The first volume of American Revolutionary War Auditor’s Journals held by the New York State Archives are now available online.
These journals offer a fascinating look at the day-to-day business of a state in the making, documenting payments to civil and military officers, state agents and employees, legislators, and countless others who provided goods and services during and after the Revolution.
The newly digitized records (which had been damaged in the State Library Fire of 1911) document transactions from June 1775 to December 1785, which, along with two already indexed journals illustrate the variety of expenditures and receipts of New York’s government during the Revolutionary War, including reimbursements to average citizens for their contributions to the war effort.
Entries include abstracts of pay and ration rolls for militia officers and private soldiers; accounts for supplies purchased or requisitioned; accounts for soldiers’ back pay or widows’ pensions; accounts for loyalist lands leased or sold; accounts for service by state officers; accounts of port fees, and much more.
The digitization project was funded by the New York State Organization, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
You can find them online here.
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Illustration: Volume 1, page 10 of the Auditor’s Journal, Oct. 20, 1775 (NYS Archives).
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