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Laurens, John, 1754-1782. Autograph letter signed : to Col Stewart, 1780 Oct.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to Col Stewart, 1780 Oct.

Concerning his horse.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (24mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270598003 View

Franklin-Bache Papers, 1707-1799

Title: Franklin-Bache Papers 1707-1799

Containing over 4 linear feet of letters and documents, the Franklin-Bache Papers comprises the second largest collection of letters and documents relating to Benjamin Franklin in the APS Library. Although the scope of the collection is broad, including materials from the time of Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia to his death, the heart of the collection documents the period of Franklin's ministry in France (1776-1785) and his diplomatic efforts to win financial and military support for the revolutionary cause, as well as less intensive coverage of his ministry in England before the Revolution. Franklin's correspondence with American and French officials, financiers (personal and otherwise), and savants provides tantalizing details on the social context of Franklin's ministry in France, his intellectual life, and his growing celebrity. Much of the correspondence documents the efforts to convince French officials early in the war to support the American cause, but there is valuable material relating to the peace negotiations as well. The collection is equally rich in personal correspondence, including a rich set of letters from Mary Stevenson Hewson, Georgiana Shipley, Catherine Ray Greene, Jane Mecom, Deborah Franklin, and a number of Franklin's other relatives. The collection is arranged chronologically.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85.ba-ead.xml View

Committee Papers of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, 1832–1897

Title: Committee Papers of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, 1832–1897

This series consists of reports, legislative case files, correspondence, and petitions and memorials created by or referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. The committee reports and papers, 1837-1847, consist largely of original and printed committee reports on bills, petitions, and memorials referred to the committee, but also contain some documents supporting claims. The legislative case files, 1853-1897, with gaps, consist of a small number of legislative case files from fewer than one-third of the Congresses between 1853 and 1897. The petitions and memorials, 1832-1897, include supporting documentation. The supporting documentation for claims includes a number of documents dating from the Revolutionary War period, 1774-1781, and other evidentiary documents that predate by dozens of years the petition or bill concerning the claim. The Revolutionary War documents include such military records as muster rolls, commission certificates, letters from superior or fellow officers supporting claims by verifying service, and more personal documents such as letters from family members and, in at least one instance, a will. A few claims concern prominent military and political figures, either directly and indirectly. For example, claims of the widows or other legal heirs of John Laurens (SEN23A-G16), Alexander Hamilton (SEN25A-D17), Silas Deane (SEN26A-D16), Baron Johann deKalb (SEN26A-G18), Nathanael Greene (SEN33A-H21), and Ethan Allen (SEN34A-H21) are documented, at least in part, by these records. Among the records of claims of lesser figures are documents written by Revolutionary leaders. For example, the claim of the heirs of Major Tarlton Woodson (SEN25A-D17) for commutation pay includes items signed by Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, and John Randolph. A sampling of memorials and their accompanying Revolutionary War-era documents found in the records of the committee reveals the memorial of representatives of John Brooks, a captain in the Continental Army, which is accompanied by the letter from General Horatio Gates appointing Brooks "town major" of York, Pennsylvania, (SEN29A-G21); the memorial of Burnett W. Dole, son of Enoch Dole, an Army surgeon from Massachusetts, accompanied by papers dated 1776 (SEN36A-H17); and the memorial of the heirs of John Arndt of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, which includes his officer's commission and original receipts for money advanced to his men (SEN43A-H25). In addition to pensions and commutation pay, some claimants sought compensation for nonmilitary services provided during the Revolution, and for damages to property as a result of military action. Claims for damages did not usually receive sympathetic hearing by the committee, but in the case of the claims for nonmilitary services, bills were sometimes reported favorably. The best documented of these claims was that of the heirs of Haym M. Salomon. Salomon served as paymaster to the French and handled the subsidies provided by the French and Dutch. The records supporting his claim include "statements of financial affairs of the United States, February 1781-September 1789," numerous letters and other accounts, and several printed items (SEN38A-E13, SEN41A-H23). Claims of Anna C. DeNeufville Evans, granddaughter of Amsterdam merchant and war financier John (Jean) DeNeufville (SEN32A-H21) and legal representative of James Bell of Canada (SEN36A-H17) also concern financing the war.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear feet, 6 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/567944 View

Laurens, John, 1754-1782. Letter to Henry Laurens, 1774 Dec. 7.

Title: Letter to Henry Laurens, 1774 Dec. 7.

The collection consists of a letter from John Laurens, Chancery Lane on December 7, 1774, to his father Henry Laurens, Charleston, South Carolina regarding England's reaction to the revolt of the American colonies, including that of the Parliament, the King, and Lord North.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476501 View

United States. Continental Army. Orderly book kept by Major Gibbs, 1778.

Title: Orderly book kept by Major Gibbs, 1778.

"Orderly" book kept by or for Major Gibbs (1778 August 8-28). Orders from headquarters at Tiverton (R.I.) and Newport (R.I.) concern securing provisions, shelter, and ammunition. Included in the volume is information about courts martial, and the organization of troops and detachments. Entries concern Major General Sullivan's placement of armies around Newport (R.I.). This siege of the city ended unsuccessfully when the Comte d'Estaing withdrew the French fleet. The volume includes the "Order of Battle" and the arrangement of troops consisting of the Light Corps, Continental, State, and French troops. Mentioned in the volume are Lieutenant Colonel [John] Laurens of South Carolina, Major General [John] Sullivan, General [Nathanael] Greene, Major General (Marquis de) Lafayette, Colonel John Trumbull, and Major General Hancock.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32141558 View

Laurens, John, 1754-1782. Autograph letter signed : to Gen. Greene, 1782 Mar. 3.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to Gen. Greene, 1782 Mar. 3.

Concerning military matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 1/2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270598011 View

Office Files of Bill Moyers (Johnson Administration). 1961 - 1967. Office Files of Bill Moyers

Title: Office Files of Bill Moyers (Johnson Administration). 1961 - 1967. Office Files of Bill Moyers

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/583756 View

Gratz, Simon. Alphabetical collection, 1677-1910.

Title: Alphabetical collection, 1677-1910.

The alphabetical collection is particularly rich in papers of Protestant American clergymen. Letters, 1795-1820, of American Presbyterian clergy addressed to William Wallace Woodward, a Philadelphia bookseller. Manuscript sermons of such clergymen as Abiel Abbot, Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel Chauncey, Timothy Edwards, Ashbel Green, Levi Hart, Alexander Murray, James Muir, William B. Sprague, Solomon Stoddard, Samuel Willard, and others. The collection includes letters and portraits of many other prominent Americans and Europeans: Theodosia Burr Alston; Governor Edmund Andros, 1677; General John Armstrong, 1769; Susanna Anthony, 1770; John Jacob Astor, 1842; John Bradford, 1720; Governor Jonathan Belcher; George Bryan; George Clinton; George Clymer; DeWitt Clinton, 1822; John Dickinson; William Dearborn, 1808; William Duer, 1786; Edward Everett, 1827; Benjamin Eastburn, 1734; William Eaton, 1805; Albert Gallatin, 1801-1811; Joseph Galloway, 1769; Adolphus W. Greely; Jonathan Greenleaf, 1843; Alexander Hamilton; Samuel Hopkins, 1770; William Harrison, 1786; Patrick Henry; Jared Ingersoll; John Jay, 1822; Washington Irving; Dyre Kearney, 1787; James Kent; Francis Scott Key; John Laurens, 1778; Gouverneur Morris, 1806; John P. Montgomery, 1776; Thomas Mifflin, 1791; John Nicholson, 1795; Isaac Morris; Samuel Otis, 1789; Richard and Thomas Penn, 1755; Edmund Pendleton; James Parker, 1793; Colonel James Rodney, 1764; Joseph Reed, 1812; Peyton Randolph; J. Bayard Smith, 1778; Jonathan D. Sergeant, 1784; Henry De Saussure, 1787; Theodore Sedgwick, 1799; William Tweed, 1871; John Tyler, Jr., 1842; James Wadsworth, 1780; John F. Zubley, 1767; and others. Other miscellaneous items are: manuscripts of James Monroe, 1794-1828, on the French Revolution; instructions to James Monroe by Edmund Randolph, 1794-1796; Aaron Burr letters, 1775-1811; Erick Bollmann, 1810; William Eaton, 1802; Joseph Bonaparte correspondence, 1815-1827; parchment deeds, 1691-1786, of Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Judge John Cleves Symmes to Captain Dayton on settlements west of Ohio and on the Miami, 1789; papers relating to Indian affairs, 1789-1806; Irish Revolution papers, 1806-1813; Mexico and South America, 1785-1843; United States Bank, 1805; Bank of North America, 1813-1814; Canadian Rebellion, 1837-1838; political relations between France and America, 1783-1793; letters of writers, artists, scholars, scientists, physicians, apothecaries, penologists, reformers, etc., ca. 1711-1910, including Joseph Lancaster's voluminous correspondence on education, James Rumsey's manuscripts and printed material, 1788, concerning his invention of the first steam vessel, and other papers bearing on intellectual trends.

ArchivalResource: 100 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474586 View

Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 6 -- Letters to Franklin, 1781-1782

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 6 -- Letters to Franklin 1781-1782

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85inventory06-ead.xml View

Lovett, Caroline Lewis. Caroline Lewis Lovett letters and address, 1921-1970.

Title: Caroline Lewis Lovett letters and address, 1921-1970.

The papers in this collection are letters Caroline Lewis Lovett received from literary persons; a few are from her to them. Correspondents are Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, and his wife, Rosemary; William Rose Benet, editor; Berry Fleming, novelist; and Walker Hancock, sculptor. The 1921 letter contains reminiscences of Augusta, Georgia. They are arranged in folders alphabetically by the name of the correspondent.

ArchivalResource: 5 folders (.15 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86108130 View

Records of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, 1973 - . Video Tape Programs and Worldnet Broadcasts, 1999 - 2009

Title: Records of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, 1973 - . Video Tape Programs and Worldnet Broadcasts, 1999 - 2009

ArchivalResource: 4104 video cassettes and 1497 video open reels

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/74221734 View

Davie, Preston, b. 1881. Preston Davie collection, 1560-1903.

Title: Preston Davie collection, 1560-1903.

Papers are scattered, largely unrelated items, some of interest chiefly as autographs, others containing significant information on political and military affairs. The greatest number of items relates to the Revolutionary War in the South, particularly the Carolinas, but also Virginia and Georgia. These include letters and other documents of many military and civic leaders. There are papers related to French attempts at colonization in the 16th century, 18th-century colonial history of the Carolinas, and the siege of Charleston, S.C., 1780; and letters, 1774-1779, from John Pringle (1753-1843) of South Carolina discussing American Revolutionary diplomacy from Europe. A separate series consists of documents pertaining to lands in North and South Carolina acquired by the Kershaw and Chesnut families of South Carolina. Persons represented in the collection include: John Ashe (1720?- 1781), Theodore Broughton, William Bull (1710-1791), Thomas Burke (ca. 1747-1783), Richard Caswell (1729-1789), Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572), Christopher Gadsden (1724-1805), Horatio Gates (1728-1806), Alexander Gillon (1741-1794), James Glen (1701-1777), Nathanael Greene (1742-1786), Wade Hampton (1754-1835), Cornelius Harnett (1723-1781), William Howe (1732-1786), Allen Jones (1729-1793), Henry Laurens (1724-1792), John Laurens (1754-1782), John Alexander Lillington (1725-1786), Francis Marion (1732-1795), Alexander Martin (1740-1807), Abner Nash (1740-1786), Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828), Griffith Rutherford (1721-1805), John Rutledge (1739- 1800), Jethro Sumner (1733-1785), Nicholas Trott (1663-1740), and William Tryon (1729-1788).

ArchivalResource: About 600 items (3.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26380451 View

Coleman, Juliet Cox, 1906-. Juliet Cox Coleman notes, circa 1939.

Title: Juliet Cox Coleman notes, circa 1939.

Typewritten and handwritten notes by Mrs. Coleman, of Richmond, Va., concerning John Laurens, American Revolutionary figure.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71132021 View

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Col. Laurens, 1781 Oct. 4.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Col. Laurens, 1781 Oct. 4.

Manuscript letter addressed to Col. Laurens, Headquarters, Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet (2 p.) ; 37 x 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49371178 View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume X, miscellany, 1764-1805

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume X, miscellany, 1764-1805

Portraits, prints, letters, and documents tipped into Volume 10 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72 ++ 1898). Portraits: Washington Irving, Nathanael Greene (2), Comte de Rochambeau, Timothy Pickering, Thomas Sumter (2), Francis Rawdon (2), Benjamin Tallmadge, Horatio Gates, John Andre (5), Honora Sneyd, Benedict Arnold (4), Alexander Hamilton (2), John Lawrence, William Smith (2), John Laurens, Champe, Joseph Thayendaneken, Lord Cornwallis (2), Banastre Tarleton (2), John Graves Simcoe, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Otho Holland Williams, H. William Green, Henry Lee, Colonel Stewart, unidentified (2). Prints: The Ballance of Power; Landung einer Französischen hülfs Armee in America, zu Rhode Island am 11ten Julius 1780; [Death of de Kalb]; Major Andre, taken prisoner; Arrestation du Major André an Bourg Tarry Town; Capture of Andre; (colored) Last Words of Captain Nathan Hale, the Hero-Martyr of the American Revolution; The Seventy Six Stone House at Tappan; Seventy Six Stone House Rear; [Major Andre on his way to the gallows]; [Escape of Sergeant Champe]; The South Prospect of the City of New York in North America; Battle of Cowpens--Conflict between Cols. Washington & Tarleton; Female Patriotism--Mrs. Steele & Genl. Greene; Koscuisko's Monument. Letters: ALS, Comte de Rochambeau to [?], January 4, 1764; ALS, Nathanael Greene to Thomas Jefferson, June 1, 1785; A[aman.]LS, Richard Caswell to the General Assembly, May 3, 1777; ALS, Banastre Tarleton to Robert Brownrigg, February 5, 1804; James McHenry to Charles Pinckney, Gov. of South Carolina, August 1, 1797; ALS, Aaron Ogden to Jonathan Dayton, February 26, 1805; ALS, Stephen van Renneselaer to Thomas Morris, December 20, 1792; ALS, Robert Stark to Jacob Reed, May 20, 1778; ALS, John Lewis Gervais to [?], January 24, 1779; ALS, ALexander Campbell to Arthur Lee, June 30, 1785; ALS, Francis Marion to [?], February 4, 1779; ALS, Tobias Lear to James Greenleaf, January 12, 1794; AL[frag.], [Anthony Wayne] to [?], March 4, 1793; ALS, Joseph Reed to Samuel Atlee, June 22, 1780; AL, [Robert Howe] to John Rutledge, Gov. of South Carolina, October 6, 1776; AL[frag.]S, James Garvey to [?], February 9, 1780; ALS, Banastre Tarleton to Robert Brownrigg, November 17, 1803; ALS, Henry Lee to Maj. Retion, August 13, 1794; Banastre Tarleton to Robert Brownrigg, May 5, 1805. Documents: ADS[facsimile], Benedict Arnold, [Pass for John André], September 22, 1780; ADS, Benjamin Tallmadge, [receipt], June 24, 1780.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (81 items).

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/2096340 View

Portrait file: Guide.

Title: Portrait file: Guide.

The Portrait File is an alphabetically arranged collection of portait images of individuals, groups of individuals, and views and miscellany, received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01675/catalog View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Collection of documents concerning the American Revolution, 1740-1866

Title: Jared Sparks collection of documents concerning the American Revolution, 1740-1866 .

Documents copied or collected by American historian and president of Harvard Jared Sparks.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00303/catalog View

William Temple Franklin Papers, 1775-1819

Title: William Temple Franklin Papers 1775-1819

The son of William Franklin, Royal Governor of New Jersey, William Temple Franklin worked as aide to his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin, when the latter served as minister to France during the American Revolution. A bonvivant, Temple received his highest public appointment as Secretary to the American delegation at the Treaty of Versailles in 1782-1783, largely through the influence of his famous grandfather, but never again attained a significant post. As Franklin's literary heir, he edited and published a three volume set of his grandfather's writings in 1817. He married his long time mistress a few months before his death in Paris in 1823. The William Temple Franklin Papers provides a richly detailed portrait of the life of the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, and consists largely of letters received during the years that Temple served as his grandfather's aide in France, 1776-1785. Although much of the correspondence is routine, during this period, Temple received regular reports from friends and diplomatic colleagues relaying information on the American Revolution, the course of diplomatic and peace negotiations, and French public opinion on Benjamin Franklin and the new United States. The collection is also a rich resource for information on the personal lives of the Franklins, including interesting correspondence from Temple's relatives William Franklin, Elizabeth Franklin, Sarah Franklin Bache, and Jonathan Williams, and his mistress Blanchette Caillot.

ArchivalResource: 4.75 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F86-ead.xml View

Henry and John Laurens papers, 1773-1790

Title: Henry and John Laurens papers 1773-1790

ArchivalResource: 0.82 Linear feet; in two manuscript boxes.

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arms_1974_119_laurens/arms_1974_119_laurens.html View

Letters Received from Commissioned Officers Below the Rank of Commander and from Warrant Officers, 1802–1886

Title: Letters Received from Commissioned Officers Below the Rank of Commander and from Warrant Officers, 1802–1886

This series consists of letters from lieutenants, lieutenant commanders, ensigns, assistant surgeons, pursers, paymasters, chaplains, and professors of mathematics holding commissions as regular or volunteer officers of the U.S. Navy, boatswains, sailmakers, coopers, carpenters, gunners, and engineers. Letters for the period 1802-1807 include reports from lieutenants assigned to the command of gunboats and other vessels that were part of the American fleet in the Mediterranean. Prior to 1862 there are letters from officers holding warrants as midshipmen and during the Civil War period there are letters from masters and mates. A supplemental volume for 1884 has some letters from higher ranking officers, including the Colonel Commandant of the Marine Corps; and there are a few letters from officers of higher rank in other volumes. Many of the letters concern administrative and personnel matters, such as orders for duty, leave or furlough, pay, desertions, resignation, general courts-martial, health, and the settlement of accounts. Letters also include descriptions of naval engagements, epidemics, reports of captures, reports of delays in sailing, arrivals in port, and repairs performed on vessels. After 1865 the Office of Detail, a division of the Bureau of Navigation, handled many of the matters concerning duty assignments and leave for commissioned officers and received the letters from officers on these subjects. There are also post-1860 reports of services performed by chaplains. Among the letters received relating to naval operations are reports of captures of enemy vessels received from lieutenants in command of or assigned to vessels in the Mediterranean during the war with Tripoli and on the Great Lakes or in the Atlantic during the War of 1812. Also included are Lt. John McLaughlin's reports of Indian hostilities during the second Florida Indian War, 1839-1842. A number of letters contain reports from lieutenants and passed midshipmen who led or participated in exploring relief expeditions during the period 1839-1884. Scientific matters are the subjects of letters received from officers assigned to the Depot of Charts and Instruments, the Naval Observatory, and the Nautical Almanac Office during the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s. Reports of local political conditions in various parts of Latin America, particularly Mexico, are included in letters dated immediately before and after the Mexican War of 1846-1848. Among the letters are reports of Lt. C. G. Hunter from Trieste on the movements of the combined fleet of Sardinia and Naples and the Austrian Army in June 1848 and a letter of April 23, 1850, from Lt. Thomas J. Page describing conditions in China after the death of Emperor Tao-kuang. Also, lieutenants who traveled to various parts of Europe submitted lengthy reports of their observations of foreign naval vessels and shipyards upon their return to the country. Enclosures in the form of returns, lists, muster rolls, drawings, and maps are located with some of the letters, and there are some telegrams after 1850.

ArchivalResource: 193 linear feet

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/718927 View

Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792. Henry Laurens papers, 1747-1860.

Title: Henry Laurens papers, 1747-1860.

Papers consist of correspondence, congressional and military records, and other items. Papers pertaining to Laurens' service in the U.S. Continental Congress include correspondence; minutes, journals, resolves, memorials, and reports of the Congress and its committees; speeches and other material (1777-1779) pertaining to the Cherokee, Creek, and Chickasaw Indians, mostly in East Florida; reports on military conditions, engagements, losses, and prisoners; and notes on debates.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70971817 View

Lee family. Brock Collection: Lee family papers, 1722-1892 (bulk 1765-1870).

Title: Brock Collection: Lee family papers, 1722-1892 (bulk 1765-1870).

Papers, chiefly correspondence, of four generations of the Lee family.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 pieces.2 boxes : 5 oversized folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228721095 View

Berol, Alfred C.,. American Revolutionary letters and documents, 1650-1830, [microform].

Title: American Revolutionary letters and documents, 1650-1830, [microform].

A collection of letters and documents pertaining to the American Revolution, or to personages who figured in it. Among the persons represented in the collection are John Adams, Edmund Burke, Aaron Burr, Lord Cornwallis, Benjamin Franklin, Nathanael Greene, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, Marquis de Lafayette, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Robert Morris, William Pitt, Benjamin Rush, Baron von Steuben, and George Washington. The largest group of manuscripts in the collection is the sixteen letters of Henry Laurens, the South Carolina planter, and his son, John Laurens, among which is a magnificent "manumission letter" written by Henry Laurens to his son on 14 August 1776, barely a month after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. For the text of this letter see: A LETTER FROM HENRY LAURENS TO HIS SON JOHN LAURENS, AUGUST 14, 1776.

ArchivalResource: 1 positive reel.1 master negative reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515193 View

Nathanael Greene Papers, 1775-1785

Title: Nathanael Greene Papers 1775-1785

Army officer. Correspondence, letterbook, militia lists, documents relating to the Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes, and military reports documenting Greene's military career with emphasis on his involvement in the Continental Army campaign in the Southern Department.

ArchivalResource: 400 items; 5 containers; 1 linear foot; 2 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009092 View

Washington, George, 1732-1799. Letter signed [in the hand of John Laurens] : Headquarters Camp at Cross Roads, to George Clinton, 1777 Aug. 16.

Title: Letter signed [in the hand of John Laurens] : Headquarters Camp at Cross Roads, to George Clinton, 1777 Aug. 16.

Discussing military strategy; opposing the proposed full head-on attack of the British, suggesting instead that they keep the enemy concerned about its flank and side troops; and encouraging the embellishment of the numbers of reinforcement troops to raise the morale of the soldiers.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 37.9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/656366405 View

Franklin-Bache Papers, 1707-1799

Title: Franklin-Bache Papers 1707-1799

Containing over 4 linear feet of letters and documents, the Franklin-Bache Papers comprises the second largest collection of letters and documents relating to Benjamin Franklin in the APS Library. Although the scope of the collection is broad, including materials from the time of Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia to his death, the heart of the collection documents the period of Franklin's ministry in France (1776-1785) and his diplomatic efforts to win financial and military support for the revolutionary cause, as well as less intensive coverage of his ministry in England before the Revolution. Franklin's correspondence with American and French officials, financiers (personal and otherwise), and savants provides tantalizing details on the social context of Franklin's ministry in France, his intellectual life, and his growing celebrity. Much of the correspondence documents the efforts to convince French officials early in the war to support the American cause, but there is valuable material relating to the peace negotiations as well. The collection is equally rich in personal correspondence, including a rich set of letters from Mary Stevenson Hewson, Georgiana Shipley, Catherine Ray Greene, Jane Mecom, Deborah Franklin, and a number of Franklin's other relatives. The collection is arranged chronologically.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85.ba-ead.xml View

Laurens, John, 1754-1782. Autograph letter signed : to the quarter master general, 1781 Oct. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to the quarter master general, 1781 Oct. 23.

Concerning purchases in York Town.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270598007 View

Washington, George, 1732-1799. Letter signed [in the hand of John Laurens] : Headquarters, Philadelphia, to [James] Clinton, 1779 Jan. 25.

Title: Letter signed [in the hand of John Laurens] : Headquarters, Philadelphia, to [James] Clinton, 1779 Jan. 25.

Thanking him for the execution of the order to build the Oneida Indians' fort; and instructing instructs the troops at Cherry Valley to be relocated because he believed the damage to the area would make it a target for a British attack.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/655913170 View

Laurens, John, 1754-1782. John Laurens letter, 1779.

Title: John Laurens letter, 1779.

This collection consists of a letter from John Laurens to his father, Henry Laurens, 1779, reporting on the military situation after the failure of the Savannah siege and stating the necessity of reinforcements. In the letter, Laurens mentions Count d'Estaing. The letter is a photocopy of the original in the New York Public Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86108101 View

Laurens, John, 1754-1782. Commonplace book, 1779.

Title: Commonplace book, 1779.

John Laurens' observations on military activities in the American Revolution and on the importance of defending the Carolinas from the British; also his account of the aid rendered by the French fleet in the Chesapeake and Delaware bays, under command of Comte de Grasse and Comte d'Estaing, preventing the arrival of British reinforcements and retarding British operations.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122489723 View

William A. Oldridge Collection of George Washington's Headquarters Staff Writings, 1775-1962, (bulk 1775-1783)

Title: William A. Oldridge Collection of George Washington's Headquarters Staff Writings 1775-1962 (bulk 1775-1783)

Transcripts of letters collected and edited by Oldridge. Includes correspondence, writings, and other papers of Oldridge concerning the location of papers and illustrations of Washington's headquarters staff and historical accounts from the original material.

ArchivalResource: 200 items; 4 containers; 1.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012188 View

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804. Letter : to [John Laurens], 1781 Feb. 4.

Title: Letter : to [John Laurens], 1781 Feb. 4.

Letter concerns movements and operations of the British and Continental armies in South Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and discusses a motion made by Gen. Schuyler in Congress proposing a convention of the states to achieve "a solid confederation to give sufficient powers to Congress for calling forth the resources of the country ... for the support of the war." Hamilton also mentions the importance of foreign loans.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32144795 View

Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (bulk:1700-1800)

Title: Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (inclusive), 1700-1800 (bulk)

The portion of the Emmet Collection housed in the Manuscripts and Archives Division consists of approximately 10,800 historical manuscripts relating chiefly to the period prior to, during, and following the American Revolution. The collection contains letters and documents by the signers of the Declaration of Independence as well as nearly every prominent historical figure of the period.

ArchivalResource: 30.83 linear feet; 108 boxes, 21 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/927 View

McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817. Papers, 1759-1847.

Title: Papers, 1759-1847.

Correspondence with prominent people of the time, relating to the events of the Revolution. The papers include letters from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Laurens, Caesar Rodney, and others, 1759-1847; letters to McKean's wife, 1775-1806; commissions, diplomas, and miscellaneous documents, 1777-1802; pamphlet, Discourse of a Vacuum, 1752; book of poetry and songs; and McKean's charges to grand juries on his circuit, 1777-1779.

ArchivalResource: ca. 650 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584770 View

Holmes, Josiah, 1790-1860. Papers 1667-1918.

Title: Papers 1667-1918.

Papers relating primarily to the affairs of the Holmes family of Kingston, Massachusetts, through several generations. In part, transcripts (handwritten) of official records. Chiefly legal papers, including deeds and land agreements (1667-1891), wills, appointments to office, and general orders; together with correspondence, genealogical notes, printed material, and other papers, relating to a Kingston, Mass., family. Includes letter (1832) by John Quincy Adams, two letters by Col. John Laurens to Maj. Gen. Lee, and a 1787 printed copy of the U.S. Constitution.

ArchivalResource: 200 items (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11265799 View

John Laurens papers.

Title: John Laurens papers.

Letters, 1774-1828, re his activities during the Revolutionary War, with letters to Gen, Mordecai Gist, Peter Manigault, Henry Laurens, and Benjamin Lincoln, and biographical sketch from "The souvenir." Consisting of letters, 2 Nov. 1774, to Henry Laurens, Kings Arms Inn, Falmouth, re "preparing for your stageless voyage," enclosing certain newspapers, and remarking "I can tell you nothing ... of public news, but that the King was ... well received at the play to night"; 20 Oct. 1775, [London], to Henry Laurens, Charles Town, re the upcoming meeting of parliament and its consideration of the colonists grievances; 30 Sept. 1776, to [Peter?] Manigault, Geneva, re his intentions to return to America and victory over Sir Peter Parker; Oct. 1778, [Fredericksburg, N.Y.], to [Jabez] Bowen, acknowledging his letter proposing to give Laurens a horse in exchange for a mare which Bowen had purchased for him, explaining that the mare fell sick on his journey to camp and died later, and describing a white mare which he left [in Rhode Island], and requesting him to locate the mare and to arrange for her sale; 11 Nov. 1779, Halifax, [North Carolina] to Maj. Gen. [Benjamin] Lincoln, Charlestown, reporting his arrival "and with Col. Longs Remounts intend to proceed as far as Ricks ford this evening," where Mr. [John?] Rutledge is ill, 3,000 troops voted by the North Carolina Assembly to serve in South Carolina for "three months after their rendezvous," and commenting "Genl. [Charles?] Scott ... remains in status quo"; 27 Jan. 1780, off Charleston Bar, [to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln?], re defense of the bar and harbor; 15 Mar. 1781, Passy [France], to [James] Searle, informing him of his arrival with letters from America; 21 Apr. 1780, Lampries, to Maj. Gen. [Benjamin Lincoln] reporting his attempts to secure information on the enemy and the "state of our calvary," and discussing the plight of "thirty women and children here," suggesting that the government take charge of them; 15 Aug. 1780, signed "I am yours, Lafayette," from Light Infantry Camp, to Colonel Laurens, Philadelphia, Pa., marginalia notes "killed in S. Carolina Aug. 1782"; 29 May 1781, Breil, to his sister, Le Vigen, expressing regrets for not having an opportunity to spend some time with her; 6 and 10 July 1982, to Gen. Mordecai Gist and Maj. Burnet re removal of ordnance from Charleston by British, "general evacuation expected in Oct., deserters of the militia --" ... the adherents to the British fortunes are making up their baggage--"; printed extract of a letter, 30 Aug. 1782, relating death of J.L. in engagement with British; and a biographical sketch, 24 Dec. 1828, titled "American biography," from "The souvenir," relating chiefly his activities during the Revolutionary War.

ArchivalResource: 14 items

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Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Miscellany, 1755-1835

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Miscellany, Volume XI, Miscellany, 1755-1835

Portraits, prints, letters, and documents tipped into Volume 11 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856)

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (84 items)

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Record Group 360: Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention, 1765-1821. Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Title: Papers of the Continental Congress

This series consists of the papers of the Continental Congress. The volumes include journals (rough, corrected, and secret) of the Congress, and other record books maintained by Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress; letterbooks (containing copies of letters sent) of the Presidents of the Congress and of a few committees such as the Committee to Headquarters and the Committee for Foreign Affairs; and transcripts of original diplomatic dispatches received from political agents and ministers of the United States residing abroad, and of letters received from French envoys in the United States and from Generals George Washington, Horatio Lloyd Gates, Nathanael Greene, and Philip Schuyler; and a few supplementary record books containing copies of passports and copies of commissions of foreign ministers and consuls kept by the Department of Foreign Affairs. The series also contains reports of committees of Congress; memorials and petitions addressed to Congress; official communications from the several States; a large number of miscellaneous letters addressed chiefly to the President of Congress; original letters (despatches) received from political agents and diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States abroad; letters (notes) from the Dutch, French, and Spanish envoys in the United States; papers relating to claims for captured vessels, including some decisions by the admiralty courts of the various States; papers relating to the New Hampshire Grants controversy; original letters from George Washington and other generals; oaths of allegiance; ships' bonds required for Letters of Marque issued to American privateers; and letters and reports from the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Board of Treasury, the Office of the Superintendent of Finance, the Board of War, the Secretary of War, and the Office of the Postmaster General.

ArchivalResource: 796 linear feet, 8 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1938489 View

Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 13 -- Miscellaneous Franklin Materials, 1640-1791

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 13 -- Miscellaneous Franklin Materials 1640-1791

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85inventory13-ead.xml View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

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Stewart, Charles, 1729-1800. Family papers, 1768-1877

Title: Charles Stewart family papers, 1768-1877

Papers of Charles Stewart, the Commissary General of Issues, Continental Army and delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey along with some family documents.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01286/catalog View

Berol, Alfred C.,. Alfred C. Berol papers, 1650-1830.

Title: Alfred C. Berol papers, 1650-1830.

A collection of letters and documents pertaining to the American Revolution, or to personages who figured in it. Among the persons represented in the collection are John Adams, Edmund Burke, Aaron Burr, Lord Cornwallis, Benjamin Franklin, Nathanael Greene, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, Marquis de Lafayette, Henry Brockholst Livingston, Robert Morris, William Pitt, Benjamin Rush, Baron von Steuben, and George Washington. The largest group of manuscripts in the collection is the sixteen letters of Henry Laurens, the South Carolina planter, and his son, John Laurens, among which is a magnificent "manumission letter" written by Henry Laurens to his son on 14 August 1776, barely a month after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. For the text of this letter see: A LETTER FROM HENRY LAURENS TO HIS SON JOHN LAURENS, AUGUST 14, 1776.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft. ( 3 boxes)

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Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Jones, Katharine M. (Katharine Macbeth), 1900-. Katharine M. Jones papers, 1951-1977.

Title: Katharine M. Jones papers, 1951-1977.

Typescripts, bibliographies, and research notes for three unpublished books: "General Washington and Aide de Camp Colonel John Laurens," "The Spirit of 1819: President Monroe Tours the South, " and "Farewell the Plumed Troop, and the Big Wars: From Appomattox to Fort Monroe, April-May 1865." Other items include biographical material; published magazine and newspaper articles by Jones; reviews and promotional materials for her books; and notes and newspaper clippings re American Revolution, South Carolina women, the Confederacy, and Greenville, S.C. Includes correspondence, 1962-1963, as a member of the Women's Committee of the Civil War Centennial Commission; letters, 24 July 1953 - 13 Feb. 1962, from David Laurance Chambers, editor and editor emeritus of Bobbs-Merrill Co.; and letters from Bobbs-Merrill staff members Harrison Platt, Monroe Stearns, Rosemary York, and Anne McDonald.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft. (2 cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47759728 View

Laurens, John. Autograph draft of a letter in the autograph of George Washington : to Count de Grasse, 1781 Sept. 25.

Title: Autograph draft of a letter in the autograph of George Washington : to Count de Grasse, 1781 Sept. 25.

Asking his cooperation with the fleet in the Chesapeake Bay.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (fol.)

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Laurens, John, 1754-1782. Autograph letter signed : "Pendarvis's" (?), to Col. Morris, 1781 Dec. 4.

Title: Autograph letter signed : "Pendarvis's" (?), to Col. Morris, 1781 Dec. 4.

Promising to join him at his quarters in the morning.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Laurens, John, 1754-1782. Autograph letter signed : "Camp before York", 1781 Oct. 19th.

Title: Autograph letter signed : "Camp before York", 1781 Oct. 19th.

Concerning the date for the signing of the "capitulation" by Cornwallis.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270595601 View

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834. ALS, November 10, 1825, by Marquis de Lafayette, memorial to Lt. Col. John Laurens, La Grange [South Carolina].

Title: ALS, November 10, 1825, by Marquis de Lafayette, memorial to Lt. Col. John Laurens, La Grange [South Carolina].

A memorial to Lt. Col. John Laurens, son of the President of the U.S. Congress, whose Revolutionary War career ended when he was killed in a minor action at Combahee Ferry, S.C., at the war's end, 27 August 1782. Lafayette writes, " ... John Laurens ... has been an honor to his country and an honor to mankind." ... "The brilliant, devoted, and steady services of Col. Laurens in our Revolutionary struggle are so conspicuously connected with the history of American independence and freedom that a minute account of his civil, military and political career would be superfluous ..."

ArchivalResource: 1 1/3 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19088757 View

Transcripts of Letters from Francis Dana, Henry Laurens, and John Laurens

Title: Transcripts of Letters from Francis Dana, Henry Laurens, and John Laurens

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2316037 View

Manigault, Gabriel, 1758-1809. Gabriel Manigault papers, 1775-1839.

Title: Gabriel Manigault papers, 1775-1839.

Papers consist of correspondence, a weather journal, and estate papers. Correspondence (1775-1778) of Gabriel Manigault is with his grandmother Ann Ashby Manigault, John Farquharson, Stead family members, and others from Charleston (S.C.), New York (N.Y.), and Geneva (Switzerland) concerning family matters, Geneva, travels in Europe, Revolutionary War events in New York and Charleston, privateers, and other matters. A letterbook (1776-1777) contains copies of letters from Gabriel Manigault in Geneva (Switzerland) to his grandfather Gabriel Manigault (1704-1781), John Laurens, and others concerning travels in Europe, his education, the Revolutionary War, and other matters. A weather journal (1776-1804) records temperature and other weather conditions at Geneva (Switzerland) for 1776, at Charleston (S.C.) for 1784 to 1792, and at New York (N.Y) for 1793 to 1804. There are also notes regarding coins used in Geneva and mountain heights in Switzerland, and newspaper clippings about weather. Estate papers (1817-1839) for the estates of Gabriel Manigault (1758-1809) and his wife Margaret Izard Manigault (1768-1824) consist of accounts, letters, and legal documents concerning estate settlement and disputes. Included are estate papers (1839) pertaining to the Timmons family.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.ca. 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35953320 View

Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.

Title: Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01435/catalog View

Laurens, John. Oral history with John Laurens 1972

Title: Oral history with John Laurens 1972

ArchivalResource: audio interview

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/718537466 View

Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792. Papers of Henry Laurens, 1747-1882.

Title: Papers of Henry Laurens, 1747-1882.

Correspondence, journal of the Council of Safety, Army and Navy returns, and material relating to transactions with the French minister, Indian affairs, the Revolution, commerce, and plantation affairs, and reflecting various aspects of colonial economic history. Correspondents include John Adams, William Bell, John Ettwein, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, John Laurens, William Livingston, and George Washington.

ArchivalResource: 19 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71069007 View

Laurens, James, 1728-1784. James Laurens correspondence, 1772-1784.

Title: James Laurens correspondence, 1772-1784.

A disbound letter book (1772-1775) contains copies of letters of James Laurens and others written while he was overseeing Henry Laurens' plantations and business affairs during the latter's stay in England. Letters, mostly to Henry Laurens, concern business and financial matters, land transactions, plantation and family affairs, and other matters, and are mostly from Charleston (S.C.) to Philadelphia (Pa.), London (England), Geneva (Switzerland), and elsewhere. Correspondents include Henry Laurens, John Laurens (son of Henry Laurens), John Petrie, William Fisher, Richard Grubb, William Cowles, Bordieu & Chollet, Richard Oswald, and Reynolds, Getley & Co. Letters (1776-1784) of James Laurens to Henry Laurens from England and France discuss matters such as James Laurens' health, business affairs, family and friends, and the death of John Petrie, nephew of James Laurens. Three letters (1783-1784) to Henry Laurens from Mary Laurens, wife of James Laurens, mainly concern her husband's poor health and other family matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36794018 View