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Memorandum of sundry transactions from my leaving Rhinebeck in the state of New York till my arrival on board the Hector of 74 guns commanded by Capt. Mories

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Year:
1778
Contributor:
Lawrence, Jonathan, 1737-1812
Subject:
n-us-ny > n-us-ri
Lawrence, Jonathan > 1737-1812
Hamilton, Alexander > 1757-1804
comte d' > Estaing, Charles Henri > 1729-1794
Rhode Island, Battle of, R.I., 1778
Manuscripts > English
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Campaigns
Rhode Island > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
Extent:
[32] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)

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Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from first sentence on p. [5] of manuscript.
Page [32] has annotation: Memorandum Book and is signed Johnathan Lawrence major.
Pages [2-3] contain a handwritten chronology dated from August 23-26, 1778.
Pages [26-31] are blank.
Diary of a refugee from Newton, Long Island, who had settled in Rhinebeck, New York. Lawrence was a ranking major of a militia company. His narrative includes a meeting with Frederick Jay, younger brother of John Jay, with whom he set up the Patriotic Trading Company. On his way to Boston he met with Alexander Hamilton, who was serving as George Washington's aide-de-camp, and was asked to assist the recently arrived squadron commanded by Admiral Charles Henri d'Estaing as a pilot on a voyage from Sandy Hook to Narragansett Bay. This diary covers that voyage, the operation in Narragansett Bay, and d'Estaing's skirmishes with Lord Howe off of Rhode Island. It ends at the author's disembarkation from the ship he piloted under d'Estaing's command.

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"Memorandum of sundry transactions from my leaving Rhinebeck in the state of New York till my arrival on board the Hector of 74 guns commanded by Capt. Mories" (1778). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:579910/

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