Bear

Here is another pick.

Colonel Charles Webb from Connecticut is also listed.

Hello,

Here is a nice website that list the soldiers who wintered Valley Forge by regiment.

Valley Forge Legacy

http://www.valleyforgemusterroll.org/

thanks,

barry

It seems that Colonel Moses Hazen from Canada was at Valley Forge. However they don't seem to a list for his Canadian regiment.

If Hazen was there I imagine that Jean Baptiste Dupere was also at Valley Forge.

Moses Hazen was promoted to Brig. General at Yorktown in 1781.

A surgeon would be a very pleasant surprise. :jumping:

I did find a Seth Phillips that served throughout the war as a Private in the 7th Mass. under LtCol. John Brooks.

Don't worry, the thick scary salad-like green mold is just penicillin. :cheers:

I checked all my sources and nothing.

Here is another website that list Mass. Rev. soldiers.

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/state/revwar/p1.html

Thanks Rick

I'll check genealogy.com for more rev. info. and see what comes up.

thanks,

barry

The document was signed in Watertown and not Boston. The British had just evacuated Boston in March and maybe the government hadn't made it back to the capital. I think a small pox epidemic had also infested Boston around this time.

Hello,

I just picked up this military commission for Ensign Seth Phillips signed just 4 days after the Declaration of Independence. I still need to do some research on Seth.

To Mr. Seth Phillips Greetings. You being appointed Ensign of a Company of Militia in the First Battalion now being raised in the countys of Plymouth & Bristol where of Simeon Cary Esq. is Colonel & of which Company Freedom Chamberlain is Captain for reinforcing the Continental Army of New York ? You are therefore carefully and directly to discharge the Duty of an Ensign in leading ordering, and exercising said Company is Arms, both Inferior Officers and Soldiers; and to keep them in good Order and Discipline: And they are hereby commanded to obey you as their Ensign, and you are yourself, to observe and following such orders and instructions as you shall from time to time received from you superior officers.

Signed by all fifteen members of the Council of the Massachusetts Bay

The committee signs from top to bottom

B. Greenleaf

W Spooner

Caleb Cushing

J. Winthrop

T. Cushing

S. Holten

Jabez Fitch

B. White

Wm. Phillips

Henry Ganner [?]Gardiner

John Taylor

D. Hopkins

Jos. Cushing

Dan Davis

D. Sewall

Here is my other Mass Comm for a comparision

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9845

thanks,

barry

I've been looking through my books and found a surveyor-engineer. A surveyor might tend to wear civilian clothes.

Cap looks similar

The Apogee of the Empire Wagrom

by Hourtoulle & Jouineau

page 59

Keep Looking :cheers:

Maybe a naval officer. :speechless:

Timothy Matlack

wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Matlack

At the outset of the American Revolutionary War, Matlack served as clerk to Charles Thomson, the Secretary of the Continental Congress. In this role, he engrossed the copy of Declaration of Independence that was signed by the Continental Congress and is now on display in the National Archives. Matlack is also known to have penned in 1775 George Washington's commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the United Colonies (Continental Army), among other important documents of the time.

Hello,

I just picked up this miniature portrait. The sitter is wearing what seems to be civilian cloths with his military cap. Maybe an officer between wars. During this period officers would go on extended leave when the fighting stopped, and when war came they would be called back to duty. I'm not sure of the date but I'd guess 1800-1820.

thanks,

barry

Here is another I just got off Ebay. Fantastic Cap :jumping:

Young Girl from marseille 1807

Hello Scott,

I'm not sure but they do look fantastic in person. The ivory is extremely thin/fragile and when I handle them my heart sorta stops. When I get it I'll be able to take a better photo. When I photo them I take them out of the case because of old glary glass. The picture will be very clear. The item is coming out of an old collection Bernard Franck and it will usually have a tag that has additional information on the soldier.

Here are some examples

Young girl in first empire dress circa 1810

pic 2

Hello,

This is a military commission to James Hamilton while in Lancaster on the 8th of December 1777. The document is signed by Penn. Gov. Thomas Wharton Jr. and Timothy Matlack as Secretary.

Sept 11, 1777 - Howe defeats Washington at Brandywine

Sept 19, 1777 - Congress leaves Philadelphia for Lancaster

Sept 26, 1777 - General Howe takes Philadelphia

Dec 19, 1777 - Washington spends the winter at Valley Forge

thanks,

barry

Thanks Naxos

The portrait is 2.5 in. x 2 in.

Hava a Question????? The sitter is named Infantino Agere. Does that name seem Spanish or Italian or other? I'm hoping that additional info will come with the miniature.

thanks,

barry

Hello,

I just purchased a miniature portrait on ivory of a Spaniard in the Napoleonic French army. I should get it in a week for better pics and hopefully some more info on this major circa 1813.

thanks,

barry

Thanks Colin! That is a nice one of Lannes with his patent sideburns/chops.

barry

reverse

Just got it in and its a nice one.

The amount of fighting during this period is staggering.

I'm still looking for a picture of Cesar Berthier, so if some one knows where one is please post it.

thanks,

barry