Orderly books, 1779-1781.

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Orderly books, 1779-1781.

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Orderly books, 1779-1781, kept by Lieutenant Samuel Frost, Adjutant. They contain headquarters, division, brigade and regimental orders, including some accounts of courts-martial. They are dated from various places in New York and New Jersey: Highlands, Orangetown, Teaneck, Steenrapie, Tappan, Totoway, Morristown, New Windsor, and West Point. The first four volumes are accompanied by a typed copy. The last volume contains some resolutions of the Continental Congress. It covers part of the winter of 1780-1781, when the Massachusetts line marched from Totoway, via Haverstraw, to the Hudson Highlands for winter quarters.

6 v.

New-York Historical Society

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Nixon, Thomas

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United States. Continental Army. Massachusetts Regiment, 6th

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Frost, Samuel, 1765-1793

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