Continental Army orderly book kept by Capt. Ebenezer Smith of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment, March-November 1783 at Newburgh and West Point, N.Y

Continental Army orderly book kept by Capt. Ebenezer Smith of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment, March-November 1783 at Newburgh and West Point, N.Y

New York, 1783.

ca. 105 p. ; 15 x 19 cm.

MSS L2011F114 M [Bound]

(OCoLC)747984412

Includes regimental orders concern the "stipulated price for Taylors, Shoemakers, Barbers & Wash Women" dated March 6, 1783; grievances of the officers, known as the "Newburgh Addresses"; transcript of Washington's address to the officers, the letter from a member of Congress; Henry Knox's resolution that the officers remain devoted to the cause of liberty for which they had paid "the Price of their Blood and eight years of service"; announcement of the General Peace & full transcript of the Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati; "General Washington's Fairwell [sic] orders to the Armies of the United States," November 2, 1783; account of his taking leave of the 2nd and 3rd Massachusetts Regiments of at West Point before leaving to take command of New York City in November 1783.
Kept by Ebenezer Smith (1746-1816), who was a private during the Lexington alarm & promoted to captain in the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment. He was also Mason & there is a poem about Masonic procession in this volume. Smith became an original member of the Massachsuetts Society of the Cincinnati
Bound in calf backed pastepaper boards.
Digitized version available, see URL.

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