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Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819 [Petition to U.S. Senate]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.065.03 Author/Creator: Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819 Place Written: Charlestown, Massachusetts Type: Autograph document signed Date: 1 January 1818 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Petition of representation for Frothingham stating that he served in the United States army during the Revolutionary War as "Sergeant in Capt Chadwick's Company in 1775," then as Sergeant in Colonel Henry Knox's Regiment of Artillery, and finally as Principal Field Commissary of Military Stores of the American Army" until the end of the war. States he has not received the same commutation of land as other officers of the same line received. Requests that he be reimbursed accordingly.

Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819

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