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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Hazen Wright papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-26-1382
Abstract Correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, study notes, typescripts of articles, genealogies of the Wright family and of Noah Downs, negatives, slides, photographs, clippings, drawings, census reports, maps, New York publications and printed material, transcripts of oral history interviews with Wright, manuscripts of his scientific books, and other material pertaining to his career as a zoologist, university professor, lecturer, and author. Other subjects include the Cornell Natural History...
Dates: 1779-1965.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Albert Hazen Wright papers

Albert Hazen Wright research materials

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1692
Abstract Correspondence, notes, outlines, typewritten and photo copies of newspaper articles, directories, court and census records, clippings, photographic prints and negatives, and other items used in the writing of Wright's histories of the New York State Agricultural College at Ovid, New York, the New York Central College at McGraw, New York, and the People's College at Havana (now Montour Falls) New York, as they pertained to the early history of Cornell University. Also sources pertaining to...
Dates: 1779-1960.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Albert Hazen Wright research materials

Carpenter Wharton correspondence

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 4656
Scope and content

Correspondence with Carpenter Wharton from Henry Hollingsworth, Robert Morris, Joseph Trumbull, George Washington, Jeremiah Wadsworth, John Hancock, Richard Peters, George Clymer, and George Walton and transcriptions of all correspondence.

Dates: 1776-1777.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Carpenter Wharton correspondence

Cataract House register

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 155
Scope and content

Register of the hotel owned by R. Mockford; notice advertising the hotel for sale; folder containing a list of Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Tompkins County; and a poster for "Beech Tree Buggy Riders."

Dates: 1883-1891.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cataract House register

Continental Army roster

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239448]
Identifier: 186m
Scope and content

Autograph list of commissioned officers of the New York line, with rank and regimental affiliation frequently noted; copied from the Balloting Book in the Secretary of State's office, Albany; names arranged in alphabetical order; date and place of death or genealogical data given after certain names; identity of copyist and date of copying (ca.1850?) not stated.

Dates: ca. 1850.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Continental Army roster

Diary of the Sullivan Expedition

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065488433]
Identifier: 3009
Scope and content Diary (May 1777 to December 1779) of a soldier who enlisted in the 1st Company of the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment and who later served in the 9th and 5th Companies. The first section is concerned with the Sullivan Expedition (August to September 1779) through the Finger Lakes Region of New York. Wadleigh journeyed through the southern part of New England, eastern New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania from May 1777 to June 1779, and there are accounts of military engagements, including the...
Dates: 1777-1779.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Diary of the Sullivan Expedition

Francis family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926334]
Identifier: 555
Scope and content Journal (1776) of Colonel Ebeneezer Francis which relates his activities from the time he set out from Cambridge camp and his contacts with General Washington, other patriot officers, and the Continental Congress, describes many New England towns, skirmishes, and ship-movements, repeats army gossip, and tells of a plot by the Mayor of New York to seize General Washington; Francis family letters describing a visit to Harvard College (1787), and discussing the division of family property, the...
Dates: 1776-1798.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Francis family papers

Gail and Stephen Rudin collection of American history miscellany

 Collection
Identifier: 6995
Abstract

Documents related to various events in Unites States history. Includes items related to the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, a Washington, D.C. lottery ticket, and prescriptions for alcohol written during Prohibition.

Dates: circa 1776-1933.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gail and Stephen Rudin collection of American history miscellany

Gee family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4176
Abstract

Papers of the family of Thomas E. Gee, d.1796, who was quartermaster sergeant in Col. John Lamb's regiment of artillery, a detachment from which, commanded by Capt. Wool, was attached to Clinton's brigade during the Sullivan expedition.

Dates: 1777-1973.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gee family papers

George Washington Schuyler papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 923
Scope and content Collection consists largely of genealogical and historical notes, many of which were used by Schuyler in his COLONIAL NEW-YORK. Included are notes, copies of baptismal, marriage, and other certificates, and wills for the Schuyler, Van Cortlandt, Bleeker, Livingston, Cuyler, Wessels, and other families of New Netherlands and the Province of New York, translations by Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer of Dutch manuscripts, a number of copies of papers relating to the dispute between Nicholas Van...
Dates: 1776-1777, 1845-1885.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / George Washington Schuyler papers

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