Gift: Acc. 2002.57 Gordon Lewis
Processed by Cynthia B. Brown in 1983
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Waring Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
Notes and accounts, 1776-1780 and undated, concerning the service of Henry Waring, Thomas Waring and William Waring, brothers from Essex County, Virginia in the American Revolution. Includes payroll account for a detachment of the 7th Virginia Regiment; an inventory of the estate of Captain Henry Waring; enlistment record [during the American Revolution?] giving men's names, heights, and complexion; and commissions and allegiance oath of Henry Waring.
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Includes payroll account for a detachment of the 7th Virginia Regiment; an inventory of the estate of Captain Henry Waring; and enlistment record [during the American Revolution ?] giving men's names, heights and complexion.
29 August 1779. Thomas Allen, Camp Ramapough, [N.J.], to Capt. Werring Requests that his money, $18.00, be sent to his father.
20 March 1780. "Henry Waring's Acct.," listing Negroes, horses, furniture, household items, cattle, farm produce, and farm machinery.
20 March 1780. Receipt for fc50 paid by the estate of Captain Henry Waring to James Chamberlain for making his [HW] coffin.
Payroll account for a detachment of the 7th Virginia Regt., marching 300 miles inland in Virginia, and listing Henry Waring, Lieut., as receiving $27.00
Account, probably for slaves, of Thomas Waring's
Enlistment record [during the American Revolution?] giving men's names, their height, and a description of their complexion; lists William Waring's name amongst others.
Four Revolutionary War items relating to Henry Waring -- commissions in Virginia regiments and his oath of allegiance, 1776-1779. Among the signatures are Lafayette, Edmund Pendleton, John Page and Dudley Digges. Includes appointment, 5 March 1776, of Waring as an ensign in the 7th regiment, Continental Army (signed by Paul Carrington, Dudley Digges, Thomas Ludwell Lee, James Mercer, John Page, Edmund Pendleton and John Tabb); oath, 15 May 1778, taken by Waring as 2nd lieutenant in the 7th regiment (signed by Marquis de Lafayette), appointment, 10 October 1776, of Waring as second lieutenant inthe 7th regiment of Continental Army (signed by John Hancock and Charles Thomson); and appointment, 20 March 1779, of Waring as lieutenant in the 55th Regiment of the Continental Army (signed by John Jay and P. Scrobb).