10 November 1777

Carter, Jonathan, fl. 1777

Autograph document signed

Title: [Petition against Articles of Convention]

Petition signed by 13 British officers and subalterns in the Royal Regiment of Artillery captured at the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777. Probably sent to General John Burgoyne. Claims the Americans have not followed through on the stipulations of the Articles of Convention, the document that delineated the terms of General John Burgoyne's surrender to the Americans. Claims they have not been quartered properly and that their conditions "Compell Us to Decline Our Assent to the Parole, 'till the Articles We think Incompatible with Our Situations in Life to Submitt to, are Alterd."

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circa September 1777

Carter, Jonathan, fl. 1777

Document signed

Title: Return of Officers of the detachment of the Royal Regt of Artillery that come under the discription of the Kings order given out by Sir Guy Carlton the 9th of May 1777

Signed by Carter as a Captain in the Royal Artillery sometime after the Battle of Freeman's Farm in the Saratoga campaign. Lists the death of Captain Thomas Jones who died in action on 19 September 1777. Says he is survived by a wife.

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