COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Lawrence, Jonathan, 1737-1812.
Author (contributor):
JCB Redwood Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Title:
Memorandum of sundry transactions from my leaving Rhinebeck in the state of New York till my arrival on board the Hector of 74 guns commanded by Capt. Mories.
Begin Publication Date:
1778
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991018428549706966
Permanent Call Number:
Codex Eng 64
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 32200
Subjects:
Lawrence, Jonathan,--1737-1812.
Subjects:
Hamilton, Alexander,--1757-1804.
Subjects:
Estaing, Charles Henri,--comte d',--1729-1794.
Subjects:
Rhode Island, Battle of, R.I., 1778.
Subjects:
United States--History--Campaigns.--Revolution, 1775-1783
Subjects:
Rhode Island--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Subjects:
Manuscripts--English.
Subjects:
Imprint 1778.
General Note:
Ms. codex.; Title from first sentence on p. [5] of manuscript.; Page [32] has annotation: Memorandum Book and is signed Johnathan Lawrence major.; Pages [2-3] contain a handwritten chronology dated from August 23-26, 1778.; Pages [26-31] are blank.; Diary of a refugee from Newton, Long Island, who had settled in Rhinebeck, New York. Lawrence was a ranking major of a militia company. His narrative includes a meeting with Frederick Jay, younger brother of John Jay, with whom he set up the Patriotic Trading Company. On his way to Boston he met with Alexander Hamilton, who was serving as George Washington's aide-de-camp, and was asked to assist the recently arrived squadron commanded by Admiral Charles Henri d'Estaing as a pilot on a voyage from Sandy Hook to Narragansett Bay. This diary covers that voyage, the operation in Narragansett Bay, and d'Estaing's skirmishes with Lord Howe off of Rhode Island. It ends at the author's disembarkation from the ship he piloted under d'Estaing's command.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy housed in green cloth-covered slipcase measuring 19 cm. in height.; John Carter Brown Library copy has a typed transcript of the diary housed in the JCB bibliographical file.; John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of the JCB Associates.