Captain Robert Gamble's memorandum book (Accession 37036), 1777 August - 1779 June 6.

Extent:

Extent: 1 volume (138 p.)

Scope and content:

This volume contains memoranda kept by Captain Robert Gamble, paymaster. The volume includes a rank-roll of field officers of the Virginia line, 14 September 1778; the arrangement of field officers and their respective regiments; a list of field officers who were prisoners; a rank-roll of Captains and Captain-Lieutenants of the Continental Troops of the Virginia Line, according to a resolution of Congress; an arrangement of Captains and Captain-Lieutenants to the different regiments; a list of Captains and Captain-Lieutenants who were prisoners; manifesto issued by the Continental Congress through Henry Laurens, 30 October 1778; List of money realized from sale of ordinance and stores taken at capture at Stoney Point, 22 August 1779; and subscribers who have received their share and a list of Captain Gamble's company as it stood on June 6, 1779. There are also lists of uniforms issued and cash for rations issued in Captain Gamble's function as quartermaster. Note is made of his being in Lancaster, Pa. to get uniforms. And including various memoranda as to his own accounts and activities, including copies of several hymns and poems. There is also a copy of General Washington's orders issued at Wilmington on September 5, 1777. (Accession 37036)

Originally labeled "Revolutionary Army Vol. 2." Indexed in Eckenrode's "Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution" as "Rev. Army v. 2, Gam."

Captain Robert Gamble served as paymaster to the 12th Virginia Regiment in 1777.

There is also a photostat of this volume available. (Accession 25871)

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