Winthrop Ballantine papers, 1783-1785

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.