Booklet

Title:

Orderly Book kept by Jeremiah Fogg. Siege of Boston 1775-76

Object Name:

Booklet

Creator:

Jeremiah Fogg

Date:

1903

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-4.75 L-21 Dia-7 inches

Description:

Booklet, 1903 Reprint of the "Orderly Book / Kept by / Jeremiah Fogg / Adjutant Second New Hampshire Regiment / Siege of Boston / 1775-76."
Reprinted from the Exeter News-Letter, 1903.

Provenance:

Jeremiah Fogg's orderly book contains information of his experience during the American Revolution, specifically the Siege of Boston from October 1775 to January 1776. His book has been recopied several times. This one owned by the Society of the Cincinnati in New Hampshire was reprinted in 1903 in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Orderly Books are a wealth of information on day-to-day activities of the military. They were used very frequently during the 1700s and early 1800s when there was no mass communication available to commanders and their troops. Their main purpose was to be a record of information and orders from high ranking commanders to lower units. But these books also provide a list of names of unit members, troop movements, cort martial procedures, supplies, and troop moral. At one point there would have been thousands of these books, but today only a few are known to have survived.

Jeremiah Fogg (1749-1808) was born in Kensington, New Hampshire. He graduated from Harvard College and became a teacher in Newport, but when tensions between the Colonies and Britain escalated he became a member of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment, moving up the ranks to become a Major under Colonel Enoch Poor. After the war, Fogg returned to New Hampshire were he became a member of the New Hampshire Senate.

Subjects:

Books, Booklets, Military, Military life, Military personnel, Documents

People:

Fogg, Jeremiah

Place of Origin:

Exeter, New Hampshire

Collection Name:

Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire

Item Number:

2011.126

Accession Number:

2011.126

Type of Material:

Objects

Copyright Statement:

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Participating Organization:

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