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Marinus Willett Letterbook and
Book of Regimental Orders May-November 1781
Fort Rensselaer and Albany, N.Y.

Related Finding Aid:
Willett Family Papers, 1733-1974
SC16670

Original accession number: 15705

This calendar to the Marinus Willett letterbook and book of regimental orders was created in 1973

Register of Letters (Drafts) | Book of Regimental Orders (opposite side of volume)

Register of Letters (Drafts)

Date Letter addressed to From
n.d. Notes by Willett n.p.
June 20, 1781 Gov. Clinton Fort Rensselaer
June 28, 1781 Gov. Clinton Fort Rensselaer
July 1, 1781 Col. Whemple (?) Fort Rensselaer
June 30, 1781 Sgt. ? Canajoharie
November 2, 1781 Gov. Clinton Fort Rensselaer
July 14, 1781 Gov. Clinton Fort Rensselaer
July 14, 1781 Gov. Clinton Fort Rensselaer
July 14, 1781 Gov. Clinton Fort Rensselaer
July 14, 1781 Major McKinsted (?) Fort Rensselaer
July 14, 1781 Major Villefranch Fort Rensselaer
July 15, 1781 Gov. Clinton Fort Rensselaer
July 13, 1781 Gen’l. Washington Fort Rensselaer
July 17, 1781 Commissioners of Conspiracies In Albany Fort Rensselaer
July 17, 1781 Captain Marshall Fort Rensselaer
July 1781 Col. Henry Livingston et al Albany
July 1781 Captain Harrison (?) et al Albany
July 26, 1781 Gov. Clinton Albany
July 26, 1781 Gov. John Hancock of Mass. Albany
July 26, 1781 Four officers “and the officer and commanding at Fort Rensselaer” Albany
August 1781 Major Throop Albany
n.d. Uncompleted draft of a letter n.p.
August 3, 1781 Major Villefranche Albany
August 6, 1781 Gov. Clinton Albany
August 17, 1781 Gen. Schuyler Fort Rensselaer
August 19, 1781 ? Fort Rensselaer
August 25, 1781 Gen. Stark Fort Rensselaer
August 31, 1781 Major Villefranch [sic] Fort Rensselaer
August 31, 1781 Captain ? Fort Rensselaer
September 2, 1781 ? (uncompleted draft) Fort Rensselaer
September 2, 1781 Gov. Clinton Fort Rensselaer
September 5, 1781 Capt. Hall Fort Rensselaer
September 7, 1781 ? Fort Rensselaer

Book of Regimental Orders (opposite side of volume)

Date/Place Description
n.d. One page memo about horses left at Albany, Barrington, etc.
May 21, 1781/Albany, N.Y. Regimental Orders - listing of officers, etc.
June 21, 1781/Albany, N.Y. Regimental Orders
August 7, 1781/Albany, N.Y. Regimental Orders
August 22, 1781/Albany, N.Y. Garrison Orders - ordering arrest of an officer for disturbing the peace
n.d. Regimental Returns
n.d. “Orders for the Regulation of the Garrison”
July 30, 1781/Albany, N.Y. Regimental Orders
August 21, 1781/Fort Rensselaer, N.Y. Orders
September 5, 1781/Fort Rensselaer, N.Y. Garrison Orders (Evidence against an officer on trial)
October 3, 1781/Fort Rensselaer Order
September 6, 1781/Fort Rensselaer Garrison Order
September 7, 1781/Fort Rensselaer Garrison Order
September 12, 1781/Fort Rensselaer Garrison Order
September 16, 1781/Fort Rensselaer Evidence used in military trial
September 23, 1781/Fort Rensselaer Orders
September 23, 1781/Fort Rensselaer Regimental Orders
September 25, 1781/Fort Rensselaer Garrison Orders
October 1, 1781/Fort Rensselaer General Orders (Court Martial held in Saratoga, September 25, 1781)
October 9, 1781/Fort Rensselaer Garrison Orders
November 2, 1781/Fort Rensselaer Tryon County Orders
n.d. Draft of an order complimenting troops in “turning out to oppose the enemy…”

 

SC16670 Letterbook and Regimental Orders

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