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Title: Extract of a letter from an officer of distinction in the American army ... particulars of the horrid depredations committed by that part of the British army, which was stationed at ... Pennytown, under the command of Lord Cornwallis.; 7. Extract of a letter from an officer of distinction in the American army ... particulars of the horrid depredations committed by that part of the British army, which was stationed at ... Pennytown, under the command of Lord Cornwallis
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7104
Description: Extract of a letter by an anonymous American officer describing what is happening to the populace during Lord Cornwallis' campaign. The letter writer describes disturbing scenes, especially focusing on acts against women and children and property destruction. He also emphasizes that the British Army does not care about whether the person is a loyalist or a patriot, using the burning down of Loyalist Daniel Cox's house as an example.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Media; Mobilizing the Populace; Broadsides; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Destruction and pillage; American loyalists; Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805; Great Britain. Army; United States. Continental Army
Date: 1776; 2022

Title: Thompson, William to the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 1777 January 12; No. 1357 William Thompson to the Pennsylvania Council of Safety
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:973
Description: Requests that they recommend an officer to General Washington for a commission in one of the new regiments.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Thompson, Williamet al
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Recruiting and enlistment; Washington, George, 1732-1799; United States. Continental Army
Date: 1777-01-12; 2021

Title: Washington, George to the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 1776 December 18; No. 1541 George Washington to the Pennsylvania Council of Safety
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:925
Description: Requests that John Vandyke, "a most dangerous and inimical person" who was captured in New Jersey and escaped several times, be kept at Philadelphia, and suggests that the latter be exchanged for a patriot prisoner.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Washington, George, 1732-1799et al
Subject: Waging the War; Politics and Causes of Revolution; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons; Escaped prisoners of war; Van Dyke, John, 1747-1811
Date: 1776-12-18; 2021

Title: Buchanan, Matthew to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, 1776 March 12; No. 130 Matthew Buchanan to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:677
Description: Petition by one "bred to the Sea Service" for appointment as a lieutenant "to attend the Fire Rafts, or to serve in the Floating Battery"; includes his record of maritime experience.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Buchanan, Matthewet al
Subject: Waging the War; Lived Experience; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations, American; United States. Navy--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Date: 1776-03-12; 2021

Title: In Council of safety. Philadelphia, October 14, 1776. Congress has received intelligence from General Lee that the Hessians have embarked from Staten-Island ... have your battalion in perfect readiness to march at the shortest warning ...; 6. Pennsylvania. Council of Safety.In Council of safety : Philadelphia, October 14, 1776 ... Hessians have embarked from Staten-Island ... have your battalion in perfect readiness to march at the shortest warning
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7146
Description: A broadside announcing the arrival of Hessians who have embarked on Staten Island. The Council of Safety urges readiness and assures the public that they will provide "provisions and accommodations". "The defence of our Country depends on the Spirit of its Inhabitants; and we firmly rely on their Virtue and Patriotism for the Support of that Freedom which we have a Right to enjoy, and which we are bound to transmit unimpaired to Posterity."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Media; Mobilizing the Populace; Broadsides; United States -- History -- Revolution; Hessians; Lee, Charles, 1731-1782; United States. Continental Congress; Pennsylvania. Committee of Safety
Date: 1776-10-14; 2022