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"Copied from a paper found among Aunt Anna's papers and presented to Daniel Strobel Martin, grandson of the author [John Peter Martin]" Signed Mary E. Strobel.

Gives ranks of officers, including Roberts, Barnard Elliott, Beekman, Harden, Grimke, Porteaux, Drayton.

Includes pay schedules and appointments (p. 3-5+), court martials, muster roll of 3rd Regiment South Carolina Continental Troops (p. 12-13), and medical advice (p. 52-53).

This transcription presumed to be made from a copy owned by the Colonial…

Handwritten transcript of the appointments and first communication of the Board of War on June 12 and 21, 1776. Appointment of John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Harrison, James Wilson, and Edward Rutledge to the Board of War.

Review of the artillery regiment.

Includes promotions, oath and instructions for its administration, and rations. Dated October 29, 1776.

Court martial roster for Fort Johnson, dated August 12, 1776. Lists captains and lieutenants. Beckman, Drayton, Grimke and 12 others listed.

Gives districts from which members were elected.

Resolutions of the Legislature issued in the General Orders on October 22, 1776.

Four letters to Lt. Col. Barnard Elliott between 1776 and 1777, regarding Revolutionary War. Also monthly return of artillery regiment that gives ranks of officers, dated November 1777.