Creator
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Date of Original
1780/1795

Subject
Charleston (S.C.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Indians of North America--Government relations
Religious life
Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787

People
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Location
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
United States, South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston, 32.77657, -79.93092

Medium
orders (military records)
essays

Type
Text

Description
The collection consists of a notebook and order book of Benjamin Lincoln. The notebook contains essays composed by Lincoln from 1780-1795. Essay titles include: "State of Matters Relative to the Defense and Loss of Charlestown;" "Rise, Progress and Suppression of the Massachusetts Rebellion;" Causes of the Failure of the Mission to the Hostile Indians;" "Invalidity of the Claims of the Indians to the Grounds on Which They Hunt;" "Observations on the Climate &C. of the Eastern Counties;" "On the Religious State of the Eastern Counties;" "On the Migration of Fishes;" "Observations Founded on a Letter to Judge Lowell on the Idea that Worms in the Vegetables and Animal Bodies Were the Consequences and Not the Cause of Corruption;" and "Why the Indian Tribes Decrease &C." The order book contains orders written by General Benjamin Lincoln from 1779-1780. Orders mainly concern general military administration and the discipline of troops. Of particular interest are orders pertaining to marches or sieges at Augusta, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_0787

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Hargrett Library

Rights