Box MSS VF 38
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Financial papers, Revolutionary War, 1776-1779 Digital
FOUND IN:
Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
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Collection:
Vertical file collection on military and naval activities
Item — Box: MSS VF 38, Folder: 18Identifier: Mss:912 1754-1866
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...