Elisha Porter papers, 1762-1822.

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Elisha Porter papers, 1762-1822.

Army officer. Correspondence, commissions, returns, regimental lists, orders and reports relating to Porter's military service (1775-82) with the 4th Hampshire County Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia in the Revolution and Shays' Rebellion, the war effort (1775-76) in the Hadley, Mass., area, and Porter's duties as sheriff and justice of the peace of Hampshire County, Mass. Correspondents include Benedict Arnold, Elbridge Gerry, Joseph Hawley, Samuel Hopkins, Samuel Osgood, Col. Joseph Reed, Gen. Philip Schuyler, Gen. William Shepard, John Trumbull (1756-1843), Israel Williams, Baron Frederick de Woedtke, and David Wooster.

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