- Title:
- Benjamin Lincoln notebook and order book
- Creator:
- Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810
- Date of Original:
- 1780/1795
- Subject:
- Charleston (S.C.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Indians of North America--Government relations
Religious life
Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787 - People:
- Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
United States, South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston, 32.77657, -79.93092 - Medium:
- orders (military records)
essays - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The collection consists of a notebook and order book of Benjamin Lincoln. The notebook contains essays composed by Lincoln from 1780-1795. Essay titles include: "State of Matters Relative to the Defense and Loss of Charlestown;" "Rise, Progress and Suppression of the Massachusetts Rebellion;" Causes of the Failure of the Mission to the Hostile Indians;" "Invalidity of the Claims of the Indians to the Grounds on Which They Hunt;" "Observations on the Climate &C. of the Eastern Counties;" "On the Religious State of the Eastern Counties;" "On the Migration of Fishes;" "Observations Founded on a Letter to Judge Lowell on the Idea that Worms in the Vegetables and Animal Bodies Were the Consequences and Not the Cause of Corruption;" and "Why the Indian Tribes Decrease &C." The order book contains orders written by General Benjamin Lincoln from 1779-1780. Orders mainly concern general military administration and the discipline of troops. Of particular interest are orders pertaining to marches or sieges at Augusta, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_0787
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
-
