| Description | Compilation of documents relating to the administering of the 65th Regiment, the financial cost and personal costs incurred, and official and private correspondence, the majority of which date from 1787-1798. Includes Bygrave's warrant appointing him Major in the 65th, 2 Sep 1795; bank statements; bills for lengths of cloth, items of clothing, hairdressing, weapons and articles of uniform; statements of account; hair powder duty certificate; weekly staff distributions for Major Maddison's Company at Richmond; guard reports; lists of recruits; accounts for the cost of recruiting and subsistence of recruits marching to Pontefract. The letters [several with impressed seals attached] mention orders placed for guns and boots, unpaid bills, requests and receipts for drafts of money received from Bygrave, personnel joining the Regiment, fines for townships that have not massed enough men for the Army and Navy, an aquaintance joining the frigate Pearl to sail to America and his life as a midshipman, news of friends in Quebec, invitations to social events, setting up a game shoot, applications (by others) to Prince Edward to help gain promotion, lack of a regimental order regarding wearing lapels unbuttoned, the N.C.O.s and men donating a weeks' pay to the Government to assist in defeating the enemy. Also includes an index to documents and Bygrave's service history, written in 1954, and two letters dated 1959 discussing the documents recently added to this group by Col. P.S. Newton. |