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The Jonathan Chase correspondence series primarily contains the incoming letters of Col. Chase during the American Revolutionary War.

Jonathan Chase's letterbook is largely comprised of copies of records dealing with supplies, food, and money. It also contains letters from Chase, Moses Hazen, Major Jonathan Childs, Jacob Bailey, and Horatio Gates, with content on troop missions and news about the war.

The Documents and Financial Records series contains lists of officers and soldiers recruited and dispatched by Chase, records of military expenses, Chase's official appointments, regimental returns and other lists of soldiers, military records of payments for food, supplies, and soldiers pay, and other items.