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Crafts' Continental Artillery Regiment (1776), Continental Army, American Revolution

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Date: 1776 to 1780
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Crafts' Artillery Regiment

This page details the American Revolutionary War record of the Artillery regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Crafts. Please disregard "Continental" in the page name, it was premature.

Time line

  • 1776-03-21 Official letter from said Crafts to Col. Baldwin, dated Chelsea, March 21, 1776, requesting that William Gordon be furnished with a pass and boat to go to Boston; [1]
  • 1776-05-07 "Thos Crafts Lt. Col. to 7 companies of Artillery, George Trett Major" [2] [3]
  • 1776-05-07 Turner Phillips: a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, Turner Phillips was commissioned May 7, 1776, Captain Lieutenant in Colonel Thomas Crafts' Massachusetts regiment of Artillery, and served in Captains Joseph [3]
  • 1776-05-08 official record of a ballot by the House of Representatives dated May 8, 1776; said Crafts chosen Lieutenant Colonel of an Artillery regt. to be raised for defence of Boston; appointment concurred in by Council May 8, 1776; reported commissioned May 8, 1776;[1]
  • 1776-05-08..1776-11-01 Colonel of an Artillery regt.; engaged May 8, 1776; service to Nov. 1, 1776, 5 mos. 24 days; roll dated Boston;[1]
  • 1776-06-13 "on the 13th of June. Detachments from the regiments of Colonels Marshall and Whitney, and a "battalion of train," under Colonel Crafts, provided with cannon, ammunition, and provisions were mustered on Long wharf" [4]
  • 1776-09-10 John Marston: the quartermaster general's departments September 10, 1776, he was commissioned 2 lieutenant of Captain Pereg Cushing's 9 Company of Colonel Thomas Crafts Regiment of train of Artillery [3]
  • 1776-11-27 official record of a ballot by the House of Representatives dated Nov. 27, 1776; said Crafts chosen Colonel of an Artillery regt.; appointment concurred in by Council Nov. 28, 1776; reported commissioned Nov. 27, 1776;[1]
  • 1776-11-01..1777-02-01 Colonel; pay roll for service from Nov. 1, 1776, to Feb. 1, 1777, 3 mos.; reported as serving 1 mo. in Colony service, 2 mos. in Continental service;[1]
  • 1776-11-30 Sgt. Thomas Dunbar in Capt. William Todd's company, stationed at Boston.[5]
  • 1777-01-01..1777-02-26 Colonel of the State train of artillery; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Feb. 26, 1779;[1]
  • 1777 payroll [6]
    • Col. Thomas Crafts
    • Lt.-Col. Paul Revere
    • Major Thomas Melville
    • John Pulling, Conductor of Ordnance
    • Increase Newhall, Adjutant
    • Joseph Gardner, Surgeon
    • Joseph Whipple, Surgeon's Mate
    • John Chalone, Quartermaster
    • Samuel Eddes, Conductor
    • William Russell, Sergeant Major
    • James Ross, Drum Major
    • Henry Sibley, Quartermaster Ser
  • 1777..1780 List of the officers in Col. Crafts' regiment from 1777 to 1780. [6]
    • Captains
      • David Bradley
      • John Bussey
      • Jonathan W. Edes
      • John Gill
      • Winthrop Gray
      • John Ingersoll
      • Phillip Merritt
      • John Pulling
      • Benj. Scollay
      • William Todd
      • Phillip Turner
      • Phillip Turner (Jr.?)
    • Lieutenants.
      • Daniel Bell
      • Ellis Baker
      • Josiah Audbert
      • John Armstrong
      • Joshua Chase
      • Benj. Edes
      • John Grant
      • Daniel Ingersoll
      • William Menzies
      • John Menzies
      • Thomas Prince
      • Samuel Wales
  • 1777 John Bradley, Matross in Capt. John Gill's (4th) co. [7]
  • 1777 Isaiah Leach, Matross in Capt. Joseph Balch's (1st) co.
    • 1777-09-22..25 Camp at Boston: refusal to leave... [7]
  • 1777-04-18 list of officers returned by said Crafts for approval, dated Boston, April 18, 1777;[1]
  • 1777-05 Daniel Lothrop: Capt. Daniel Lothrop's (his father) Company, Colonel Thomas Crafts' Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged May 7, 1777 In May 1777, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant and served as such in Captain Joseph Balch's
  • 1777-09-26 petition signed by said Crafts, asking for clothing; ordered in Council Sept. 26, 1777, that the Board of War deliver the clothing;[1]
  • 1777-09-30..1777-11-01 Colonel; pay roll for service from Sept. 30, 1777, to Nov. 1, 1777, 1 mo., on expedition to Rhode Island;[1]
  • 1777-10-01..1778-01-01 pay roll for service between Oct. 1, 1777, and Jan. 1, 1778, 2 mos., probably at Rhode Island;[1]
  • 1778-01-01..1778-12-31 pay rolls for service from Jan. 1, 1778, to Dec. 31, 1778, dated Boston;[1]
  • 1779-02-26 petition dated Boston, Feb. 26, 1779, signed by said Crafts, Colonel of an Artillery regt., and officers of his regiment, asking that their resignations be accepted as the Legislature had failed to redress their grievances resignations accepted in Council Feb. 26, 1779;[1]
  • 1779-08-26 order of Council dated Aug. 26, 1779, stating that said Col. Crafts had accepted command of Castle Island during the absence of Lieut. Col. Paul Revere, and as he had returned, directing that said Revere resume command of the Island, and thanking Col. Crafts for his readiness in accepting such temporary command.[1]

Research

  • Isaac Phillips, Lieutenant in Colonel Thomas Crafts' Massachusetts regiment of Artillery, and served in Captains Joseph Balch's and Thomas Melville's companies... [3]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War
  2. ↑ United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 National Archives
  4. ↑ A history of East Boston
  5. ↑ Sources in profile referenced.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Crafts Family
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783
  • Daughters of the American Revolution; Lineage book;
    • Vol. 21, p. 32 "John Henry Riedell, (1742-97), served in the artillery under Col. Thomas Craft, 1775-77"
  • Sumner, William Hyslop), 1780-1861; A history of East Boston; 1858, Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company; p. 396
  • United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783, database with images, FamilySearch
  • "United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL65-2ZN2 : 20 February 2021), Thos Crafts, 07 May 1776; citing 07 May 1776, Massachusetts, United States, citing NARA microfilm publication M246. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Services, 1980. FHL microfilm 830,321.
  • Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1859; Historical collections of the Essex institute, vol. xiii, p. 115-34 regiment orderly book covering from 1777-06-08 to 1777-08-04
  • Goss, Elbridge Henry, 1830-1908; The life of Colonel Paul Revere; Boston, J.G. Cupples, 1891;
  • https://founders.archives.gov/search/Author%3A%22Crafts%2C%20Thomas%20Jr.%22
    • “To John Adams from Thomas Crafts Jr., 16 December 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-03-02-0189. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 3, May 1775 – January 1776, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979, pp. 366–367.]
    • letter to John Adams expressing disappointment at appointment of Knox rather than him
    • “To John Adams from Thomas Crafts, 25 June 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-05-02-0141. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 5, August 1776 – March 1778, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006, pp. 233–234.]
    • “To John Adams from Thomas Crafts, Jr., 17 May 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-20-02-0199. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 20, June 1789–February 1791, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, Neal E. Millikan, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020, pp. 351–352.]




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