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Title: Certificate of the unfitness of Nathan Sellers to serve in the army, 1778 September 30; Mathews, Boaz. Certificate of the unfitness of Nathan Sellers to serve in the army
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:9161
Description: Boaz Matthews certifies that Nathan Sellers is ill with an "uncommon hard fitt of the Flux and fever, in which his life was a long while despaired of and from the Danger of which he was but just recovered." Matthews writes that Sellers is incapable of military duty due to this illness.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; Military discharge; Soldiers--Health and hygiene; Soldiers--Pennsylvania--History--18th century
Date: 1778-09-30; 2022

Title: Three Tlingit Songs
Identifier(s): audio:6949; APSdigrec_1060; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 04
Description: "(a) Song composed by Sarah Williams about a white soldier who was stationed in Yakutat during the war, and believed killed in the Aleutians. (b and c) Two songs in English, composed by school girls in Sitka."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Soldiers--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-10

Title: Soldier
Identifier(s): graphics:313; APSimg5795
Description: Peale #225b.
Creator: Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885
Source: Titian Ramsay Peale Sketches (Mss.B.P31.15d);
Subject: Natural history; Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885; Soldiers
Date: [June 1831]

Title: Pass to Nathan Sellers to return home, 1778 May 2; Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814. Pass to Nathan Sellers to return home
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8293
Description: A pass written by Elbridge Gerry for Nathan Sellers to return to Darby from Yorktown.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; Military passes; Soldiers--Pennsylvania--History--18th century; Military discharge
Date: 1778-05-02; 2022

Title: Petition and orders related to the return of a horse to Nathan Sellers, 1778; Sellers, Nathan, 1751-1830. Petition to General Greene for the return of a mare; Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804. Order to return mare to N.Sellers; Forsyth, Robert. Order to Lutterlok to return mare to N. Sellers; Lutterlok. Order to Williams to return mare to N. Sellers
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8821
Description: A document that includes multiple notes about the return of a horse (mare) to Nathan Sellers. On the recto, a petition by Nathan Sellers to return a horse taken for him for use by the army. Sellers claims that the mare is pregnant and not fit for service. General Greene agreed and ordered the horse returned as did Lutterlock, Williams, and Hamilton.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; Soldiers--Pennsylvania--History--18th century
Date: 1778-02-23;1778-04-19;1778-04; 2022

Title: Richard Peters pass to Nathan Sellers to return home 1778 May 3; Peters, Richard, 1743-1828. Pass to Nathan Sellers to return home
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8952
Description: A pass written by Richard Peters for Nathan Sellers to return to "his Father John Seller's in Derby Township."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; Military passes; Soldiers--Pennsylvania--History--18th century; Military discharge
Date: 1778-05-03; 2022

Title: A night assault against a soldiers' camp foiled by an unseen negro guard
Identifier(s): audio:7215; APSdigrec_0960; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 21
Description: Text given in Winnebago only, with an English introduction by the collector.; Recording contains a continuous background hum. Copy made by Gerd Fraenkel of an original tape held at the Archives of Languages of the World, Indiana University. This program is the original tape's program 527.7.
Source: Fraenkel, Gerd. Winnebago texts, [1959]. (Mss.Rec.29);
Subject: Winnebago language--Texts; Winnebago Indians--History; Winnebago Indians--Wars; African-American soldiers
Date: 1959-07-12

Title: Paine, Thomas to Dr. Samuel Adams, 1783 February 12; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. ALS to Dr. Samuel Adams
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:12714
Description: Letter from Thomas Paine to Samuel Adams that discusses medicine.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; United States--Politics and government--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Soldiers--Health and hygiene; Medicine--United States--History--18th century; Soldiers--Medical care--United States; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Adams, Samuel, 1745-1819
Date: 1783-02-12; 2022

Title: Paine, Thomas to Dr. Samuel Adams, 1782 May 3; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. ALS to Dr. Samuel Adams
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:12604
Description: Letter from Thomas Paine to Samuel Adams. Mentions a violent fever.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; United States--Politics and government--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Soldiers--Health and hygiene; Soldiers--Medical care--United States; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Adams, Samuel, 1745-1819
Date: 1782-05-03; 2022

Title: Shippen, Edward to Ensign Feltman, 1776 August 19; Shippen, Edward, ca. 1703-1781. Letter to Ensign Feltman
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:9164
Description: Letter from Edward Shippen to Ensign William Feltman. The short note describes personal matters and Shippen's desire that Feltman remain safe as a soldier.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; Pennsylvania--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Soldiers--Pennsylvania--History--18th century; Burd, Edward, 1751-1833
Date: 1776-08-19; 2022

Title: Huntington, Jedediah to Andrew Huntington, 1776 August 6; No. 585 Jedediah Huntington to Andrew Huntington
Identifier(s): text:349002
Description: Informs him that the Americans are sinking a chevaux de frise in the "North" [Hudson] River opposite their fort at Kings Bridge, [N.Y.] in order to prevent passage of British vessels; mentions that fire ships are being prepared but remarks that their success depends on many contingencies; informs him that the British fleet now consists of between 150-200 vessels and mentions that Hessian troops and troops from Halifax, [N.S.] have arrived; informs him that new levies from New England and from the Southern colonies are arriving daily and estimates that the Americans' strength is at least double that of the enemy; expresses interest in obtaining a share in a privateer; [postscript]: informs him that John Trumbull wrote from Ticonderoga, [N.Y.] on 26 July that "they begin to be in a hopeful Way."
Creator: Huntington, Jedediah, 1743-1818et al
Subject: Hessian soldiers in the American Revolution; Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.); Privateering; Huntington, Andrew, 1745-1824; Trumbull, Jonathan, 1710-1785
Date: 1776-08-06; 2022

Title: New York, State of Act and Resolution
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:24232
Description: An act to amend an act for regulating impresses of forage and carriages, and for billeting troops within the State of New York.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Political Philosophy; Waging the War; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; Soldiers--Billeting; Impressment
Date: 1779; 2022

Title: Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene, 1779 November 24; Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:21156
Description: Letter from Udny Hay to Nathanael Greene. Has just been informed that the wife of his old colonel (Colonel Hayen) is on the road to the Jerseys. Requests General Greene to ask any of the gentlemen with him to procure quarters for her in the vicinity of the place where the colonel's regiment will be stationed.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; Family life--18th century; Soldiers--Family relationships--United States; Military camps; Quartermasters; Hay, Udny; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-11-24; 2022

Title: Miles, Catherine to David Rittenhouse, 1776 December 15
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:555
Description: Letter from Catherine Miles to David Rittenhouse asking if he can protect her new house in Philadelphia from "the use of the Soldiery."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women; Soldiers--Pennsylvania--History--18th century; Miles, Samuel, 1740-1805
Date: 1776-12-15; 2021

Title: Brown, William to Nathanael Greene, 1779 June 27; Brown, William from Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20264
Description: Letter from William Brown to Nathanael Greene. Smith's Clove - Orders from Gov. Livingston and General Washington to remove the sick out of the barns of the inhabitants of New Jersey and to apply to Colonel Berry to provide them with quarters in the barracks and public buildings in Pluckemin. These accommodations very inconvenient and improper for the purpose, but necessity compels him in the future.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Soldiers--Wounds and injuries--United States; Soldiers--Health and hygiene; Barracks; Quartermasters; Brown, William; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-06-27; 2022

Title: Unknown author to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 19; Binney, ----- to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20083
Description: Letter from Nathanael Greene to an unknown recipient. Has made an estimate of the number of buildings needed for the sick, and finds that three large barns will be necessary, as near Somerset Court-house as possible. On verso Camp, Middlebrook - Agreeable to instructions and the foregoing estimate, has taken up three barns belonging to Ernestus Harlingen, Esq., and Messrs. Duryee and Vandoran.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Soldiers--Wounds and injuries--United States; Soldiers--Health and hygiene; Quartermasters; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-19; 2022

Title: Unknown author to Nathanael Greene, 1779 May 18; Binney, ----- to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20060
Description: Letter from Nathanael Greene to an unknown recipient. Somerset Court-house - The two churches and court-houses, of which they have legal possession, being crowded to a degree dangerous to the health of the wounded, has applied to the magistrates for the neighboring barns to accommodate the convalescents. In answer, they threaten to imprison the first who shall "prostitute a barn to the use of sick soldiers." What's to be done?; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Soldiers--Wounds and injuries--United States; Soldiers--Health and hygiene; Quartermasters; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-05-18; 2022

Title: Brown, William to Nathanael Greene, 1779 October 2; Brown, William from Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20122
Description: Letter from William Brown to Nathanael Greene. General Hospital, Otterhill - Asking for a horse for the Bearer, Mr. Scott, who is Commissary for the hospital and is obliged to ride about the neighborhood a good deal.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Soldiers--Wounds and injuries--United States; Soldiers--Health and hygiene; Quartermasters; Brown, William; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1779-10-02; 2022

Title: Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene, 1780 February 6; Hay, Udny to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:20917
Description: Letter from Udny Hay to Nathanael Greene. Congratulating him on the latest addition to his family. Recalling the bearer, Hawkes Hay, to his memory, his many virtues and his need of employment.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; War and families--United States--History--18th century; Soldiers--Family relationships--United States; Social networks--18th century; Quartermasters; Hay, Udny; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: 1780-02-06; 2022

Title: Page, Mann, Jr. to George Weedon, 1777 April 22
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:1598
Description: Letter from Mann Page, Jr. to General Weedon, including a note about smallpox inoculation.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Soldiers--Pennsylvania--History--18th century; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778; Smallpox; Vaccination; Inoculation (Founding); Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804
Date: 1777-04-22; 2021