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  • 'My Last Shift Betwixt Us and Death'
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Among the many forgotten heroes of the American Revolution are the commissaries - the hundreds of men who worked to supply the fighting men with arms, clothing and food. Consider the difficulties in supplying an army of more than 17,000 men in an era when transportation and communication could only be conducted by horseback or wagon, and preservative techniques were completely ...
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    27,72 €

  • Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never been published, or have been printed long ago and are no longer readily available. The intent of this effort is to present a...
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    23,92 €

  • Our Troops Are in General Almost Naked
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    This book honors the Delaware and New York contingents of the American infantry that served at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Mr. Boyle’s informative introduction traces the service of the regiments before and after they joined General Washington in November 1777. The core of the book consists of an alphabetical list in excess of 2,000 Delaware and New York soldiers abstracted fro...
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    37,22 €

  • She Snuffs, Drinks and Smokes
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    The demand for labor in the colonial period was such that by 1775 an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 indentured persons had been transported to America. Given the scale of indentured servitude, runaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century. This book, Joseph Lee Boyle’s sixth collection of runaway servant ads for 18th-century Pennsylvanians, spans the era of...
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    58,27 €

  • Much Given to Strong Liquor, and Low Company
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Runaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century. One source estimates that between 20-25% of indentured servants fled their masters. More Pennsylvanians fled indentured servitude between 1773 and 1775 than during any comparable three-year period. From the genealogist’s standpoint, this presents a methodological problem since it was in the runaway’s best int...
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    65,31 €

  • Much Addicted to Strong Drink and Swearing
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    This is the eighth collection of runaway servant ads for the Chesapeake region compiled by Joseph Lee Boyle, and it covers Pennsylvania ads for the years 1769-1772. As Mr. Boyle points out in his very helpful introduction, Pennsylvania received one-tenth of all male indentured servants from the 1720s through the 1740s, and about one-fifth of the women in that period. According ...
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    54,68 €

  • Much Given to Liquor and Chewing Tobacco
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Runaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century. One source estimates that between 20-25% of indentured servants fled their masters. From the genealogist’s standpoint, this presents a methodological problem since it was in the runaway’s best interest to conceal his/her identity after making a successful getaway. In other words, even if the runaway kept the ...
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    61,55 €

  • Apt to Get Drunk at All Opportunities
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Runaway servants were not an uncommon phenomenon in the 18th century. One source estimates that between 20-25% of indentured servants fled their masters. From the genealogist’s standpoint, this presents a methodological problem since it was in the runaway’s best interest to conceal his/her identity after making a successful getaway. In other words, even if the runaway kept the ...
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    54,18 €

  • Lazy, Loves Strong Drink, and Is a Glutton
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    As Mr. Boyle points out in his very helpful introduction, Pennsylvania received one-tenth of all male indentured servants from the 1720s through the 1740s, and about one-fifth of the women in that period. According to one authority, over 67,000 German immigrants arrived at the busy port of Philadelphia from 1720 through 1760, at least half of whom were servants. Mr. Boyle’s tra...
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    47,87 €

  • Sly and Artful Rogues
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    This is the fourth volume compiled by Mr. Boyle containing 18th-century Maryland runaway servant ads posted in local newspapers. It follows runaways during the period of the American Revolution, 1775-1781. The roughly 1,000 ads found here name between 3,000 and 4,000 persons--indentured servants, convict laborers, and African-American slaves--reflecting the fact that the transp...
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    54,20 €

  • Very Impudent When Drunk or Sober
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    This book identifies indentured servants and African-American slaves who fled their Delaware masters and whose apprehension was elicited in colonial/Revolutionary newspapers’ ads. These ads included descriptions of runaways and criminals living in Delaware, as well as those born or having contacts there. The ads contained references to the runaway’s age, sex, height, place of o...
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    48,24 €

  • Given to Drinking and Whoring White Maryland Runaways, 1720-1762
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    This volume contains between 1,500 and 2,000 Maryland runaway servant advertisements--naming 4,000 persons in all--that appeared in nineteen colonial newspapers published in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. ...
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    60,54 €

  • Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army, December 19, 1777-June 19, 1778, Volume VII
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never been published, or have been printed long ago and are no longer readily available. The intent of this effort is to present a...
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    29,73 €

  • This Grand Supply the Samuel Hodgdon Letterbooks, 1778-1784. Volume 1, July 19, 1778-March 31, 1781
    Joseph Lee Boyle / Samuel Hodgdon
    In July 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the appointment of a Commissary of Military Stores, who was responsible for the receipt and issuance of military stores. These letters concern the procurement, shipment, repair and sale of military stores; estimates of stores needed and on hand; construction of ordnance installations; and payment and discharge of employees. The ...
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    37,62 €

  • This Grand Supply the Samuel Hodgdon Letterbooks, 1778-1784. Volume 2, April 3, 1781-May 24, 1784
    Joseph Lee Boyle / Samuel Hodgdon
    In July 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the appointment of a Commissary of Military Stores, who was responsible for the receipt and issuance of military stores. These letters concern the procurement, shipment, repair and sale of military stores; estimates of stores needed and on hand; construction of ordnance installations; and payment and discharge of employees. The ...
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    38,83 €

  • 'Fire Cake and Water'
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    'While the six-month encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge in 1777-1778 has been part of America’s folklore for generations,' author Joseph Boyle writes in his Introduction, 'most of the men who served there have remained anonymous. The names of over 30,000 men of all ranks appear on the surviving monthly muster and payroll records. This compilation is the initial ...
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    35,17 €

  • When Drunk Is Very Bold
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    The roughly 750 runaway notices in 'When Drunk Is Very Bold' name upwards of 2,500 people in all. The transcriber has gathered this otherwise inaccessible data by combing through twenty colonial newspapers, including the Maryland Gazette. While the overwhelming majority of the runaways named were from Maryland, the author includes out-of-state fugitives when the papers refer to...
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    46,04 €

  • Drinks Hard, and Swears Much
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    By one estimate, between 350,000 and 500,000 colonists came to America as compulsory laborers. Some came as indentured servants, others as convicts. The transportation of servants into Maryland, in particular, reached its height in the middle of the 18th century, while convicts arrived there in ever-increasing numbers prior to the onset of the American Revolution. For the inves...
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    46,11 €

  • He Loves a Good Deal of Rum. Military Desertions During the American Revolution. Volume One
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    This is the first volume of Mr.Boyle’s new two-volume series, which is nothing less than a complete transcription of all the desertion notices found in 38 newspapers published from Massachusetts to North Carolina from 1775 to 1783. Each notice in 'He Loves a Good Deal of Rum' describes the individual by physical features, his place of birth or last residence, occupation, compan...
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    52,41 €

  • He Loves a Good Deal of Rum. Military Desertions During the American Revolution. Volume Two
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    This is the second volume of Mr.Boyle’s new two-volume series, which is nothing less than a complete transcription of all the desertion notices found in 38 newspapers published from Massachusetts to North Carolina from 1775 to 1783. Each notice in 'He Loves a Good Deal of Rum' describes the individual by physical features, his place of birth or last residence, occupation, compa...
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    52,59 €

  • What Can’t Brave Americans Endure?
    Boyle / Joseph Lee Boyle
    This marks Joseph Lee Boyle’s second book dedicated to resurrecting the identities of the heroes of the six-month encampment of the Continental Army at Valley Forge in 1777-1778. His previous volume, 'Fire, Cake, and Water,' identifies the Connecticut soldiers who were among the 30,000 individuals whose names appear on the surviving monthly muster and payroll records for the be...
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    27,47 €

  • Death Seem’d to Stare
    Boyle / Joseph Lee Boyle
    'Death Seem’d to Stare' marks Joseph Lee Boyle’s third book honoring the identities of the heroes of the six-month encampment at Valley Forge in 1777-1778. The core of this book consists of an alphabetical list in excess of 2,500 New Hampshire and Rhode Island soldiers abstracted from Revolutionary War muster and payrolls. Each patriot is identified by name, rank, date, and ter...
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    30,78 €

  • Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never ...
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    23,44 €

  • Their Distress is Almost Intolerable
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Elias Boudinot, a prominent attorney in New Jersey, was appointed the first Commissary General of Prisoners by George Washington on April 1, 1777. Though reluctant to take the assignment, he did accept, and wrote his wife he was drawn into 'the boisterous ...
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    18,38 €

  • Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never ...
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    21,31 €

  • Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never ...
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    26,17 €

  • From Redcoat to Rebel
    Joseph Lee Boyle / Thomas Sullivan
    Chronicles several years in the life of Thomas Sullivan, who enlisted in the British Army in 1775, fought in the Revolution, and deserted to join American forces in 1778. The journal covers about three and a half years. Sullivan participated in events inc 3 ...
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    23,25 €

  • Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never ...
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    20,33 €

  • Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never ...
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    20,33 €

  • Writings from the Valley Forge Encampment of the Continental Army
    Joseph Lee Boyle
    Hundreds of letters and documents written at Valley Forge have been published in collections that represent the best-remembered men of the Revolution. There are also documents of uncounted numbers by lesser officers and staff functionaries that have never ...
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    21,96 €