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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of William Torrey, Continental Army officer, were deposited in the Library of Congress by the United States Army War College in 1916.
The papers of William Torrey were arranged and described in 1976. The finding aid was revised in 2009.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of William Torrey is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The Torrey Papers are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
A microfilm edition of these papers is available on three reels. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, William Torrey Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
William Torrey, born circa 1751, died 1828, from Hanover, Massachusetts, was a soldier and army officer in the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the company of Minute Men at Lexington, April 19, 1775; a sergeant in Bailey’s Massachusetts Regiment, May to December 1875; first lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Regiment as of January 1777; and became regimental adjutant in March 1778. He served in the American cause until June 1783.
The papers of William Torrey (1751?-1828), span the years 1777-1904, with the bulk from 1777 to 1783. The collection consists of orderly books of the Second Massachusetts Regiment, September 6, 1777 to May 31, 1783, kept primarily by Torrey while serving as a Continental Army officer during the Revolutionary War. Included are general, division, brigade, and regimental orders issued at Danbury and Hartford, Connecticut; Middlebrook, New Jersey; and Saratoga, White Plains, West Point, and New Windsor, New York. Also in the collection are a muster roll of the regiment, a memorandum book containing returns, Continental Congress resolves, and miscellaneous material. A list of the volumes with notations by A. A. Folsom, 1904, precedes the collection.
The volumes are arranged in a numerical sequence that is largely chronological.
Available on microfilm, Shelf no. 16,859