Diary and accounts, 1779 June 9-Sept. 16.

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Diary and accounts, 1779 June 9-Sept. 16.

Holograph diary of Lieut. Daniel Clapp of the 1st New Hampshire Regiment, describing his march, June 9-September 16, 1779, with Gen. Sullivan against the Six Nations.

1 v. (70 p.) ; 15 x 18 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7380794

Newberry Library

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Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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Clapp, Daniel, 1746-1817.

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Revolutionary War officer, 1776-1781. Originally of Hanover, N.H., Clapp served as a lieutenant in Bedel's New Hampshire Regiment, July-Nov., 1776; and in the 1st New Hampshire Regiment as a 2d lieutenant, 1776-1778, 1st lieutenant, 1778-1780, and captain, 1780-1781. In 1779, Clapp's regiment participated in Gen. Sullivan's punitive expedition against the Iroquois in Pennsylvania and New York, marching from Easton to Wyoming, Pa., up the Susquehanna River to Tioga, and o...

United States. Continental Army. New Hampshire Regiment, First

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