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Collection: Revolutionary War Collection

Title: Revolutionary War Collection

Object ID: MG0098

Date Range: 1776-1976

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Collection: Revolutionary War Collection

Title: Revolutionary War Collection

Description: The Revolutionary War Collection contains a variety of materials from and about the Revolutionary War in Lancaster County and Pennsylvania. The original records include correspondence, military pay certificates, court records, and an orderly book kept by Lt. Col. Adam Hubley, Jr. during the Sullivan Campaign of 1779. There are also research notes and secondary sources, including a list of prisoners of war, a list of males in Lancaster County in 1776, Continental Hospital Returns 1777-1780, articles, information on soldiers buried in Lancaster County, and an article about John Paul Jones.

Date Range: 1776-1976

Creation Date: 1776-1976

Year Range From: 1776

Year Range To: 1976

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

People: Beddulph, Robert; Boyd, John; Burd, James Edward; Chambers, Stephen; Coedans, James; Cooke, William; Ferree, John; Getty, Christian; Gurney, Francis; Hubley, Adam; Jolly, James A. "Jim"; Joy, Daniel; Kieffer, Henry Martyn; Moore, William; Neal, James; Patterson, Alex; Porter, Thomas; Ramsay, David; Rapp, Brandon; Reid, George W.; Worner, William Frederic; Zellty, John A.

Subjects: Cemeteries; Letters; Military history; Military regulations; Newtown, Battle of, Newtown, N.Y., 1779; Prisoners of war; Soldiers; Stony Point, Battle of, Stony Point, N.Y., 1779; Sullivan's Indian Campaign, 1779; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons

Search Terms: Battle of Newtown; Battle of Stony Point; Cemeteries; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Correspondence; Finding aids; Haudenosaunee Confederacy; Letters; Manuscript groups; Military history; Military records; Military regulations; Prisoners of war; Receipts; Revolutionary War; Soldiers; Sullivan Campaign, 1779

Extent: 3 boxes, 40 folders, 1.25 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0098

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Credit: Revolutionary War Collection (MG-98), Box #, Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.

Other Numbers: MG-98

Other Number: MG-98

Classification: MG0098

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged prior to 1997. Items have been added and the finding aid has been updated since 1997.

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Journals of the Continental Congress

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17672

Corporate Author: United States. Continental Congress.

Date of Publication: 1904-37.

Call Number: 973.312 J86

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Corporate Author: United States. Continental Congress.

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,

Date of Publication: 1904-37.

Physical Description: 34 v. facsims. (part fold.) 27 cm.

Dates of Publication: v.1-34; 1774-1789.

Notes: At head of title: Library of Congress.; "Edited from the original records in the Library of Congress."; Edited in the Divisions of Manuscripts, Library of Congress: v. 1- 15, Sept. 5, 1774-Dec. 31, 1779 by Worthington Chauncy Ford; v. 16-27, Jan. 1, 1780-Dec. 24, 1784 by Gaillard Hunt; v.28-31, Jan. 11, 1785-Dec. 31, 1786 by John C. Fitzpatrick; v.32-34, Jan. 17, 1787-March 2, 1789 by Roscoe R. Hill.; Index volume compiled by Kenneth E. Harris and Steven D. Tilley.; Library has: volumes 1 to 28 (1774-1785).; "Bibliographical notes" for 1774, 1775, etc. are found in the last vol. of "Journals" for the corresponding years, i.e. in v. 1, 3, 6, 9, etc. These notes are based upon "Some materials for a bibliography of the official publications of the Continental Congress ... by Paul Leicester Ford."

Subjects: United States. - Continental Congress - Bibliography.; Constitutional history - United States - Sources.; United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Additional Author: Ford, Worthington Chauncey,; Hunt, Gaillard,; Fitzpatrick, John Clement,; Hill, Roscoe R.,; Harris, Kenneth E.,; Tilley, Steven D.,

Additional Corporate Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.312 J86

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https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006771172

A national register of the society, Sons of the American Revolution

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Corporate Author: Sons of the American Revolution.

Date of Publication: 1902]

Call Number: 369.13 S698

Responsibility: comp. and pub. under the auspices of the national publication committee by Louis H. Cornish ... register list collated and ed. by A. Howard Clark ...

Corporate Author: Sons of the American Revolution.

Place of Publication: [New York

Publisher: Press of A. H. Kellogg,

Date of Publication: 1902]

Physical Description: 1035 p. col. front., illus., plates, port. 26 cm.

Notes: Separate index (369.13 S698 Index).

Subjects: Sons of the American Revolution.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Societies, etc.

Additional Author: Clark, Alonzo Howard,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369.13 S698

Directory of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution

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Corporate Author: Daughters of the American Revolution.

Date of Publication: 1908.

Call Number: 369.13 D235

Responsibility: compiled by order of the Sixteenth Continental Congress [by Mrs. Albert C. Gaw].

Corporate Author: Daughters of the American Revolution.

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: [G.C. Howard, printer],

Date of Publication: 1908.

Physical Description: x, 132, 961 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Societies, etc.

Additional Author: Gaw, Anna Spears.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 369.13 D235

The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America

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Author: Fiske, John,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Call Number: 973.22 F541

Responsibility: by John Fiske. Illustrated with portraits, maps, facsimiles, contemporary views, prints, and other historic materials...

Author: Fiske, John,

Place of Publication: Boston and New York

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Physical Description: 2 v. fronts., illus., plates (part. double; incl. ports., maps, facsims.) 24 cm.

Notes: "Illustrated edition."; The facsimiles include reproductions of title-pages.

Subjects: Dutch - United States; Quakers - United States; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; New York (State) - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Middle Atlantic States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.22 F541

Cullings from the literature of the American Revolution

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Author: Mahon, Irwin.

Date of Publication: 1907.

Call Number: 974.843 C969m v. 2

Responsibility: By Irwin Mahon.

Author: Mahon, Irwin.

Place of Publication: [Carlisle, Pa]

Date of Publication: 1907.

Physical Description: 71 p.

Notes: Delivered before the Historical Meeting of the Hamilton Library Association, on Friday evening, October 18th, 1907.; Reprinted from the Shippensburg News.

Subjects: United States - History - Revolution, 1775 - 1783 - Literature of the war.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.843 C969m v. 2

Tagebuch des Capt. Wiederholdt : vom 7 October 1776 bis 7 December 1780

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Author: Wiederholdt, Andrew

Date of Publication: ca1902.

Call Number: 973.342 W643

Responsibility: by M. D. Learned and C. Grosse.

Author: Wiederholdt, Andrew

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Macmillan Company ,

Date of Publication: ca1902.

Physical Description: 74 p. ; 27 cm.

Notes: In Americana Germanic [v.5], p. xvii 19-93.; References to Lancaster are referred to in LCHS Journal, v. 33, no. 5, p. 65 "Captain Wiederholdt in Lancaster" by William Frederick Worner.

Subjects: Wiederholdt, Andreas, - 1752?; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.342 W643

The Hessians

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Author: Clark, Martha Bladen.

Date of Publication: 1900

: Book Subject(s): Hessians--United States. Hessians--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 --Participation, German. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century--German mercenaries. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1899-1900 Description

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Responsibility: by Miss Martha B. Clark

Author: Clark, Martha Bladen.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1900

Physical Description: [119]-137 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 4, no. 5/6

Summary: A number of stories and details about the German soldiers used by the British in the American Revolution - including where they came from , their service , and their imprisonment as captured soldiers.

Subjects: Hessians - United States.; Hessians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.; Lancaster (Pa.) - History - 18th century - German mercenaries.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 4, number 5/6 (1900), p. 119-137Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.4

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Captain Gustavus Conyngham; a sketch of the services he rendered to the cause of American independence

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Author: Jones, Charles Henry,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Call Number: 923.5 J76

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Responsibility: by Charles Henry Jones.

Author: Jones, Charles Henry,

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia]

Publisher: The Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the revolution,

Date of Publication: 1903.

Physical Description: 32 pages frontispiece, plates (some color) portraits 26 cm

Subjects: Conyngham, Gustavus, - 1744?-1819.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Naval operations.; United States.; History.

Additional Corporate Author: Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 J76

Websites

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00118009824

The Pennsylvania-German in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

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Author: Richards, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg.

Date of Publication: 1908.

Call Number: 905.748 PG v.17 (1908)

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Responsibility: by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards.

Author: Richards, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg.

Date of Publication: 1908.

Physical Description: P.59+

Notes: In: Pennsylvania German Society, v.17, 1908.; Part of series: Penna.: The German influence in its settlement and development, part 18.

Contents: Ch 1. The pioneer exponents of liberty - ch 2. The first defenders of the revolution ch 3. The rescuers of the Declaration of Independence -- ch 4. The preservers of the new-born nation -- ch 5. The prison ships -- ch 6. The Pennsylvania-German continentals -- ch 7. The Pennsylvania line -- ch 8. The Pennsylvania regiments -- ch 9. The German regiment -- ch 10. Roster of the German regiment -- ch 11. The Pennsylvania-German emergency men -- ch 12. Philadelphia, Lancaster, Berks, Northampton and York counties -- ch 13. On the frontiers against the Indians -- ch 14. Our non-combatant patriots -- ch 15. Some Pennsylvania-Germans in military service -- ch 16. Some of our patriots in public life -- ch 17. Washington's storehouse and supply depot -- ch 18. A place of safe keeping and a refuge.

Subjects: Germans - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PG v.17 (1908)

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Journals of the Continental Congress

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17672

Websites

A national register of the society, Sons of the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2649

Directory of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18549

The Dutch and Quaker colonies in America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo682

Cullings from the literature of the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18206

Tagebuch des Capt. Wiederholdt : vom 7 October 1776 bis 7 December 1780

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10301

The Hessians

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4421

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Captain Gustavus Conyngham; a sketch of the services he rendered to the cause of American independence

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19635

Websites

The Pennsylvania-German in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14943

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