Alfred C. Berol collection of American Revolution documents, 1650-1830

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Alfred C. Berol collection of American Revolution documents



Box 1 Folder 1 Adams, John to Benjamin Rush, 31 August 1809

Kirkland II, no. 90


Box 1 Folder 2 Alexander, William, Earl Stirling to [Samuel Tucker], 02 October 1775

Kirkland II. no. 12


Box 1 Folder 3 Alston, Joesph to Theodosia Burr Alston, 16 June 1802

Kirkland II, no. 86


Box 1 Folder 4 Armstrong, John to James Wilson, 25 July 1775

Kirkland II. no. 11


Box 1 Folder 5 Barry, John to Thomas Barclay, 28 November 1783


Box 1 Folder 6 Biddle, Owen to Philip Schuyler, 17 April 1777

Kirkland II. no. 21


Box 1 Folder 7 Boudinot, Elias to Samuel Bayard, 5 November 1795

Kirkland II. no. 82


Box 1 Folder 8 Boudinot, Elias to Benjamin Rush, 27/28 February 1781


Box 1 Folder 9 Bowdoin, James to Count de la Luzerne, 23 January 1782

Kirkland II. no. 63


Box 1 Folder 10 Bradford, William to Thomas Wharton, 3 October 1777

Kirkland II. no. 25


Box 1 Folder 11 Bull, William to Lord George Germaine, 28 December 1781

Kirkland II. no. 62


Box 1 Folder 12 Burke, Edmund to Garret Nagle, 2 August 1776

Kirkland I. no. 15


Box 1 Folder 13 Burke, Edmund to Lord North, 14 December 1781


Box 1 Folder 14 Burr, Aaron to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 22 October 1779

Kirkland II. no. 46


Box 1 Folder 15 Burr, Aaron to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 27 October 1779

Kirkland II. no. 47


Box 1 Folder 16 Burr, Aaron to Joseph Alston, 4 January 1813

Kirkland II. no. 91


Box 1 Folder 17 Cadwalader, Lambert to Samuel Meredith, 1789

Kirkland II. no. 75


Box 1 Folder 18 Cavendish, John, Lord to William Dowdeswell, 21 May 1774

Kirkland I. no. 7


Box 1 Folder 19 Chew, Benjamin, Jr. to Wilmington, 5 September 1777

Kirkland I. no. 24


Box 1 Folder 20 Church, Benjamin to Selectman of Boston, 10 November 1773

Kirkland I. no. 6


Box 1 Folder 21 Clymer, George to Samuel Meredith, 14 August 1788

Kirkland I. no. 70


Box 1 Folder 22 Clinton, James to Thomas Machin, 8 November 1782

Kirkland II. no. 68


Box 1 Folder 23 Cornwallis, Charles, Lord to Major Wemyss, 7 October 1780

Kirkland I. no. 49


Box 1 Folder 24 Cornwallis, Charles, Lord to Thomas, 25 August 1782


Box 1 Folder 25 Craik, James to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 17 August 1780

Kirkland I. no. 47


Box 1 Folder 26 Deane, Silas to Robert Morris, 1777

Kirkland I. no. 31


Box 1 Folder 27 Decatur, Stephen to William Jones, 8 December 1813


Box 1 Folder 28 Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess to Sarah Siddons, 29 April 1800

Kirkland II. no. 85


Box 1 Folder 29 Dickinson, Philemon to John Hancock, 20 September 1777

Kirkland I. no. 25


Box 1 Folder 30 Eaton, William to James A. Wilkinson, 24 July 1808

Kirkland II. no. 88


Box 1 Folder 31 Ellery, William to Samuel Huntington, 27 June 1784

Kirkland II. no. 72


Box 1 Folder 32 Endecott, John to Nathaniel Duncan, 4 August 1650

Kirkland II. no. 1


Box 1 Folder 33 Estaing, Hean Charles Henri d' to Antoine-Gabriel de Sartine, 9 February 1779

Kirkland II. no. 43


Box 1 Folder 34 FitzSimons, Thomas to Robert Gilmor, 1 May 1779

Kirkland I. no. 45


Box 1 Folder 35 Foxcroft, John to Lord Le Despencer, 7 June 1775

Kirkland II. no. 9


Box 1 Folder 36 Franklin, Benjamin to Jonathan Williams, 30 November 1777

Kirkland I. no. 27


Box 1 Folder 37 Gage, Thomas to William Johnson, 30 June 1765

Kirkland I. no. 4


Box 1 Folder 38 Gates, Horatio to Colonel Wayne, 19 November 1776


Box 1 Folder 39 Gerry, Elbridge, 17 November 1782

Kirkland II. no. 69


Box 1 Folder 40 Gibbs, Caleb to George Washington, 16 October 1789

Kirkland II. no. 76


Box 1 Folder 41 Gist, Mordecai to Mary Gist, 6 September 1778

Kirkland II. no. 39


Box 1 Folder 42 Greene, Christopher to James Varnum, 8 November 1777

Kirkland II. no. 26


Box 1 Folder 43 Greene, Nathanael to James M. Varnum, 17 August 1777

Kirkland I. no. 21


Box 1 Folder 44 Greene, Nathanael to James M. Varnum, 21 November 1777

Kirkland I. no. 26


Box 1 Folder 45 Greene, Nathanael to James Abeel, 1777

Kirkland I. no. 32


Box 1 Folder 46 Greene, Nathanael to James M. Varnum, 27 March 1778

Kirkland I. no. 33


Box 1 Folder 47 Greene, Nathanael to Mrs. Nathaniel Greene, 4 June 1778

Kirkland I. no. 35


Box 1 Folder 48 Greene, Nathaniel to Mary Greene, 12 August 1776

Kirkland I, no. 16


Box 1 Folder 49 Habersham, John to Anthony Wayne, 7 August 1782

Kirkland I. no. 63


Box 1 Folder 50 Hamilton, Alexander to James McHenry


Box 1 Folder 51 Hamilton, James to Elias Boudinot, 7 July 1781

Kirkland II. no. 58


Box 1 Folder 52 Hancock, John to Virginia House of Burgesses, 20 November 1776

Kirkland I. no. 18


Box 1 Folder 53 Hand, Edward to Archibald Lochrey, 10 May 1778

Kirkland II. no. 35


Box 1 Folder 54 Harrison, Benjamin to George Washington, 28 February 1781

Kirkland II. no. 55


Box 1 Folder 55 Hazen, Moses to William Irvine, 21 September 1782

Kirkland II. no. 66


Box 1 Folder 56 Heath, William to Meshech Weare, 15 November 1777

Kirkland II. no. 27


Box 1 Folder 57 Henry, Patrick to Thomas Johnson, 12 March 1777

Kirkland I. no. 19


Box 1 Folder 58 Hervey, Augustus John, 3rd Earl of Bristol to Lord Rockingham, 10 June 1778

Kirkland I. no. 37


Box 1 Folder 59 Hervey, Augustus John, 3rd Earl of Bristol to Lord Rockingham, 17 August 1778

Kirkland I. no. 39


Box 1 Folder 60 Holten, Samuel to Charles Thomson, 11 October 1781

Kirkland II. no. 60


Box 1 Folder 61 Hopkinson, Francis to Thomas McKean, 7 April 1772

Kirkland II. no. 5


Box 1 Folder 62 Hopkinson, Francis to Samuel Fisher Bradford, 1 July 1799

Kirkland II. no. 84


Box 1 Folder 63 Horry, Peter to Nathanael Greene, 6 August 1781

Kirkland II. no. 59


Box 1 Folder 64 Howe, Robert to George Clinton, 8 June 1781

Kirkland II. no. 57


Box 1 Folder 65 Hunter, Samuel to James Potter, 26 October 1782

Kirkland II. no. 67


Box 1 Folder 66 Samuel, Huntington to J.P.Cooke, 10 December 1787

Kirkland I. no. 69



Box 2 Folder 1 Jefferson, Thomas to Thomas Leiper, 21 January 1809


Box 2 Folder 2 Jay, John to Robert Morris, 23 August 1777

Kirkland I. no. 22


Box 2 Folder 3 Jefferson, Thomas to James Wilkinson, 3 January 1809

Kirkland II. no. 87


Box 2 Folder 4 Jefferson, Thomas to William Burwell, 9 May 1804

Kirkland I. no. 72


Box 2 Folder 5 Jefferson, Thomas to Thomas Leiper, 31 May 1823


Box 2 Folder 6 Jones, Joseph to James Madison, 10 June 1795

Kirkland II. no. 81


Box 2 Folder 7 Jones, John Paul, 24 September 1776


Box 2 Folder 8 Kendall, Joseph to George Frend, 7 January 1778

Kirkland II. no. 30


Box 2 Folder 9 Key, Francis Scott to John Ross Key, 2 September 1814


Box 2 Folder 10 Kirkpatrick, James, 20 March 1782

Kirkland I. no. 59


Box 2 Folder 11 Knox, Henry to Benjamin Lincoln, 12 November 1781

Kirkland II. no. 61


Box 2 Folder 12 Lacey, John to Thomas Wharton, 13 April 1778

Kirkland II. no. 34


Box 2 Folder 13 Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul, Marquis de to Professor Milne, 18 May 1830


Box 2 Folder 14 Lamb, John to Richard Varick, 5 October 1830

Kirkland II. no. 51


Box 2 Folder 15 Lansing, John to Henry Remsen, 20 November 1784


Box 2 Folder 16 Laurens, Henry to William Fisher, Jr., 25 April 1772

Kirkland I. no. 5


Box 2 Folder 17 Laurens, Henry to James Laurens, 6 July 1774

Kirkland I. no. 9


Box 2 Folder 18 Laurens, Henry to Pierre du Ponceau, 4 April 1778

Kirkland II. no. 33


Box 2 Folder 19 Laurens, Henry to John Laurens, 14 August 1776

Kirkland I. no. 17


Box 2 Folder 20 Laurens, Henry to Patrick Henry, 5 May 1778


Box 2 Folder 21 Laurens, Henry to John Laurens, 14 August 1776

Kirkland I. no. 17


Box 2 Folder 22 Laurens, Henry to George Bryan, 10 June 1778

Kirkland I. no. 36


Box 2 Folder 23 Laurens, Henry to Caesar Rodney, 10 July 1778

Kirkland I. no. 38


Box 2 Folder 24 Laurens, Henry to Lord Stirling (James Alexander), 18 November 1778

Kirkland I. no. 41


Box 2 Folder 25 Laurens, Henry to William Alexander, Lord Stirling, 7 December 1778


Box 2 Folder 26 Laurens, Henry to Nathanael Greene, 26 August 1783

Kirkland I. no. 66


Box 2 Folder 27 Laurens, John to Henry Laurens, 18 February 1775

Kirkland II. no. 7


Box 2 Folder 28 Laurens, John to Henry Laurens, 1 March 1775

Kirkland II. no. 8


Box 2 Folder 29 Laurens, John to Henry Laurens, 29 March 1775

Kirkland I. no. 10


Box 2 Folder 30 Laurens, John to Henry Laurens, 20 April 1775

Kirkland I. no. 11


Box 2 Folder 31 Laurens, John to Henry Laurens, 26 April 1776

Kirkland I. no. 14


Box 2 Folder 32 Laurens, John, 5 May 1777

Kirkland I. no. 20


Box 2 Folder 33 Laurens, John to John Clark, 2 December 1777

Kirkland I. no. 28


Box 2 Folder 34 Laurens, John to Nathanael Greene, March 1782

Kirkland I. no. 61


Box 2 Folder 35 Lee, Arthur to James Lovell, 15 January 1779

Kirkland II. no. 42


Box 2 Folder 36 Lee, Charles to Nathaniel Woodhull, 14 February 1776

Kirkland II. no. 14


Box 2 Folder 37 Lee, Henry to William Irvine, 25 November 1794

Kirkland II. no. 80


Box 2 Folder 38 Lee, Richard Henry to Patrick Henry, 7 April 1777

Kirkland II. no. 20


Box 2 Folder 39 Lenox, Charles, 3rd Duke of Richmond to Duke of Chandos, 1782

Kirkland I. no. 58


Box 2 Folder 40 Lenox, Charles, 3rd Duke of Richmond to Duke of Chandos, 30 January 1782

Kirkland I. no. 55


Box 2 Folder 41 Lewis, Francis to Robert Morris, 15 January 1777

Kirkland II. no. 18


Box 2 Folder 42 Lincoln, Benjamin to William Irvine, 10 July 1782

Kirkland II. no. 64


Box 2 Folder 43 Lincoln, Benjamin to Nathanael Greene, 10 September 1782

Kirkland II. no. 65


Box 2 Folder 44 Livingston, Henry Brockholst to Richard Varick, 3 August 1777

Kirkland II. no. 24


Box 2 Folder 45 Livingston, William to John Livingston, 22 August 1782


Box 2 Folder 46 Lux, George to Nathanael Greene, 28 April 1778

Kirkland I. no. 34


Box 2 Folder 47 Lux, George to Nathanael Greene, 24 October 1778

Kirkland I. no. 40


Box 2 Folder 48 McDougall, Alex to Aaron Burr, 23 February 1779

Kirkland I. no. 43


Box 2 Folder 49 McHenry, James to George Washington, 30 October 1798

Kirkland II. no. 83


Box 2 Folder 50 McKean, Thomas to Caesar Rodney, 7 April 1777

Kirkland II. no. 19


Box 2 Folder 51 MacPherson, William, 5 June 1784

Kirkland I. no. 68


Box 2 Folder 52 Marion, Francis to Benjamin Lincoln, 28 January 1779

Kirkland I. no. 42


Box 2 Folder 53 Massachusetts, 7 December 1777

Kirkland I. no. 29


Box 2 Folder 54 Mathews, John to Benjamin Lincoln, 9 December 1779

Kirkland II. no. 49


Box 2 Folder 55 Matlack, Timothy to John Lacey, 16 May 1778

Kirkland II. no. 36


Box 2 Folder 56 Mercer, Hugh to Samuel Meredith, 9 August 1776


Box 2 Folder 57 Mifflin, Thomas to John Hancock, 31 May 1784

Kirkland I. no. 67


Box 2 Folder 58 Montagu, John, 4th Earl of Sandwich to Duke of Chandos, 15 February 1782

Kirkland I. no. 57


Box 2 Folder 59 Moore, William to James Claypoole, 27 September 1780

Kirkland I. no. 48


Box 2 Folder 60 Morgan, Daniel to David Alison, 15 August 1786

Kirkland II. no. 73


Box 2 Folder 61 Morgan, George to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 3 March 1779


Box 2 Folder 62 Morris, Robert, 3 September 1782

Kirkland I. no. 64


Box 2 Folder 63 Muhlenberg, Frederick to Benjamin Rush, 9 January 1790

Kirkland II. no. 77


Box 2 Folder 64 Muhlenberg, Peter to Benjamin Rush, 11 May 1789

Kirkland II. no. 74


Box 2 Folder 65 Murfree, Hardy to Captain Christie, 27 October 1779


Box 2 Folder 66 Nicola, Lewis to Thomas Arnold, 26 March 1782

Kirkland I. no. 60


Box 2 Folder 67 North, Frederick, Lord to John Robinson, 2 March 1783

Kirkland I. no. 65


Box 2 Folder 68 Ogden, Matthias to William Irvine, 9 January 1780

Kirkland II. no. 50



Box 3 Folder 1 Pennsylvania Militia, 2 April 1776

Kirkland I. no. 13


Box 3 Folder 2 Page, John to Robert C. Nicholas, 3 August 1776

Kirkland II. no. 16


Box 3 Folder 3 Parsons, Samuel Holden to Samuel Avery, 3 June 1777

Kirkland II. no. 66


Box 3 Folder 4 Pattinson, James, 16 November 1779

Kirkland II. no. 48


Box 3 Folder 5 Pemberton, James to Benjamin Franklin, 12 October 1780

Kirkland II. no. 52


Box 3 Folder 6 Penn, Thomas to Richard Peters, 15 May 1754

Kirkland I. no. 1


Box 3 Folder 7 Peters, Richard to Jasper Yeates, 19 October 1780

Kirkland I. no. 50


Box 3 Folder 8 Pettit, Charles to Clement Biddle, 14 August 1778

Kirkland II. no. 38


Box 3 Folder 9 Pickering, Timothy to Clement Biddle, 25 December 1777

Kirkland II. no. 29


Box 3 Folder 10 Pitt, William to Hans Stanley, July 1767


Box 3 Folder 11 Potter, James to Thomas Wharton, 15 December 1777

Kirkland I. no. 30


Box 3 Folder 12 Putnam, Israel to George Clinton, 2 July 1777

Kirkland II. no. 23


Box 3 Folder 13 Ragsdale, Drury to Nathanael Greene, 4 February 1782

Kirkland I. no. 56


Box 3 Folder 14 Randolph, John to Henry St. George Tucker, 18 June 1809

Kirkland II. no. 89


Box 3 Folder 15 Rawdon, Francis to Captain Berdot, 19 May 1781

Kirkland I. no. 53


Box 3 Folder 16 Reed, Joseph to Nathanael Greene, 14 March 1783

Kirkland II. no. 71


Box 3 Folder 17 Ross, George, 10 January 1776

Kirkland II. no. 13


Box 3 Folder 18 Rush, Benjamin to Lewis Morris, 22 July 1776

Kirkland II. no. 15


Box 3 Folder 19 St. Clair, Arthur to Joseph Reed, 8 April 1780

Kirkland I. no. 46


Box 3 Folder 20 Scammell, Alexander to Stephen Peabody, 2 April 1779

Kirkland I. no. 44


Box 3 Folder 21 Schuyler, Philip to Charles Lee, 29 February 1776

Kirkland I. no. 12


Box 3 Folder 22 Sharpe, William to Nathanael Greene, 30 January 1781


Box 3 Folder 23 Shields, William B. to Andrew Jackson, 2 May 1813

Kirkland II. no. 92


Box 3 Folder 24 Shirley, William to Robert Hunter Morris, 26 April 1755

Kirkland II. no. 2


Box 3 Folder 25 Sill, Richard to Henry Glen, 27 November 1782

Kirkland II. no. 70


Box 3 Folder 26 Smallwood, William to Lord Cornwallis, 8 December 1780

Kirkland II. no. 54


Box 3 Folder 27 Stephen, Adam to Horatio Gates, 20 August 1774

Kirkland II. no. 6


Box 3 Folder 28 Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von to Charles Lee, 2 December 1778

Kirkland II. no. 41


Box 3 Folder 29 Stewart, Charles to Messrs. Barclay and Meredith, 29 November 1780

Kirkland I. no. 51


Box 3 Folder 30 Stewart, Walter to Continental Board of War, 29 June 1779

Kirkland II. no. 45


Box 3 Folder 31 Sullivan, John to William Irvine, 27 November 1777

Kirkland II. no. 28


Box 3 Folder 32 Sullivan, John to Edward Hand, 2 June 1779

Kirkland II. no. 44


Box 3 Folder 33 Sumner, Jethro to Nathanael Greene, 15 May 1781

Kirkland II. no. 56


Box 3 Folder 34 Taylor, George to Samuel Tucker, 31 March 1776


Box 3 Folder 35 Ternant, Jean Baptiste to Henry Laurens, 9 October 1778

Kirkland II. no. 40


Box 3 Folder 36 Thomson, Charles, 4 September 1777

Kirkland I. no. 23


Box 3 Folder 37 Tilghman, Tench to Lord Stirling, 24 January 1778

Kirkland II. no. 31


Box 3 Folder 38 Tousard, Louis de to Marinus Willett, 2 April 1778

Kirkland II. no. 32


Box 3 Folder 39 Townshend, Charles to William Dowdeswell, 6 August 1764

Kirkland I. no. 3


Box 3 Folder 40 U.S. Congress, 2 March 1791

Kirkland II. no. 78


Box 3 Folder 41 Varick, Richard to John Lansing, 17 November 1776

Kirkland II. no. 17


Box 3 Folder 42 Wadsworth, Jeremiah to David Trumbull, 8 August 1781

Kirkland I. no. 54


Box 3 Folder 43 Warren, James to Elbridge Gerry, 8 September 1777


Box 3 Folder 44 Watertown, Mass. Chamber of Supplies, 18 June 1775

Kirkland II. no. 10


Box 3 Folder 45 Watson-Wentworth, Charles, Marquis of Rockingham to William Dowdeswell, 6 June 1774

Kirkland I. no. 8


Box 3 Folder 46 Wayne, Anthony to Joseph Reed, 25 October 1780

Kirkland II. no. 53


Box 3 Folder 47 Wayne, Anthony to John Habersham, 30 August 1782

Kirkland I. no. 62


Box 3 Folder 48 Weare, Meshech to John Dudley, 26 July 1778

Kirkland II. no. 37


Box 3 Folder 49 Wereat, John to Lachlan McIntoch, 30 July 1784


Box 3 Folder 50 Weston, Mass., 14 June 1774


Box 3 Folder 51 Whitefield, George to James Habersham, 26 September 1763

Kirkland I. no. 2


Box 3 Folder 52 Wilkinson, James to W. Eaton, 16 July 1808

Kirkland II. no. 88


Box 3 Folder 53 Williams, Otho Holland to George Washington, 1 March 1792

Kirkland II. no. 79


Box 3 Folder 54 Williams, William to Jedediah Huntington, 11 July 1776


Box 3 Folder 55 Woodford, William to Molly Woodford, 24 April 1777