The 9th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was raised in late October 1776, serving in the Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Army under the command of Colonels James Irvine, Anthony J. Morris and Richard Butler (June 7, 1777-January 15, 1781). The regiment was present during the winter of 1776-1777 at Valley Forge and participated in the Philadelphia Campaign (Brandywine and Germantown), subsequently playing an important role at Monmouth. One of the units that resisted the mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line, the regiment was merged with the 5th Pennsylvania during the reorganization of the Continental Army in January, 1781.

An orderly book for Capt. Thomas Bartholomew Bowen's company of the 9th Pennsylvania Infantry while stationed at Totoway, New Jersey, October 12-November 11, 1780. The book, which appears to have been kept by Sgt. John McGriff, contains a roster of soldiers in Bowen's company, copies of regimental and divisional orders, returns of arms and equipment, lists of officers and their duties, and several interesting records of courts martial.

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Cite as: Thomas Bartholomew Bowen Orderly Book, American Philosophical Society.

Catalogued by rsc, 2001.

Additional regimental orderly books for the 9th Pennsylvania include:

Orderly book kept by Cols. Anthony Morris and Richard Butler, 1777-1778, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Collection 1884).

Orderly book kept at Morristown, N.J., December 28, 1779-April 10, 1780, Society of the Cincinnati (MSS L1998F206.5).