Title Information
Title
[Orderly book kept in Newport and Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1780]
Name: Personal
Name Part
Thayer, Simeon
Name Part: Date
1738-1800
Name: Personal
Name Part
Brown, John Nicholas
Name Part: Date
1900-1979
Role
Role Term: Code (marcrelator)
fmo
Type of Resource (manuscript="yes")
text
Origin Information
Place
Place Term: Code (MARC Country Code)
riu
Place
Place Term: Text
Newport or Portsmouth, R.I
Publisher
s.n
Date Created
1780]
Date Created (encoding="marc")
1780
Issuance
monographic
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Physical Description
Form (marcform)
print
Extent
[18] p. ; 21 cm. (4to)
Note
Ms. codex.
Note
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Note
Signed at foot of p. [15]: Samuel Reed his book of Abington March ye 3 1781 Sa.; other names listed in entries in the book are: Jo. Jacobs or J. Jacobs, and Simeon Thayer.
Note
Entries are dated from either Camp Butts Hill [now part of Portsmouth, Rhode Island] or Headquarters Newport dated from Aug. 30, 1780 to Oct. 9, 1780.
Note
Orderly Books were the controlling document of the day-to-day life in the military, most notably during the Revolutionary War. They contain handwritten military orders, movements and engagements by brigade, regiment, company and other specific military units. Provides detailed accounts of troops' daily lives, documenting everything from court martial cases to the price of necessities charged by locals.
Subject
Geographic Code (MARC Geographic Area Code)
n-us-ri
Subject (LCSH)
Name: Corporate
Name Part
United States.
Name Part
Continental Army.
Subject
Topic
Manuscripts
Topic
English
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
United States
Topic
History
Temporal
Revolution, 1775-1783
Topic
American forces
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic
Rhode Island
Topic
History
Temporal
Revolution, 1775-1783
Subject
Topic
Imprint 1780.
Subject
hierarchicalGeographic
country
United States
state
Rhode Island
city
Newport
Subject
hierarchicalGeographic
country
United States
state
Rhode Island
city
Portsmouth
Identifier: oclc
872280581
Record Information
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aacr
descriptionStandard
dcrmb
Record Content Source (marcorg)
RIBRL
Record Creation Date (encoding="marc")
140311
Record Change Date (encoding="iso8601")
20140311042841.0
Record Identifier (source="OCoLC")
ocn872280581
Origin of Record
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