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Title: Gates, Horatio to Richard Peters, 1783 February 20; No. 366 Horatio Gates to Richard Peters
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:860
Description: Mentions that Gates's command, which consists of fifteen regiments, gives very little trouble; remarks: "The political pot in Philadelphia Boils so furiously that ... as a Stranger rides through the Town, They Cry Scaldings ; what a Blessed Prospect we Republicans have before us!"; postscript: "The Financier [Robert Morris] has the prayers of the Army"; includes a four stanza poem by Gates "On The Prospect of Peace."; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806et al
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Morris, Robert, 1734-1806; United States. Congress; United States. Continental Army
Date: 1783-02-20; 2020

Title: Memorandum of articles wanted; Unidentified Memorandum
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:24429
Description: Memorandum of articles wanted in the Northern department.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; Memorandums; Quartermasters; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance
Date: 1779; 2022

Title: General account of horses, 1779-05-03; Unidentified Account
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:23767
Description: General account of horses from April 25 to May 3, 1779.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; Quartermasters; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; Horses
Date: 1779-04-25; 2022

Title: Vandewall, Markes to George Gray, 1779 April 2; Vandewall, Markes to George Gray
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:22967
Description: Letter from Markes Vandewall to George Gray. Order to send him by bearer fifty ten-penny nails.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; Quartermasters; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives; Finance, Personal--United States; Vandewall, Markes; Gray, George
Date: 1779-04-02; 2022

Title: Adams, Dr. Samuel to Sally Preston Adams, 1778 August 5; No. 29 Dr. Samuel Adams to Sally Preston Adams
Identifier(s): text:346204
Description: Friendly letter; mentions that he will soon go to camp at White Plains, [N.Y.] where he hopes to receive wages; mentions the "unparalleled barbarity and worse than Diabolical behavior of the Tories & Savages at Wyoming [Pa.]"; mentions "the Fruitless attempt of George's Commissioners" [the Carlisle peace commission] to bribe several members of Congress and remarks that it appears the British despair of conquering America by arms; mentions troops that moved from White Plains to Rhode Island and a report that the French fleet also went there; describes the High Dutch of Pennsylvania and mentions that "the women do most of the hard work"; informs her that he is now among a "clever" sort of people but still misses New England.
Subject: Diplomacy; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Pennsylvania Dutch
Date: 1778-08-05; 2022

Title: Washington, George to William Alexander, Lord Stirling, 1777 July 30; No. 2442 George Washington to William Alexander, Lord Stirling
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:693
Description: Orders him to move to Philadelphia with all the troops at Trenton, [N.J.] as soon as Gen. [Horatio] Gates informs Stirling when the British fleet arrives in Delaware Bay.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Washington, George, 1732-1799et al
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations, British; Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806; United States. Continental Army
Date: 1777-07-30; 2021

Title: Greene, Nathanael to Henry Hollingsworth, 1780 January 29; No. 427 Nathanael Greene to Henry Hollingsworth
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:765
Description: Comments on the measures adopted by Congress for procuring supplies for the army; remarks that although it may be desirable to have public agents free from any concerns in trade, if the states prohibit men who are concerned in trade from serving in the Quartermaster department it "will amount to almost a total prohibition of persons of any knowledge in business serving in the department"; urges him to settle accounts up to 1 March [1779]; encloses a copy [not present) of a letter from General Washington regarding discharging all established express riders; informs him that when Greene comes to Philadelphia, he will hear Hollingsworth's explanation about the loud and bitter complaints against the latter.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786et al
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department; United States. Continental Army
Date: 1780-01-29; 2020

Title: Resolution, United States. Congress, 1781 November 02; Congressional Resolutions
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:10568
Description: A resolution from Congress that calculates the amount due from each state. They recommend that certain states use taxes to raise the money.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; Taxation; Taxation--United States--History
Date: 1781-11-02; 2022

Title: General account of horses, 1779-4-09; Unidentified Account
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:24396
Description: General account of horses from March 21 to April 9, 1779.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; Quartermasters; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; Horses
Date: 1779-03-21; 2022

Title: General return form, 1779; Unidentified Form
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:23344
Description: Form for general return.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; Quartermasters; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance
Date: 1779; 2022

Title: Journal of Congress excerpts; No. 626 Journal of Congress excerpts
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:897
Description: Proofs that cite excerpts from the Journal of Congress in order to refute the "ungenerous & groundless charge of their aiming at Independence, or a total Separation from G[reat] Britain."; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Jay, John, 1745-1829et al
Subject: Politics and Causes of Revolution; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Political aspects; United States. Congress
Date: 1775-12-11; 2021

Title: Bond, 1783 June 10
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:15947
Description: Bond of 1000 pounds from Isaac Wilkins to Sarah Morris.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Lived Experience; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic conditions; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; Finance, Personal--United States; Wilkins, Isaac, 1742-1830
Date: 1783-06-10; 2022

Title: In Congress. December 6, 1775. We the Delegates of the Thirteen United Colonies in North America, have taken into our most serious consideration a Proclamation issued from the Court of St. James ...; 75 (OS). United States. Continental Congress.In Congress : December 6, 1775. We the Delegates of the Thirteen United Colonies in North America, have taken into our most serious consideration a Proclamation issued from the Court of St. James ... Extract from the Minutes, Charles Thomson, Secretary
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7011
Description: A broadside that publishes the response from Congress to a proclamation by the King.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Declaring Independence; Broadsides; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes; Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.; United States. Continental Congress
Date: 1775-12-06; 2022

Title: Gore, James Account
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:24006
Description: James Gore's account of his expenses from Morristown to Philadelphia in six days.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Political Philosophy; Quartermasters; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; Finance, Personal--United States; Morristown (N.J.); Gore, James
Date: undated; 2022

Title: Johnston, James to Any Continental Smith, 1779 April 2; Johnston, James to Any Continental Smith
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:21822
Description: Letter from James Johnston. Auditor's Office - Order to shoe his horse.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives; Finance, Personal--United States; Johnston, James
Date: 1779-04-02; 2022

Title: Eyre (Maj.) Memorandum
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:24133
Description: Memorandum of various tools.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Waging the War; Memorandums; Quartermasters; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance
Date: undated; 2022

Title: Plebia to Nathanael Greene, undated; Plebia to Nathanael Greene
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:23031
Description: Letter from Nathanael Greene. Poem by a young lady, signed Plebia, to General Greene, founded on a quotation of Plato's, that "The general of the army .... looks upon himself as an executor of Divine justice by war, but he banishes all private views, false glory, unbridled ambition, barbarous cruelties and unjust exactions."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Poetry; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women; Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department
Date: undated; 2022

Title: Promissory note from Lewis Lewis, 1778 October 9; Promissory note from Lewis Lewis
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:16899
Description: A promissory note signed by Lewis Lewis that assures payment of "the whole amount of the costs of an action" to a Christian King once a bill of cost is produced by a lawyer.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Economy; Promissory notes; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance; Finance, Personal--United States; Finance, Public--United States--History--To 1789
Date: 1778-10-09; 2022

Title: Thompson, William to Robert Morris, 1777 October 16; No. 1359 William Thompson to Robert Morris
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:618
Description: Recommends his nephew George Stevenson, Jr., whose health will not permit him to undergo the fatigue of another winter campaign, as a lieutenant in one of the companies to be raised to guard the stores in Carlisle.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Thompson, Williamet al
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778; United States. Continental Army--Military life; Stevenson, George, Jr.; United States. Continental Army
Date: 1777-10-16; 2021

Title: United States, Continental Army; No. 955 United States, Continental Army
Identifier(s): text:353575
Description: Four morning report forms for a company in a regiment; [on verso]: "Blank Specie Certificates Signed T[imothy] Pickering Q[uarter] M[aster] G[eneral] not numbered."; Printed forms, blank.
Subject: United States. Continental Army; United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Date: undated; 2023