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Appleton, Joseph, fl. 1740-1776 [Invoice of expenses for the Continental Army in Massachusetts]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.218.01 Author/Creator: Appleton, Joseph, fl. 1740-1776 Place Written: Ipswich, Massachusetts Type: Autograph document signed Date: April 1775-13 January 1776 Pagination: 2 p. ; 5.5 x 13 cm. Order a Copy

Mostly for the use of his horse and cart to travel from Ipswich to Cambridge, Massachusetts around the beginning of the American Revolution. Calculations appear on the verso.

Appleton, Joseph, fl. 1740-1776

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