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Boston Hussars documents

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Call Number:
F0016A
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
32 item
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0099, F0016A, Boston Hussars documents, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1803-1879 (inclusive)
Creator:
Massachusetts. Militia. Boston Hussars
Form:
Regulations (executive records), Financial records, and Clippings (information artifacts)
Abstract:
Militia documents relating to Ralph Haskins, member of the Boston Hussars, a militia group formed in New England during the War of 1812, including a booklet titled, Rules and Regulations of the Boston Hussars. Instituted November 20, 1810., six newspaper articles from the Boston Daily Advertiser, and three autograph appointments of Haskins to Sergeant (1811), Cornet (1814), and Lieutenant (1816). Other materials consist of financial autograph accounts of military and uniform related expenditures, all dating from 1803 to 1879.

Militia documents relating to Ralph Haskins, member of the Boston Hussars, a militia group formed in New England during the War of 1812, including a booklet titled,

Rules and Regulations of the Boston Hussars. Instituted November 20, 1810., six newspaper articles from the Boston Daily Advertiser, and three autograph appointments of Haskins to Sergeant (1811), Cornet (1814), and Lieutenant (1816). Other materials consist of financial autograph accounts of military and uniform related expenditures, all dating from 1803 to 1879.

Box 1, F0016A: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, 1983

Processed and encoded by George Apodaca, April 2016.

This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2016 April 13
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Boston Hussars documents, 1803-1879.
Box 1 Folder F0016A

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