Document
Document Metadata
Document Group
Document Date
1777-01
Title
Return of the state and condition of the Independent Company of Light Infantry, Providence, under Colonel John Mathewson, January 1777
Description
Later copy of small bound volume [B3 F66 Item 2] containing a return of the equipment of the Light Infantry Company listing the men's names, rank and number of hangers, guns, bayonetts, cartridge boxes, rammers, blankets, knapsacks. Following the return of equipment is a return of the company, listing the absent men's names and their whereabouts: In the Train of Artillery; In the Continental Army; Sick of the Small Pox; Abroad; At Sea; Out of this State; A prisoner at Antigua; In the Service of the State, etc.
Document Year(s)
1777
Document Month
01
Notes
Not indexed
Document Type
Regiment and Company Information
Company Officer
Capt. Allen Peck
Company Officer Rank
Capt
Regiment Officer
Col. John Mathewson
Regiment Officer Rank
Col
Regiment Name
Catalog Information
Call Number
MSS 673 Sub-group 2 Series 5 Sub-series F Box 3 Folder 66
Series Number
5
Series Name
Rhode Island Independent Companies
Sub-Series
F
Sub-Series Name
Independent Company of Light Infantry / Providence Light Infantry Company
Box Number
3
Folder Number
66
Item Identifier
698
Previous Citations
Old Call Number
RIMP Vol. 2 p. 111 No. 268
Old item #
268
Old RIMP vol #
none
Old RIMP pg #
none