<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>United States, South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston, 32.77657, -79.93092</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810</dc:creator><dc:date>1780/1795</dc:date><dc: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 &amp;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 &amp;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.</dc:description><dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Charleston (S.C.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783</dc:subject><dc:subject>Indians of North America--Government relations</dc:subject><dc:subject>Religious life</dc:subject><dc:subject>Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787</dc:subject><dc:title>Benjamin Lincoln notebook and order book</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>