Collection Title: Battle of the Brandywine
Dates of Collection: 1776-2006
Box Numbers: 3 boxes
Repositiory: Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, PA
Language: English
1. Battle of Brandywine Folder # A
2. Battle of the Clouds
3. Picture of John Chadd House [Photos transferred to photographic collection]
4. Battle of Brandywine (Doughty, Thomas)
5. Battle of Brandywine (August 31, 1777 to July 7, 1778) [Letters of Major Baurmeister]
6. Battle of Brandywine – Loyalist Records [accounts from P.R.O ms. In London Part 2 (Loyalist records)]
7. Battle of Brandywine “Travels in North America” [Accounts of visit to Battle of Brandywine Site in 1780 by Marquis De Chastellux”]
8. Battle of Brandywine Reminiscence” June 1922
9. Battle of Brandywine Folder #B
10. Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret Essay “A Legend of Brandywine”
11. Battle of Brandywine Folder #C
12. Battle of Brandywine “Brandywine Battlefield’s Summer History Program
13. Battle of Brandywine Folder #D
14. Battle of Brandywine Newspaper Accounts
15. Letter of request for information on Pennsylvania Loyalists of the Revolution
16. Battle of Brandywine Newspaper Articles – 1941 “New Material on the Battle of
Brandywine” Dr. Charles W, Heathcote.
17. Battle of Brandywine, Diary of Lieutenant James McMichael of the Pennsylvania Line, 1776-1778
18. Lafayette’s Headquarters at Battle of Brandywine “Gideon Gilpin Property”
19. Delaware County Historical Society
20. Battle of Brandywine Miscellaneous
21. Head, Liz “Stories of Battle of Brandywine Week Sept 1777
22. Hickman, John – Speech of Battle of Brandywine – September 11, 1860
23. Lippincott’s Magazine – September 1877 Article— “ Brandywine 1777”
24. Montre’sor, John “Journal of Captain John Montre’sor”
25. Battle of the Clouds
26. Pleasants, Henry, Jr. “ The Battle of the Clouds” from “The General Magazine and Historical Chronical” July 1938.
1. Paper by Marr, Mathew J. May 1993
27. Paine, Thomas “Letter to Doctor Franklin”
28. Perrins, Thomas G. “Battle of Brandywine – or – Chadd’s Ford From “The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle” – July 1941
29. Brandywine Day (Program) Sept 11, 1893
30. Battle of Brandywine – Map
31. Battle of Brandywine – Newspaper Accounts from the Burney Collection in the British Museum.. Petitions of Loyalists
32. Letters from a Hessian Mercenary
1. The British in Chester County
33. Serle, Ambrose: American Journal 1776-1778 (extracts)
34. Associated Battalions and Militia of the Revolution [ from PA Archives Series]
35. Battle of Brandywine – Chester County Historical Society – 1915 Celebration Items:
36. Campaign of 1777 from History of the United States by Emma Willard 1829
37. Revolutionary Sermon Delivered to the American Army September 10, 1777 by the Rev. Jacob Troute.
38. Washington’s Headquarters at the Battle of Brandywine: a Reconstruction of the Benjamin Ring Farm – Masters Thesis of Margaret Munier
39. Battle of Brandywine – George Washington Papers and Correspondence in Library of Congress – Supplement to Microfilm – Presented by Marwood Darlington –December 1950
40. Paper by Mrs. J.T. Rothrock “Brandywine, Paoli and Valley Forge”
41. 150th Anniversary of Battle of Brandywine [Letters]
42. Mrs. Frazer’s Philadelphia Campaign” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society – contains discussion of the Battle of Brandywine
43. Dairy (parts 1 & 4) of Archibald Robertson, Lt General Royal British Engineers 1762 – April 1777
44. Dairy (parts 5 & 6) of Archibald Robertson, Lt General Royal British Engineers – March 1776 – April 1777
45. Dairy (parts 7 & 8) of Archibald Robertson, Lt General Royal British Engineers – May 1777 – April 1778
46. Dairy (parts 9 & 10) of Archibald Robertson, Lt General Royal British Engineers – Campaigns 1779-1780.
47. Sullivan , Thomas (Sergeant H.M. 49th Regiment of Foot) from Brandywine to Philadelphia [ Diary]
48. A Sermon preached on the eve of the Battle of the Brandywine.. Trout, Rev Joab [From Collections of the Historical Society of PA]
49. 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Brandywine [press invitations]
50. 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Brandywine – Police, Parking, Ammunition – Letters of request.
51. 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Brandywine – Airship Los Angelos and Troops – Letters of request.
52. Manuscript Sources on the Revolutionary War
53. 175th Battle of the Brandywine September 11, 1952
54. 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Brandywine – Notes and Program September 1927
55. 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Brandywine – West Chester Committee – September 1927 [ Letters detailing of time schedule and program]
56. 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Brandywine – September 1927 letters of planning activities and program.
57. Civilian Damages in Birmingham Township – Battle of Brandywine Sept. 1777 Paper by Patricia Stokes and Edward Miller – Fall 1975 [ reference to CCHS Exhibit of Fall 1975]
58. Washington’s Army in Delaware in the Summer of 1777, An Address by John P. Nields, Sept. 9, 1927 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Brandywine
59. Magazine of American History – Washington’s Letters – Published February 1879.
60. Washington’s Own Story of his defeat at the Brandywine.
61. Battle of Brandywine documents and references in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Copied by Anne Cook, Oct. 1989]
62. Historical Society of Berks County Article: 33rd Pilgrimage of Battle of Brandywine and campsites of the continental army in 1777.
63. Pamphlet: The Perkiomen Region [Article – From Brandywine to Valley Forge] (2 copies)
64. Pamphlet: The Battle of Brandywine with its lines of Battle The Old Flag’s Baptism of Fire etc.
65. Pamphlet: The Battle of the Brandywine” by Charles William Heathcote 1923
66. Article: “Controversial Brandywine” by Henry Pleasants Jr. – 1952
67. Pamphlet: The field of Brandywine” by Miss Leslie 1838
68. Pamphlet: “The Battle of the Brandywine – address by Victor C. Mather Map: Brandywine Battlefield District 1922
69. Pamphlet: 150th Anniversary of the Battle of the Brandywine [ Address by Charles William Heathcote, Ph. D.]
70. Hartvigsen, John M. “The Brandywine Flag.” The Flag Bulletin, No. 186. XXXVIII, 2: 1999, p. 50-68.
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