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Diary of Walter Finney: 1782-1783

MLA citation style
Finney, W. “Diary Of Walter Finney: 1782-1783”. no date. 2005.5001.106, 1782.
APA citation style
Finney, W. (1782). Diary of Walter Finney: 1782-1783. 2005.5001.106. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A273706
Chicago citation style
Finney, Walter. “Diary Of Walter Finney: 1782-1783”. 2005.5001.106, Chester County History Center - Walter Finney Diary Collection, 1782. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A273706.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Title

Diary of Walter Finney: 1782-1783

Subject

Finney, Walter, 1748-1820
Farmers--Pennsylvania--Chester County
United States--Army--Military life
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
South Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Georgia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Slavery

Description

The second diary (February 1782 – June 1783) finds Walter Finney in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia during the Revolution. Themes in the first diary—particularly camp life, topographical comments, and troop movements—carry over into the second. Relating to camp life, he notes one particularly stern punishment of the troops involved Sergeant Gessner, who was executed for promoting mutiny. In June of 1782, he noted thoughts on the arability of South Carolina. Slavery garnered his attention: “Labour of all kinds, mechanical as well as Agriculture, is parform’d by Negroes, this policy being still thought best, evry exertion is Us’d to increase their numbers, it is not uncommon for one man to own Fifty working negroes at once.” Joseph Lee Boyle, a military historian who worked at Valley Forge Historical Park for more than a dozen years, transcribed the first two volumes of Finney’s diaries and published them with commentary in New Jersey History, vol. 121, nos. 1-4, 2003, pp. 23-81 and South Carolina Historical Magazine, vol. 98, no. 2, 1997, pp. 126-152.

Creator

Finney, Walter

Date

1782-1783

Location Covered

Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

Type

Text

Original Format

Diaries

Digital Format

application/pdf

Identifier

2005.5001.106.2

Source

2005.5001.106

Language

English

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Contributing Institution

Chester County History Center

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.