Report on the Archives of Rhode Island (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Three boxes on the " Revolutionary war" contain among other papers? Receipt books for wood, 1777-1778; papers of-council of war, 1776-1780; commissions and resignations, 1777; accounts of State with the United States, 1776; pay abstracts, 1777-1780; returns of clothing, 1778; accounts in Connecticut for keeping Rhode Island soldiers, 1777-1778; inquiry into the staff department; accounts against the State, 1775-1783; returns for supplies, 1777-1781; accounts for losses of estates on Rhode Island; papers relating to prisoners of war, 1776; papers relating to Colonel Olney's regiment, 1781-1783. Then follow boxes on miscellaneous subjects, as below: Military returns, 1750-1846. Two boxes. (Contain returns of State militia and independent companies, 1750-1846; adjutant-general's reports, 1810, 1825, 1827.) Mexican boundary commission, J. R. Bartlett. (Contains vouchers for bills paid on account of the commission.) Admiralty and maritime papers. Two boxes. (Contain miscellaneous papers on maritime affairs of the eighteenth century.) Burrillville Bank. Two boxes. (Contain papers and books of the Bur- rillville Bank.) General treasurer's reports. (Contains treasurer's reports and accounts, 1736-1738, 1758,1779-1845; bank returns and abstracts, 1824-1828, 1840; report of sheriff, 1834; returns of justices of the peace, 1824, 1839.) "Miscellaneous." (Contains returns of deputies, 1755-1769; lists of freemen, 1757-1766; certificates of legality to proxies, 1758-1768; citations and summonses, 1741-1742, 1785; accounts of Henry Ward, secretary, 1762-1772; accounts allowed, 1761; petitions, 1822, 1827.) Appeals and petitions for new trials, bonds, and executions. (Contains petitions, 1765, 1766, 1780, 1795, 1796, 1810; accounts relating to pirates, 1738-1739; tolera...