In Colonial Williamsburg Manuscript Collections.

Governor of Quebec and commander-in-chief of the British Army in America. Correspondence, orderly books, accounts, regimental returns, lists, payrolls, pay warrants, and other official documents of the British Headquarters in America under Carleton during the American Revolution. Chiefly Carleton's correspondence, but also includes copies of letters sent and received by previous commanders-in-chief; 69 letters by George Washington containing material on the New York campaign around Albany and Saratoga,

military reports on the exchange of prisoners, and the announced sentence of Major John André, convicted as a spy; 36 letters from Lord Cornwallis pertaining to the Battle at Yorktown; many intercepted letters of American generals, which fell into the possession of British headquarters; papers relating to the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga; documents of Comte d'Estaing, Lafayette, Rochambeau, and others, portraying the French side of the American revolution; and information on the Loyalists.

Other correspondents include Jeffrey Lord Amherst, Bendict Arnold, Andrew Barkley, Lord Barrington, John Burgoyne, John Campbell, William Franklin, Horatio Gates, Lord George Germain, Nathanael Greene, John Hancock, William Heath, Charles Lee, Henry Lee, Benjamin Lincoln, Neil McLean, Gouverneur Morris, Lord North, William Phillips, Israel Putnam, Philip Schuyler, the Earl of Shelburne, Thomas Stirling, Banastre Tarleton, and James Wright.

Calendar published by British Historical Manuscripts Commission in Report on American manuscripts in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, edited by Benjamin Franklin Stevens and Henry S. Brown (1904-9)

Gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Microfilm copy (positive).