Benjamin Lincoln papers, 1635-1964 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Papers of General Benjamin Lincoln of Hingham, Mass., 1775-1810, pertaining to his position as Hingham's town clerk; his military career as General in the Continental Army under George Washington during the Revolutionary War and Shays' Rebellion; and positions as Secretary of War (1781-83), lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (1787), United States Commissioner Plenipotentiary to the Southern Indians (1789), and first collector of the port of Boston (1789-1809). The collection includes military, professional, and personal correspondence, maps, orderly books, letterbooks, muster rolls, commissions, and reports of court martial. Correspondence includes original and manuscript copies of letters to and from George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Otis, John Jay, John Marshall, Nathaniel Greene, Horatio Gates, Henry Knox, Marquis de Lafayette, Count Kazimierz Pulaski, Timothy Pickering, and Benjamin Waterhouse, among others