23. An index to the Kirkwood journal and order book may be found in RG 9270.000, Reference Reel R-57. Pitz, Henry C. The Brandywine Tradition. Clark, Raymond B., Jr. Maryland Revolutionary Records: How to Find and Interpret Them. Diary of Independence Hall. 29 Camp a Wilmington. 1781 (1). Ryden, George H. Delaware Troops in the Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1897. Miscellaneous items related to the Delaware Regiment and Delaware militia units. (8), Few in the Delaware regiment took part in Washingtons attack on Trenton, or in the battle of Princeton. Color print. An act of Congress established the First Delaware Regiment on December 9, 1775, and the ranks quickly grew to over 725 men. The personal accounts date mostly from the 1800s. Rules and articles, Delaware Troops, n.d. 2. More Lee correspondence from 1780 is on file, as is correspondence with Caesar and Thomas Rodney. Volume II: Military and Naval (1777-ca. Certificate of military service, 1787, 39. The George Washington Atlas. Uniforms of the American, British, French and German Armies in the War of the American Revolution, 1775-1783. (Dover: Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1932). Personal Income Tax 1777-1780 Delaware Line. 16. National Archives and Records Administration Category: Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783 Delaware pensioners, . 21. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. (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. Heitman, Francis Barnard. 12. Lefferts, Charles Mackubin. Edward Roche to James Booth, from Valley Forge (photocopy), 1778, 25. Sir Henry Clintons Map of Valley Forge and Vicinity. . New York: Hawthorn Books, 1975. Photostat. General John Sullivans Indian Expedition, 1779. (Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1929). Philadelphia: L. J. Richards & Company, 1888. Depreciation of pay, certificates for Delaware members of Lees Legion, certificates for pay and subsistence, affidavits and petitions, information on Captain Peter Jaquett, miscellaneous items. 10. Orderly book of Caleb Prew Bennett at the Battle of Yorktown, 1781. Offprint from Delaware History IV, no. The flag is a Delaware militia flag that's in the Delaware Historical Society's collection. N.p. Samuel Shute journal extracts (transcript), 1781, 34. A Plan of Part of the Province of Pennsylvania . Commanded by Col.s Habersham's /Rae Inquiry re: George Williams veteran status, 1830, Revolutionary War Records, Council of Safety, 1775-1776 (4 folders), 1. Hancock, Harold B. The term "Delaware Line" referred to the quota of one infantry regiment which was assigned to Delaware at various times by the Continental Congress. RG 1105.001 Proceedings of the Privy Council, 1778-1792. Colonels Colonel William Thompson, Colonel Edward Hand, Colonel James Chambers Companies An index to the journal and order book found among the Kirkwood papers. Burning of King Georges Portrait, event poster, 1976. (N.p., n.d). Map with population figures for each state, along with numbers of troops serving in 1776, population of cities in 1776, and important battles of the war. . . 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. Report of Capt. Photostat. 13. Phototstat. Social Media, Built by the Government Information Center Accounts not paid by Philip Barratt and Isaac Carty, n.d. 4. . Gross Receipts Tax 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. Roster and Ancestral Roll. Texas Revolutionary War. Hamilton, Edward P. The Champlain Valley in the American Revolution. Stamp Act Congress (photocopies), 1765, 2. Matters were not helped by inflation. Johnson, Amandus. 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. Dover: Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, 1976. 20. [Part of the modern counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, and Lancaster in Pennsylvania, New Castle in Delaware, and Cecil in Maryland. (Charing Cross: William Faden, 1784). Disposition of British fleet by Sarah OBryan (transcripts), 1777, Revolutionary War Records, Committee of Safety (Pennsylvania), 1776 (1 folder), Revolutionary War Records, Continental Congress, 1776-1778 (2 folders), Revolutionary War Records, Correspondence, 1765-1830 (33 folders), 1. [A Map Showing the Wilmington and Philadelphia Area]. The Delaware Colony. General Dagworthy and John Jones to Caesar Rodney (photostat), 1777, 22. Photostat. from the report of Secretary of War . Only a few Delawareans prominent in the American Revolution are listed below. Duplicate of pamphlet found in the McKinly folder in General ReferenceBiography, and in the Research Room library. . Relief panel by James E. Kelly, ca. #864: Proceedings of the Convention of the Delaware State, August 1776, RG 9270.002 General Reference Collection Biography. Revolutionary War Records Overview The Military Association, 1775-1777 At the beginning of 1775, Pennsylvania, founded under Quaker auspices, differed from other American colonies in being totally devoid of military organization. In the early months of 1777 two Delaware companies joined Washingtons army. R-89: Daniel Terry Boughner, Jr., George Read and the Founding of the Delaware State (Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University, 1968). Beach, John W. The Cape Henlopen Lighthouse. Rockaway, N.J.: American Faculty Press, 1975. New Castle Countys Committee of Inspection, the first organized in Delaware, vigorously pursued such dissent. 2. With Haslets death, Colonel David Hall was given command. This data collection contains an estimated 80,000 application files from officers and enlisted men who served in the Revolutionary War in all branches of the American military: army, navy, and marines. The General Assembly selected the four members, two by the House, and two by the Council. (Charing Cross: William Faden, 1784). Photostat. Delaware Troops Leaving the Green, print of 1915 painting by Stanley Arthurs. The Americans were forced to retreat. Public Archives Commission of Delaware. Soundings . George Washington and Delaware. The Kelly records include a declaration of service, affidavits, and a declaration of proof for Kellys widow Elizabeth. 8. 1. de Valinger, Leon Jr. Map of Dover, Delaware in Revolutionary Times. 1775, 1936. Pension Receipts 1821-1822 (2 folders), RG 1315.006 Revolutionary War Veterans Accounts with the United States Government, 1776-1787. Conrad, Henry. Citing NARA microfilm publication M246. Wilmington : Historical Society of Delaware, 1896. Photostat. Caesar Rodney letters (photostat), 1776, 15. of the Sums Charged in the General . 2. 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. Deposition re: David Parker enlistment, 1780, 29. Newark: University of Delaware, 1953. Taking into account rank and length of service, auditors estimated how much each soldier should receive, issuing depreciation certificates because the currency had been devalued so severely.(16).

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