A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 2

TIMOTHY PICKERING: (1745 - 1829) American politician and Adjutant General of the Continental Army, Secretary of War (1795) and Secretary of State (179

PHILIP SCHUYLER: (1733 - 1804) American Revolution major general commanding the Northern department, member of the Continental Congress and one of the

RICHARD SMITH: (1735 - 1803) American Revolutionary patriot and member of the Continental Congress who kept a detailed diary of the proceedings of Con

CALEB STRONG: (1750 - 1826) Revolutionary War officer, who organized a colonial force to defeat the British at King's Mountain, first Governor o...

NATHANIEL TRACY: Colonial merchant who operated a fleet of privateers out of Newburyport, Mass. during the American Revolution. Eventually went bankru

JONATHAN TRUMBULL: (1710 - 1785) Governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution who was critical in providing necessary supplies to the Contin

JONATHAN TRUMBULL: (1737 - 1778) Member of the Continental Congress and Commissary-General of the Continental Army from 1775 - 1777. Son of Connecticu

SR. TRUMBULL: (1710 - 1785) American Revolutionary, Governor of Connecticut and the only colonial governor to side with the radicals. Trumbull was clo

ROYALL TYLER: (1757 - 1826) Jurist and playwright, served as an aide to Sullivan, helped suppress Shay's Rebellion, later a nationally renowned ...

RIP VAN DAM: (1662 - 1736) Colonial Governor of New York whose arguments for a fair salary attracted the attention of John Peter Zenger and consequent

ARTEMAS WARD: (1727 - 1800) American Revolutionary general, commander-in-chief of American forces at Cambridge before appointment of George Washington

ANTHONY WALTON WHITE: (1750 - 1803) American major and aide-de-camp to George Washington in 1775. Served under Anthony Wayne in the Georgia Campaign o

JOHN WINSLOW: (1702 - 1774) Massachusetts general of Militia during the French and Indian War who was charged with removing the Acadians in 1755 and l

(AMERICAN REVOLUTION): Group of five pieces including OLIVER WOLCOTT, JR (1760 - 1833), L.S. 1p. 4to., , July 13, 1791 concerning treasu

(CANNON FOR THE CONTINENTAL ARMY): Manuscript D.S. 1p. oblong 4to., Hartford, May 15, 1780 ordering the disbursement of 7547 pounds in Continental Cur

(CAPTURE OF A PRIVATEER): Good content D.S., 1p. oblong 4to., [n.p.], Dec. 4, 1778, a receipt for a share of what was likely a salvaged British ship o

(LOST WAGES FOR A P.O.W.): Manuscript D.S. 1p. oblong 8vo., , June 14, 1777 in which state treasurer Jonathan Laurence orders payment to Tho

(PROOF OF ARMY SERVICE): War date manuscript D.S. 1p. oblong 8vo., Fishkill, Mar. 6, 1781 in which Maj. J. Bruen certifies "...that Hezekiah Ki...

(PROOF OF ARMY SERVICE): Manuscript D.S. 1p. 4to., Middletown, [Conn.], July 3, 1780 certifying that "...Ezra Smith Served in the Army of the U...

(PROOF OF SERVICE): A lot of two manuscript D.S.'s, the first being 1p. oblong, 8vo., dated Saybrook [Conn.], Sept. 28, 1790 certifying that &qu...