An original record of daily and weekly returns of Captain Thomas Carlile’s Company, of Colonel Robert Elliott’s Rhode Island Regiment of Artillery, covering a period from March 16, 1778 to July 16, 1778, together with some memoranda of occurrences at Pawtuxet, R.I., at a somewhat later date.

Document

Document Metadata

Document Date

1778

Document End Date

1781

Title

An original record of daily and weekly returns of Captain Thomas Carlile's Company, of Colonel Robert Elliott's Rhode Island Regiment of Artillery, covering a period from March 16, 1778 to July 16, 1778, together with some memoranda of occurrences at Pawtuxet, R.I., at a somewhat later date.

Description

On the back of many of the pages of weekly returns are waste book entries for January 1781 through december 1782 for woodworking for himself and his two sons John and Benjamin. They are mainly making furniture, carriages for canon, woodworking for specific ships, all in Providence and mostly for ships and personnel of the war effort.

Document Year(s)

1778-1781

Notes

Not indexed

Document Type

weekly return

Regiment and Company Information

Company Officer

Capt. Thomas Carlile

Company Officer Rank

Capt

Regiment Officer

Col. Robert Elliott

Regiment Officer Rank

Col

Catalog Information

Call Number

MSS 673 Sub-group 2 Series 3 Sub-series F Box 2 Folder 135

Series Number

3

Series Name

Rhode Island State Troops

Sub-Series

F

Sub-Series Name

Regiment of Artillery

Box Number

2

Folder Number

135

Item Identifier

1461

Previous Citations

Old item #

none

Old RIMP vol #

none

Old RIMP pg #

none

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