Revolutionary War collection, 1783-1979.

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Revolutionary War collection, 1783-1979.

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A receipt signed by Timothy Pickering, Quarter-master General, 1783; photocopy of the orderly book for the troops headquartered at the Robinson farm, 1779-1780; transcript of records from the Public Record Office in London concerning the Hudson River expedition by British troops in 1777; pamphlet reprints of Major General Israel Putnam's orderly book, summer and fall of 1777 in the Hudson Highlands, and of the journal of Dr. Elias Cornelius while a prisoner of the British in New York, 1777-1778; facsimile of George Washington's accounts with the United States, 1775-1783; and clippings, brochures, pamphlets, programs, articles, and maps, 1835-1979, pertaining to the Revolutionary War in the Hudson Highlands, the chain across the Hudson River, generals and leaders, and women during the Revolution.

1.3 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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