Manuscript Group 341, Daniel Curtin (fl. 1775-1776), Revolutionary War Soldier Journal, 1775-1776

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Manuscript Group 341,
Daniel Curtin (fl. 1775-1776), Revolutionary War Soldier

Journal, 1775-1776, 0.06
linear feet / 1 volume

Call Number: MG 341

Summary

• Biographical
  Note

• Provenance
  Note

• Scope
  and Content Note

Summary:

Diary written during the
siege of Boston and en route to New York, where Curtin was discharged on May 29,
1776.

Gift of Mrs. S. S. Battin,
1969.

Biographical
Note:

Daniel Curtin was a Revolutionary War
soldier who fought at Cambridge, Massachusetts.  He was discharged on May
29, 1776 in New York City.

Provenance
Note:

This collection was donated by Mrs. S. S.
Buttin in 1969.

Scope
and Content Note:

This journal kept by Daniel Curtin from
1775 to 1776 measures 0.06 linear feet.  There are daily entries, which
vary in detail from “nothing important happened today” to descriptions
of the fighting going on in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area.  Curtin’s
unit, whose name is not mentioned, went from Cambridge to Severn Island and
later to New York where he was discharged on May 29, 1776.

Processed by James Lewis, June 2001 as part of the “Farm to City”
project funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission.

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