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The collection consists of a notebook and order book of Benjamin Lincoln. The notebook contains essays composed by Lincoln
from 1780-1795. Essay titles include: State of Matters Relative to the Defense and Loss of Charlestown; Rise, Progress and
Suppression of the Massachusetts Rebellion; Causes of the Failure of the Mission to the Hostile Indians; Invalidity of the
Claims of the Indians to the Grounds on Which They Hunt; Observations on the Climate & C. of the Eastern Counties; On the
Religious State of the Eastern Counties; On the Migration of Fishes; Observations Founded on a Letter to Judge Lowell on the
Idea that Worms in the Vegetables and Animal Bodies Were the Consequences and Not the Cause of Corruption; and Why the Indian
Tribes Decrease & C. The order book contains orders written by General Benjamin Lincoln from 1779-1780. Orders mainly concern
general military administration and discipline of troops. Of particular interest are orders pertaining to marches or sieges
at Augusta, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina.
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