Orderly book, 1775.

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Orderly book, 1775.

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Orderly book, June 5, 1775 - September 19, 1775, perhaps kept by Ebenezer Brewster (signature on cover). Contains general and regimental orders, including accounts of courts-martial, and some headquarters orders from General Artemas Ward. Based at New London, and (after June 15) Roxbury, where they had gone to take part in the siege of Boston. "Colo[nel] Tylers Orderly Book" on a contemporary slip of paper, with regimental orders dated New London, June 2, 1775, laid in at front of volume.

1 v. (186 p.)

New-York Historical Society

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