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[Account of men left sick from the 17th regiment of Captain Ebenezer Bissell's company]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.123 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript Date: 16 August 1776 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 20.5 cm Order a Copy

Lists the men left sick along the road or at Roxbury Hospital when the regiment marched for New York 5 July 1776. Also lists expenses.

Bissell, Ebenezer, 1736-1814

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