Margaret B. Harvey letters and lists, 1898-1899.

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Margaret B. Harvey letters and lists, 1898-1899.

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The collection consists of six letters she wrote to Otis Ashmore, corresponding secretary of the Georgia Historical Society regarding the lists of Revolutionary soldiers she was compiling, enclosing several of her lists of Georgia soldiers. The lists are "Alphabetical List of Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers, Regardless of Rank, Including Continentals, Militia, Sailors, Etc.," "Officers of the Continental Army Who Were Killed in Service, Became Supernumerary, or Served to the Close of the War and Acquired the Right to Half-Pay, Commutation, or Bounty Lands, Georgia Officers," from W.T.R. Saffell, Records of the Revolutionary War (Baltimore: 1894), passim; "Pensioned Officers (Invalids) Georgia," from Saffell, op. cit, 533-534; "Georgia Militia," comp from Harper's Cyclopedia of American History and D.A.R. Lineage Books; "Georgia Archives, Vol. I. Alphabetical List of Revolutionary Soldier," from various sources, "From 'Biographical Annals of the U.S. in Civil Government,'" by Charles Lanman (Washington: 1876); "Georgia Archives, Vol. 1. Georgia Continental Line," "Liberty Troop: Members who had previously served in the war of American Revolution," [from Charles Colcock Jones (1804-1863), Historical Address, delivered to the Liberty Independent Troop...February 22, 1856. Savannah: 1856). The letter of January 10, 1899 includes a list of "Proprietors in the Town of Sunbury who were also Revolutionary Soldiers." Most of Harvey's letters discuss sources. Some lists could not be identified as enclosures and have been counted separately.

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Georgia Historical Society

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In the spring of 1839, three Savannahians—Episcopal divine William Bacon Stevens, renowned autograph collector Israel K. Tefft, and educator, scientist, and American Medical Association founder Dr. Richard D. Arnold—hatched the idea of an organization whose mission would be to “collect, preserve, and diffuse the history of the State of Georgia in particular, and of America generally.” In May of that year they held the first meeting of what was christened the Georgia Historical Society, the te...

Harvey, Margaret B.

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Margaret B. Harvey was the Historian of the Merion Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From the description of Margaret B. Harvey letters and lists, 1898-1899. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 82368276 ...