A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 1

MATHEW THORNTON: (1714 - 1803) Signer of the Declaration of Independence and a pre-Revolution agitator. Bold signature "M. Thornton" on a ...

FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STEUBEN: (1730 - 1794) American Revolutionary general who reported to Washington at Valley Forge to undertake the training of tr

FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STEUBEN: (1730 - 1794) American Revolutionary general who reported to Washington at Valley Forge to undertake the training of tr

(REVOLUTIONARY WAR MUSTER ROLL): War-date manuscript D.S. 2pp. folio [Albany?], May 4, 1778, the muster roll for Capt. Adam Wheeler's Company in...

(SARATOGA PRISONER LIST): Manuscript D.S. 3pp. legal folio, [n.p., n.d.], a list of members of Burgoyne's army captured at Saratoga. The list is...

(SARATOGA CONVENTION ARMY): Manuscript D.S. 2pp. legal folio, [near Charlottesville, Va.], Nov. 14, 1780 "A List of balances due the Convention...

(CANADIAN SARATOGA PRISONERS): Manuscript D.S. 2pp. oblong folio, [Fort Frederick, Md.] July 13, 1781 a "Return of the Canada Companies" l...

(SARATOGA PRISONERS): Manuscript D.S. 2pp. legal folio, [n.p., n.d., 1781, likely Frederick County, Maryland] entitled "A List of British priso...

(SARATOGA CONVENTION ARMY): Manuscript D.S. 1p. oblong legal folio, Frederickstown, Dec. 26, 1780 listing the "Present State of the British Tro...

(SARATOGA PRISONERS): Manuscript D.S. 1p. 4to., [n.p. Maryland?], June 17, 1781 a "Role of the 24th. Regt...." listing approximately 84 im...