Orderly Books as Yet Unidentified


The following orderly books have, as yet, not been identified as to the units within which they were maintained. These volumes are presented in two sections and will be here briefly discussed in that order. Skip to the second section.

The first group of books, those presented by year, have been encountered during the survey for this Index but the very large majority have not, as yet, been read by either of the site’s compilers. These unread books are denoted by a single dagger symbol within the “Source/Options” column. It is a primary priority that these books be identified and placed in their proper category within the Index. The compilers will be working with the respective holding institutions to achieve these identifications, but would greatly welcome the assistance of other students and researchers in reaching that goal. Should any user of this website have access to microfilms of any of these missing books or could visit the respective institution, we would be eager to work with them in correctly identifying the source unit and will gladly provide guidance on the manner in which this can be accomplished. As books become identified, notification of such will be made within the “New & Future” section. The remaining minority of only seven orderly books denoted with a double dagger symbol are volumes which have been read by the compilers but which contain insufficient information to enable a unit identification. Typically, such books contain only a very small number of regimental or brigade orders, may indicate the state of the maintaining unit, but lack the level of orders content which would allow an accurate identification of the particular unit itself. Thus, these are books which will likely never be specifically identified.



Last updated: 20 February 2008

Unit Begin Date End Date Location Source/Options
1775
       
U-75-09.
Unidentified Regiment 		27 Jun 1775 29 Aug 1775 Cambridge ‡Original: American Antiquarian Soc, #3.
U-75-04.
? 		2 Aug 1775 1 Dec 1775 Cambridge †Original: Boston Athenaeum.
U-75-05.
? 		19 Sept 1775 31 Dec 1775 Cambridge, Roxbury †Original: Clements Library, #13.
U-75-06.
? 		25 Sept 1775 1 Nov 1775 St Johns †Original: CT State Library.
U-75-07.
? 		1775 ? ? †Original: NYHS, Walker family papers.
1776
         
U-76-03.
? 		14 Apr 1776 6 Jun 1776 New York †Original: WP Vault.
U-76-11.
? 		Oct 1776 Nov 1776 Westchester Co. †Original: NYPL.
U-76-13.
Unidentified Regiment
[? Bde.] 		8 Jul 1776 12 Aug 1776 New York †Original: Society of the Cincinnati, MSS L1995F328.
1777
         
U-77-05.
Unidentifiable North Carolina Regiment 		7 Feb 1777 26 Jun 1777 Haddrell's Point, Wilmington, Roanoke, Quibbletown ‡Original: HS Penn, Am 6515.
U-77-03.
? 		27 Sept 1777 24 Nov 1777 Skippack, Whitpain, Whitemarsh †Original: Morristown, also microfilm: reel 57, frame 521.
U-77-06.
? 		1777 ? Newport †Original: Cornell University Library.
1778
         
U-78-16.
Unidentified New Jersey Regiment 		14 Jan 1778 18 Feb 1778 Valley Forge ‡NJ Hist Soc #226, pt. 2.
U-78-04.
? 		20 Jan 1778 22 Feb 1778 Great Valley †Original: Clements Library, #7.
U-78-08.
? 		22 May 1778 23 May 1778 Valley Forge †Original: NYPL.
U-78-15.
? 		15 Aug 1778 24 Nov 1778 ? †Original: H S Penn, Am 629.
1779
         
U-79-04.
Connecticut Regiment ( ? ) 		23 Jul 1779 26 Aug 1779 Nelson's Point †Original: CTHS, MS 72593.
U-79-07.
? Regiment of Light Dragoons 		1779 1779 ? †Original: Duke Univ, Manuscript Dept.
1780
         
U-80-15.
Unidentifiable Massachusetts Regiment 		1 Jan 1780 15 Aug 1780 West Point, Peekskill ‡Original: NYS Library, 8755.
U-80-02.
South Carolina Line ? 		16 Feb 1780 10 May 1780 Charlestown †Original: NYPL.
U-80-14.
Unidentifiable Brigade 		28 May 1780 18 Aug 1780 West Point, Peekskill, Orangetown ‡Original: HS Penn, Am 646.
U-80-16.
Unidentified Regiment 		2 Aug 1780 14 Oct 1780 Totowa, West Point †Original: Society of the Cincinnati, MSS L1998F206.4.
U-80-06.
? 		3 Aug 1780 31 Aug 1780 ? †Original: WP WPA.
U-80-11.
? 		12 Nov 1780 17 Feb 1781 Totowa, West Point, New Windsor †Original: J.C. Brown Library.
1781
         
U-81-08.
Unidentified Brigade, Southern Department 		8 Apr 1781 1 Jan 1782 Ramsey's Mills,
Evans Mills, Kimboroughs,
Lynch's Creek,
Sand Hills, Camden,
Rusely Mills,
Colonel's Creek,
before 96,
Camp Congaree,
Camp High Hills of Santee,
Camden, Fort Motte,
Martin's Tavern,
Eutaw Springs,
High Hills of Santee, Orangeburgh,
Round O, COL Sanders,
Round O 		‡Original: LOC #922. Online Catalog under: Nathaniel Pendleton. Call Number: MMC.
U-81-07.
? 		8 May 1781 8 Aug 1781 West Point †Original: Wyoming Historical & Geological Society, pt. 2.
U-81-06.
Unidentifiable Division 		31 Jul 1781 2 Aug 1781 Hudson Highlands ‡Original: NYHS, also microfilm: #145, reel 14.
U-81-03.
Unidentifiable Brigade 		26 Sept 1781 27 Oct 1781 Williamsburg,
before York 		‡Original: NYSL, 3928.
U-81-04.
? 		26 Sept 1781 2 Nov 1781 Yorktown †Original: ?, also published 64.
U-81-05.
? 		1 Oct 1781 27 Feb 1782 Horseneck, Stamford †Original: CT State Library.
1782
         
U-82-01.
? 		13 Mar 1782 12 May 1782 South Carolina †Original: Huntington, BR 743.
U-82-05.
Unidentifiable Connecticut Brigade 		2 Aug 1782 14 Nov 1782 Nelson's Point,
Verplanck's Point,
West Point 		‡Original: NARA, also microfilm: M853, r10, v64.
U-82-09.
? 		9 Nov 1782 25 Oct 1783 Newburgh, Philadelphia †Original: Huntington, also microfilm: BR 98.
1783
         
         


The second group of books which follows relates to as yet unidentified volumes which were noted within Harriette Forbes’ New England Diaries, 1602-1800. This volume, published in 1923, represented the results of more than two decades of remarkable effort by Ms. Forbes. Focusing solely on the New England colonies, and later states, Forbes set herself the goal of surveying every diary kept by a New England resident or by persons passing through New England during the immense time frame of her focus. Resultantly, the published work is a veritable treasure trove of thousands of diaries, both published and in manuscript. This truly pioneering work also contains an appendix in which Forbes likewise surveyed military orderly books of New England units during the colonial, French and Indian, and Revolutionary Wars. Being remarkably thorough in her research, she uncovered hundreds of diaries and many orderly books which appear in no other bibliography. A portion of the orderly books which she cataloged and which remain as yet unidentified are within smaller institutional collections and will, as noted above, be a primary focus point for identification as this Index is finalized. In other cases, however, some listed orderly books will likely never be found. In making her work as complete as possible, Forbes surveyed unpublished diaries and orderly books which, in the 1920s, were within private possession, held either by descendant families or by manuscript collectors. Given the amount of time which has passed since Forbes’ survey, a number of these manuscript volumes, of course, have either been lost, have been deposited in unknown institutions, or remain within private hands not known to the compilers of this Index. Since the listing of such books would be useless to the present-day student, they have been eliminated from the current Index. (It should also be noted that the Index contains no Continental Army orderly books currently held by private parties as such books would be virtually if not literally inaccessible to any Index user.)



Material from Harriette Forbes' New England Diaries
         
U-F-01.
COL Bailey's Massachusetts Regiment ? 		22 Aug 1775 17 Dec 1775 Roxbury †Original: NEHGS, Forbes [Ames].
U-F-05.
? 		9 Apr 1775 6 Jul 1775 Cambridge, Winter Hill †Original: ? Copy: Boston Public Library, Forbes [Bowen].
U-F-06.
9th Massachusetts Regiment ? 		1780 1780 West Point †Original: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Forbes [Clap + 5 others].
U-F-07.
? 		21 Jun 1775 9 Oct 1775 Cambridge, Prospect Hill †Original: Rhode Island HS, Forbes [Clark].
U-F-09.
? 		Aug 1778 Aug 1778 Middletown †Original: Adams Library, Forbes [Greene].
U-F-10.
? 		1 Aug 1776 1 Dec 1776 Dorchester, Boston †Original: Massachusetts HS, Forbes [Greenleaf].
U-F-11.
? 		14 Jan 1776 24 Sept 1776 Falmouth †Original: ?, also published 102, Forbes [Illsley].
U-F-12.
? 		2 Apr 1777 10 Jun 1780 Cumberland Co. †Original: ?, also published 102, Forbes [Illsley].
U-F-13.
COL Bigelow's Massachusetts Regiment ? 		15 Feb 1779 26 Aug 1779 Providence †Original: AAS?, Forbes [Knower].
U-F-14.
British ? 		6 Oct 1776 24 Nov 1776 New York †Original: NEHGS, Forbes [Knox].
U-F-15.
British ? 		23 Dec 1776 27 Dec 1776 New York †Original: NEHGS, Forbes [Knox].
U-F-16.
? 		27 Mar 1777 7 Sept 1777 Morristown, Middlebrook,
Schuylkill Falls 		†Original: NEHGS, Forbes [Knox].
U-F-17.
? 		1 Jan 1781 8 Aug 1781 West Point,
New Windsor,
King's Bridge 		†Original: NEHGS, Forbes [Knox].
U-F-18.
12th Continental ? 		26 Jun 1776 Apr 1776 Plowed Hill †Original: Massachusetts HS, Forbes [Little].
U-F-21.
? 		27 May 1783 7 Jul 1783 Philadelphia †Original: Maine HS, Forbes [Rowe].
U-F-22.
? 		17 Oct 1776 30 Nov 1776 March from Taunton, thru Connecticut, to White Plains †Original: ?, also published 108, Forbes [Sever].
U-F-23.
? 		4 Aug 1780 7 Aug 1780 Rhode Island †Original: ?, also published 108, Forbes [Sever].
U-F-24.
? 		2 Oct 1777 14 Feb 1778 Tiverton, Germantown †Original: Original: LOC , Forbes [Spencer].
U-F-25.
? 		Aug 1778 Aug 1778 Rhode Island †Original: NYPL, Forbes [Sullivan].
U-F-26.
? 		11 Oct 1780 26 Nov 1780 Totowa †Original: Connecticut State Library, Forbes [Taylor].
U-F-27.
COL Baldwin's Massachusetts Regiment? 		1 Aug 1775 25 Aug 1775 ? †Original: Woburn Public Library, Forbes [Thompson].
U-F-28.
2d Continental Artillery Regiment (Lamb)? 		6 Jun 1779 1 Aug 1779 Stott's House,
West Point 		†Original: NYHS, Forbes [Walker].
U-F-29.
? 		20 Apr 1775 3 Apr 1776 Cambridge †Original: Adjutant General's Office, Forbes [Ward].
U-F-30.
? 		29 Jul 1775 20 Mar 1777 Roxbury, Boston †Original: Adjutant General's Office, Forbes [Ward].
U-F-31.
? 		23 Apr 1775 7 Jul 1775 Cambridge †Original: Massachusetts HS, also published 107, Forbes [Unknown].
U-F-32.
? 		4 Jul 1775 4 Dec 1775 Cambridge, Roxbury †Original: HS Pennsylvania, Forbes [Unknown].
U-F-33.
Artillery ? 		1 Jan 1776 20 Apr 1776 ? †Original: Boston Public Library, Forbes [Unknown].
U-F-34.
? 		18 Jun 1776 9 Jul 1776 ? †Original: LOC, #912?, Forbes [Unknown].
U-F-35.
RI Artillery Bde? 		28 Jun 1776 11 Jun 1779 Rhode Island †Original: NEHGS, Forbes [Unknown].
U-F-36.
Lincoln's Standing Orders ? 		28 Jan 1777 25 Feb 1777 ? †Original: Original: LOC , Forbes [Unknown].
U-F-37.
Rhode Island Regt? 		12 Aug 1777 3 Feb 1778 Mount Holly,
Red Bank 		†Original: John Hay Library, Forbes [Unknown].
U-F-38.
? 		13 Apr 1778 9 May 1778 Valley Forge †Original: NEHGS, Forbes [Unknown].
U-F-39.
? 		24 Sept 1779 27 Oct 1781 Gabley's Ferry,
Milling's House, York, Wilmington 		†Original: J.C. Brown Library, Forbes [Unknown].
U-F-40.
8th Massachusetts Regiment ? 		10 Aug 1780 8 Dec 1780 Orangetown, West Point †Original: Peabody, Forbes [Unknown].
U-F-41.
COL Samuel Denny's Massachusetts Militia Regiment? 		9 Aug 1776 2 Oct 1777 New York, Saratoga †Original: Westborough HS, Forbes [Annotations].

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