The Research Room

A Partial and Growing List of Documents in pdf Format

ROSTERS

Staff and Organization

Henry Dearborn's Company

Ward's Company

Oliver Colburn's Company

CASUALTIES

British Casualties

Handchett's Company

Smith's Company

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS

Arnold's Letters

Simon Fobes' Journal

William Hendricks' Journal

John Henry's Memoirs (5 mb)

James Melvin's Journal

Mathias Ogden's Journal

Isaac Senter's Journal (5.8 mb)

Simeon Thayer's Journal (3.5 mb)

INSIDE QUEBEC

Hugh Finlay's Journal (3 mb)

Journal From Inside Quebec

BOOKS WRITTEN

Codman: Arnold's Expedition To Quebec (4.8 MB)

Smith: Arnolds March From Cambridge to Quebec (3.8 mb)

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

"The Prologue of the American Revolution" by Justin Smith. Century Illustrated Magazine, 1903. (1 mb)

"Account of Arnold's Expedition" by William Allen. Maine Historical Society Collections, Vol. 1, 1865.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

1905 Article from the Massachusetts Ploughman and New England Journal of Agriculture, describing the discovery of an anchor on the bottom of the Kennebec possibly from Arnold's fleet.

1905 Washington Post article on the same anchor discovery.

COLBURN HOUSE

NRHP Nomination
Application for Inclusion of Colburn House on the National Register of Historic Places

Memories of My Childhood
Recollections of Bertha A. Colburn who lived in the Colburn House

1915 Boston Globe article describes many old relics in the house

1940 Article from the Christian Science Monitor describes the house

OTHERS

Court Martial of Lieutenant Colonel Roger Enos

Journal of John Montressor, British engineer, written while he created the maps later used by Arnold.

Speech by Frances Flitner at the dedication of the Arnold Plaque at the Colburn House, August 28, 1913. (2 mb)

Family Lost on Dead River - An interesting story related to the expedition.

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