Vertical file collection on military and naval activities

Scope and Contents Contains assorted financial records generated during the Revolutionary War, dated 1776-1779, including a receipt to mariner Jacob Wildes (1726-1822) of Arundel (now Kennebunkport), Maine from Noah Cluff for serving as a substitute for Wildes’ son in the Continental Army; schedule of losses, or “an account of the loss I sustain’d while the British troops were in Boston in the year 1775” by an unknown merchant, including a “negro man they cary’d away”, steps to his stores, and his boat; a bill...

Scope and Contents Includes a 1781 bond between Benjamin Hill, master of the sloop Abigail, and Nathan Miller, her owners, both of Rhode Island, with United States Treasurer Michael Hilligas, commissioning her as a privateer. Other owners of the eight-gun vessel were Samuel Broome and Lebanon Bradford. Also contains undated signaling instructions for American ships, and a copy of an agreement regarding rations of daily subsistence to be issued to American and British prisoners of war. There is additionally a...

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Correspondence, bills, and other papers of Jonathan Faulknor (-1795), a Royal Navy officer, dated 1754-1759. Included is a letter regarding his deployment on the HMS Albany in 1755.