Proprietary Government, Executive Correspondence of the Provincial Council, Numbers 222-418, July 31, 1734-October 2, 1745, 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., Arranged chronologically by date of correspondence. Correspondence, petitions, reports, election returns, Governors' messages, ships' lists, appointments, warrants, passports and related records relating to the local affairs of government within the Province. Included are about twenty muster rolls and military returns (on Microfilm Rolls 580-587) relating to the French and Indian War providing such types of information as name and rank of soldier, the military unit or station to which attached and the name of the officer under whom he served. Occasionally, the soldier's date and place of enlistment, age, and brief physical description may also be found. All of these muster rolls and military returns have been published in the Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume 1 (Microfilm Roll 2069) and images of the originals appear on Microfilm Rolls 580-587. To locate a particular French and Indian War soldier in the Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume 1, consult the index for the entire Fifth Series that is in the Sixth Series, Volume 15 (Microfilm Rolls 2068-2069). For related military records see also Military Manuscripts Collection, 1758-1931 (MG-7), the Pennsylvania Collection, 1626-1970 (MG-8), the Sequestered Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan Papers, 1725-1827 (MG-19), the Burd-Shippen Family Collection, 1715-1834 ((MG-30), the Edward Shippen Collection, 1684-1941 (MG-193), and the Bucher-Hummel Family Collection, 1763-1963 (MG-382). Disclaimer: The Pennsylvania State Archives provides digital access to a wide variety of historical documents, some of which may be considered offensive by current standards. The Archives does not endorse views expressed in these historical collections, but presents these collections to aid in scholarly research.
