Research Catalog

Title

Henry Dearborn journal, 1779-1781.

Author

Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wakefield, Jeremiah.
• Emmet collection.

Description

.2 linear foot (1 volume).

Summary

Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) of New Hampshire was an an American army officer and statesman. He fought in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, attaining the rank of senior Major General in the U.S. Army. Dearborn was U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, 1793-1797; U.S. Secretary of War, 1801-1809; and U.S. minister to Portugal, 1822-1824. The journal of Continental Army officer Henry Dearborn (1 volume), kept from 1779 0ctober 28 to 1781 December 10, concerns troop movements in New York and New Jersey; war news and rumors; trips to New Hampshire on leave; his appointment as Deputy Quartermaster General in 1781 July; movement of the American army from New York to Yorktown, Virginia; the siege of Yorktown and its surrender 1781 October 19; his illness; quartermaster duties; and arrival at winter quarters in New York in December. There are additional memoranda by Henry Dearborn; the volume was also used by Jeremiah Wakefield of Pittston, Maine for accounts and writing exercises.

Subjects

• United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Personal narratives
• Pittston (Me. : Town)
• Soldiers
• United States > Continental Army > Officers > Diaries
• Yorktown (Va.) > History > Siege, 1781
• United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Campaigns
• Diaries

Genre/Form

Diaries.

Access (note)

• Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Source (note)

• Donated by John S. Kennedy, 1896, as part of the Emmet collection.

Publications (note)

• Journal entries from 1779 0ctober 28 to 1781 December 10 were published in The Revolutionary War journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775-1783, edited from the original manuscripts by Lloyd A. Brown and Howard H. Peckham; with a biographical essay by Hermon Dunlap Smith (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1939).

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• Prepared for microfilming
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

MssCol 755

OCLC

NYPW91-A54

Author

Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829.

Title

Henry Dearborn journal, 1779-1781.

Restricted Access

Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Publications

Journal entries from 1779 0ctober 28 to 1781 December 10 were published in The Revolutionary War journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775-1783, edited from the original manuscripts by Lloyd A. Brown and Howard H. Peckham; with a biographical essay by Hermon Dunlap Smith (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1939).

Source

Donated by John S. Kennedy, 1896, as part of the Emmet collection.

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Finding aid

Occupation

Soldiers.

Added Author

Wakefield, Jeremiah.

Emmet collection.

Research Call Number

MssCol 755