Middletown (R.I.)

This series consists of records kept in the office of successive individual General Treasurers. The earliest set of records is from the office of Joseph Clark, General Treasurer between 1761 and 1792. Also included are records that span the years 1840-1859 for the following General Treasurers: Stephen Cahoone, of Newport (1840 – 1843) and (1843 – 1851); Edwin Wilbur, of Newport (1851 – 1854), and Samuel B. Vernon, of Newport (1854 – 1855; 1855-1866)

Map of the Island of RI (Aquidneck Island) showing the distribution of British and American troops during the Battle of Rhode Island, August 1778. Hand-drawn and colored. Also 2 negatives from photographs of the map. Photographs and photocopies of the map. Also reproductions of a British map of the same battle.