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Title: William Heath to John Burgoyne; No. 135 William Heath to John Burgoyne
Identifier(s): text:321023
Description: Informs him that accounts will be examined, that Heath will not unnecessarily delay his departure, and that a vessel may be procured to carry a captain to Halifax, [N.S.].; Copy
Creator: Heath, William, 1737-1814et al
Subject: Heath, William, 1737-1814; Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792
Date: 1778-03-28; 2021

Title: United States, Continental Army, Gen. William Heath's Division; No. 1043 United States, Continental Army, Gen. William Heath's Division
Identifier(s): text:353166
Description: Orderly book that records division, brigade, and regimental orders; includes names of senior and junior officers and references to a court of inquiry, courts-martial, punishments, military operations, troop assignments and deployment, and regulation of the camp.; Disbound; fragment; see also no. 1435.
Subject: United States. Continental Army; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Orderly books; Heath, William, 1737-1814
Date: 1776-10; 2023

Title: Huntington, Jedediah to Jabez Huntington, 1776 December 11, 28; No. 597 Jedediah Huntington to Jabez Huntington
Identifier(s): text:348954
Description: Mentions being "still buryed among the Mountains"; mentions that General Washington is pursuing the enemy and that Gen. [Charles] Lee is at Morristown, [N.J.]; gives instructions about money; comments that although the situation is disagreeable in some respects, "a Sense of Duty Retains me in the Service"; informs him that Jedediah Huntington has been advised to quit the service and that when the enlistment of the troops at Peekskill expires, he will be without a command; informs him that Gen. [William] Heath and the troops from Massachusetts and Connecticut will join General Washington, who is in the vicinity of Trenton, [N.J.]; expresses surprise that the Southern colonies cannot furnish sufficient militia in the present emergency; informs him that Gen. [Sir William] Howe and part of the enemy troops have returned to New York.
Creator: Huntington, Jedediah, 1743-1818et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Huntington, Jabez, 1719-1786; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Lee, Charles, 1731-1782; Heath, William, 1737-1814; Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814
Date: 1776 December 11, 28; 2022

Title: Marble, Henry to Luke Drury, 1782 January 22; No. 879 Henry Marble to Luke Drury
Identifier(s): text:353716
Description: Informs him that Gen. [Alexander] McDougall was arrested by Gen. [William] Heath and is a candidate for general court-martial; informs him that thirty prisoners escaped from the "New Stone provost" and that the commander of the guard was arrested, tried, and reprimanded in general orders; mentions that they still have no money; informs him that provisions are now issued under a new system and that West Point is supplied by Comfort Sands and Company and describes a ration of provisions; mentions that all the troops who have not had smallpox are to be inoculated immediately.
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Armies--Commissariat; Smallpox; Inoculation; McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786; Heath, William, 1737-1814; Sands, Comfort, 1748-1834
Date: 1782-01-22; 2023