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[Three Revolutionary War receipts]

Dated 20 July 1775 (from Massachusetts), 23 August 1776 (from New York), and 2 January 1778 (from Massachusetts).

GLC01450.227

Documents dated: 1778/06/09, 1778/04 and 1779/01/14 [Decimalized .01- .03]

See decimalized entries.

GLC01450.228

[Receipt for mileage]

Receipt written by Captain Titcomb for moving his company of 53 men. The company was in Colonel Jacob Garrish's regiment. Titcomb's men were stationed at Winter Hill, which is outside Boston, to guard the Convention Army, which consisted of captured...

GLC01450.228.01

[Recpeit for wages]

Signed by Chapman and six other members of the company of Captain Oliver Titcomb. They were in Colonel Jacob Garrish's regiment. Receipts asks Titcomb for payment of their wages of over 28 pounds. Signed note by Chapman on verso states he received...

GLC01450.228.02

[Recpeit for wages]

Lieutenant Poor's receipt for the Continental and State wages paid to him and five other men in Captain Oliver Titcomb's company. Receipt says they were in Colonel Cogswell's regiment. The receipt totals 407 dollars.

GLC01450.228.03

Tool list and Debt notice for Oliver Titcomb's regiment [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC01450.229

[The account of the mens tool that are discharged in Capt Oliver Titcomb Company]

List of soldiers and the tools they have been given. All but one man listed given an ax, other tools include "spike gimblet," "adds," "chizel," and "caulking irons." Skenesborough, spelled Skeensborough in this document, is now Whitehall, New York...

GLC01450.229.01

[Debt notice]

Informs the members of Oliver Titcomb's regiment that, while staying in Gerrish's regiment's barracks they caused six pounds sixteen schillings damage, and General Heath has ordered him to remove this money from their pay. Addressed to "Gentleman...

GLC01450.229.02

[Three Revolutionary War receipts for soldiers' pay]

Dated 27 January 1779, 28 December 1780 and 31 December 1778

GLC01450.230

[Seven Revolutionary War receipts and documents] [Decimalized .01- .07]

Dated 28 December 1777, 11 July 1778, 11 July 1778, 9 January 1779, 19 March 1779, 24 February 1780, and 29 Sptember [no year].

GLC01450.231

to Bartholome Smith

GLC01450.231.01

to Captain Oliver Fetcomb

GLC01450.231.02

to unknown

GLC01450.231.03

to Captain Oliver Fitcomb

GLC01450.231.04

to Captain Oliver Fitcomb

GLC01450.231.05

to Captain Oliver Fitcomb

GLC01450.231.06

to unknown

GLC01450.231.07

[Receipt for hiring a whale boat during the French and Indian War]

Tallies various charges, including hiring the boat "to got to the Relief of St. Georges when attacked by the French and Indians."

GLC01450.232.01

[Receipt for $1040 received from Theodore Sedgwick]

Money paid for the purchase of 1040 bushels of wheat.

GLC01450.232.02

[Receipt for sixteen shillings received from Captain Wallingford]

Money paid for "Mr. Meturen Rickers Rates for the year 1774."

GLC01450.232.03

[Permission for Samuel Barron "to come to Staeton Island"]

GLC01450.232.04

to Elbridge Gerry

Docketed in Elbridge Gerry's hand. Reminds Gerry that he has an "appointment upon a Committee to devise ways & means to supply the treasury to pay this Commonwealth's Quota of the army and other Exigencies of Government." This committee is to sit...

GLC01450.233

to Elbridge Gerry

Wendell asks Gerry to use his political influence to help place him in a number of governmental positions. Says that he is confident he can attain the position of "Vendue Master" if Gerry can get him a favorable letter from the President. Also...

GLC01450.234

to Elbridge Gerry

On Gerry's advice, Freeman and his regiment "have applied to Court to consider our losses at Falmouth," in the hopes the court would petition Congress. The court refuses, and feels it might seem "selfish" to do such a thing. Discusses trouble...

GLC01450.235

to Benjamin Hewins

Worries that some back home believe he has defected to the British side. Feels he has "as good a right as others" to the "town Bounty" this year, and asks Hewins to obtain the money and send it to him. Letter addressed to Hewins as "Treasurer of the...

GLC01450.236