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Sampson, Crocker, ?-1823 [Additional charges against Thomas D. Freeman and James Sawyer]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.196 Author/Creator: Sampson, Crocker, ?-1823 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: 10 February 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Lieutenant Sampson sends Major Lemuel Trescott, both of the 7th Massachusetts Regiment, charging Lieutenant Freeman with "breaking his arrest by wearing or appearing in publick Company with a Sword or Hanger" and Ensign Sawyer with "endeavoring in an Underhanded Manner to draw me from my Quarters in order to assault & abuse me" and "kicking & abusing me in Capt. Allens Quarters when requested to attend there by Capt. Allen."

Sampson, Crocker, ?-1823
Trescott, Lemuel, 1751-1826

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