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Title: Orderly books of Ebenezer Thayer, Jr. 1776-1791
Creator: Thayer, Ebenezer, Jr., fl. 1776-1791, author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1776
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Manuscripts
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Description: Orderly books of Ebenezer Thayer: 1) 1776, Aug. 16 - Nov. 28, Boston and Dorchester, Mass.; 2) 1780, Aug. 20 - Oct. 27, Howland Ferry, Newport, Butt Hill, R.I., and 3) 1786, May 9 - 1791, Apr. 3, Dorchester, Braintree, Roxbury, Mass. Also included are "Return of Officers Elected in the First Division, First Brigade of Militia of this Commonwealth, 1789, Aug. 6 - Sept. 3 (ff. 127 v. - 129), and Ebenezer Thayer's letters, reports, and communications addressed to William Heath, 1780, Aug. 11 - Sept. 23.
Ebenezer Thayer, Jr., an officer of the Massachusetts militia. In 1776, Colonel Thayer commanded a militia regiment raised for the defense of Boston. In the fall of 1780, he was in charge of a three-month regiment of militia raised to support the Expédition particulière, the French expeditionary army under the command of Rochambeau. The regiment was placed under the command of William Heath and stationed in Rhode Island. After the war, Ebenezer Thayer commanded a militia regiment that was part of Benjamin Lincoln's force that suppressed Shay's Rebellion. By 1789, Thayer had been promoted to Brigadier General and commanded a brigade in 1st Division, Massachusetts Militia, stationed at Braintree and Boston.
Extent: 133 leaves, 20 cm, bound volume.
Identifier: mssHM 594
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll7/id/8695
Language: English
Subject: Thayer, Ebenezer, Jr., fl. 1776-1791--Archives
Heath, William, 1737-1814--Correspondence
Massachusetts. Militia--Archives
United States. Continental Army--History--Sources
Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787--Sources
Massachusetts--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources
Massachusetts--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Regimental histories--Sources
Rhode Island--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Sources
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces--Sources
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French--Sources
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Regimental histories--Massachusetts--Sources
Military records United States Revolution, 1775-1783. (aat)
Military records Massachusetts 18th century. (aat)
Orderly books Massachusetts Revolution, 1775-1783. (aat)
Orderly books United States Revolution, 1775-1783. (aat)
Source: Orderly Books of the American Revolution.
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library

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