University of Wyoming
Winthrop Ballantine was born on June 13, 1762, in Westfield, Massachusetts. It is unclear from his journal, but he may have been either a physician or an assistant to George Washington during the Revolutionary War.
The Newburgh Conspiracy took place in 1783 when a group of soldiers of the Continental Army lost faith in the Continental Congress and its ability to compensate them. It was resolved by Congress that the army would continue to have unshaken confidence in it, and, in return, Congress promised that it would not disband without first settling the payment of all the soldiers in full for their service.
Collection contains a journal and copies of the journal which consists of letters and general orders from George Washington (signed by himself) to his troops concerning morale during the events leading up to the Newburgh Conspiracy; Congressional resolutions concerning the payment of Continental Army troops at the conclusion of the conspiratorial events; letters of congratulations and elation at the victory of the Revolutionary War of Independence; letters from Ballantine to military leaders concerning the formation of the Society of Cincinnatus (a social organization for Revolutionary War soldiers); an invoice for various medicines and medicinal ingredients such as opium, camphor, myrrh, gum Arabic, aloe, ammonium, and silver nitrate; medicinal recipes such as an antimony diaphoretic, aromatic bitters, colic drops, elixirs for the uterus, asthma, and vitriol, unguents such as for the digestive system, tinctures including that of myrrh, laudanum liquor, panacea antimony, and for the mixture of writing ink.
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This material was received from Barbara Loeffler in 1994.
There are no known other archival collections created by Winthrop Ballantine at the date of processing.
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