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79. Camp à White-Marsh, le 11 Septembre, 15 miles de Bush-Town, undated

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Thirty-third Camp at White Marsh. 11 September 1781. Two brigades, including the artillery, are shown. The distances noted in the headings of this and the following map indicate that this so-called White Marsh camp was 15 miles from Bush and 10 miles from the next camp in Baltimore. This would place the camp some 3 miles southwest of White March Forges (where the army camped on its northbound march in 1782, as shown on map, No. 131). The site was probably along the old Philadelphia road (State Route 7) near the corner of present Mohrs Lane. The stream shown on the map is a branch of White Marsh Run. The building across the road from the camp may be the mansion house of White Marsh Plantation, headquarters of the Nottingham Company, which managed the iron works at White Marsh Forges—or perhaps a tavern. Clermont-Crèvecœur (p. 54) places the camp at a "Tavern," which he does not identify by name.

Arrangement

The documents and maps are arranged chronologically by packet/item number that continue (for the most part) the numbering begun in the previous series.

General

These papers are housed in the original red portfolio cases (and order) in which they were presented to the Library in 1939.

Collection History

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Processing Information

This collection was word-processed by Anna Bialek in July and August of 2005. Finding aid written by Howard Rice in 1957.

During 2022, restrictions for this collection were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.

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Credit this material:

79. Camp à White-Marsh, le 11 Septembre, 15 miles de Bush-Town; Louis-Alexandre Berthier Collection, C0022, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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Storage Note:
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Separated Materials

Relation de l'Escadre Française, aux ordres du Cher. Destouches, & de l'affaire qui a eue lieu le 16 Mars 1781, entre cette Escadre & celle des Anglais, commandée par l'Amiral Arbuthnot was transferred to rare books (1081.755 EX).

Bibliography

MS, No 21-33. Rochambeau's copy is in the Library of Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia. [Rice/Brown, p. 153]

Names:
France. Armée
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur,‏ comte de,‏ 1725-1807‏