One source of revenue was the seizure and sale of estates belonging to Loyalists. Assembly members in Kent and Sussex Counties (scholars notes), 1776, 2. Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War. During September and October, the British occupied Wilmington. . On 25 October 1776, the roughly 280 men still fit for duty in the regiment took part in the battle of White Plains. (Original painting in Delaware Public Archives.). George Washington and Don Quixote George Washington's Withholding Tax Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1935. Delaware troops were present here as well. It must be used in a business or income-producing activity. A Distinguished Son of Chester County, Bulletins of the Chester County Historical Society, 1902-03. Treasury Office. He purchased a Captains commission and continued in the war until he was injured in an assault on Fort Ticonderoga. The trial of suspects in the burning of the British revenue schooner Gaspee is the topic of correspondence from January and April 1773, and an October 1773 letter from Charles Thompson deals with the separation of powers in government. WebTo make amends for such depreciation, each of these men who in 1781 yet remained in line service was awarded a substantial sum in Depreciation Pay Certificates, which were from the report of Secretary of War . Drake, Edward. Philadelphia: L. J. Richards & Company, 1888. Coughlan, Margaret N. Creating Independence, 1763-1789: Background Reading for Children. 10. Lee, expecting the Americans to lose, based on the information he had given Howe, turned the position down, so Washington put theMarquis de Lafayettein charge. Clark, Raymond B., Jr. Maryland Revolutionary Records: How to Find and Interpret Them. John Booker, Virginia troops (Buckner Regiment), 1776, 10. The Delaware Blues, as the regiment was sometimes known, some 750 soldiers, took part in the campaign for New York in the summer of 1776. In May 1772, even though his military career was currently inactive, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. . Newman, Harry Wright. BY JACOB DOLSON COX, A.M., LL.D. Additionally, to encourage soldiers to reenlist at the end of their initial term of service, Resolves 1779-80, c 371 (Oct. 1, 1779) promised bounties and prompt pay adjustments to those who reenlisted, appointing a committee (thereafter usually called the Committee to Settle with the Army) to revise amounts owed up to Jan. 1, 1780, for those officers and soldiers who were part of the state's quota of the Continental Army. Clark, Murtie June.
