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Criticism of Mecklenburg voters for their actions in the election of Nov. 1776.

Monthly returns of troops in Charles Harden's company at Fort Lyttleton, February 4, 1777. Two undated items: notes about exercising the troops and new recruits

Papers include originals and typed transcripts of letters to Benjamin Franklin and others in Paris, to Joseph Hewes, and to A. Livingston. Also includes a 1776 list of U.S. Navy captains, his "A Plan for Regulation & Equipment of the Navy" (1777),…

A ledger of cash owed to Pickens for various food deliveries

The collection includes numerous letters between James Ladson Gibbes and his father, John Gibbes, while he was studying at Princeton. Other letters include a note dated 1865 from Alex Hamilton Jr of New York addressed to Mr. Gibbes about supporting…

Letters from John Rutledge, President of South Carolina, to the state delegates in the Congress of Philadelphia. Topics include the fall of Charleston, Thomas Sumter's victory at Hanging Rock, patriot and British troop strengths in South Carolina,…

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.

Contains military records written by Captain Barnard Elliott of the Second Regiment of South Carolina troops

Contains military records written by Captain Barnard Elliott of the Second Regiment of South Carolina troops

Contains military records written by Captain Barnard Elliott of the Second Regiment of South Carolina troops