Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

William Sterrett
MSA SC 3520-16728

Sources:


Archival Sources:

General Mordecai Gist’s Correspondence. 1772-1779.

Pension of John Hughes. National Archives, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land-Warrant Application Files, S 5954, from Fold3.com.

Sterrett, William to James McHenry, 2 April 1778. Maryland Historical Society, MS 1814.


Published Sources:

“Extract of a Letter from New York: Account of the Battle on Long Island,” 1 September 1776, American Archives, series 5, vol. 2, p. 107.

Fisher, David Hackett. Washington's Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

"List of the Names of such Officers as are Prisoners with the Enemy," 5 September 1776, American Archives series 5, vol. 1, p. 1250.

Lowell, E.J. The Hessians and other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War. New York: 1884.

Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the Continental Service, Archives of Maryland Online, vol. 18.

Papenfuse, Edward C., et al., eds. A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635- 1789. Vol II. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1985, p. 772.


Newspapers:

"Baltimore, August 20," Pennsylvania Packet, 25 August 1782.

Maryland Gazette, 12 September 1776.

"Maryland, Baltimore Town, January 29, 1777," Norwich Packet, May 26-June 2 1777.


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