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Clapp, Jonathan, ?-1815 [Return of Major Jonathan Clapp's Regiment]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.435.01 Author/Creator: Clapp, Jonathan, ?-1815 Place Written: Moses Creek, New York Type: Document signed Date: 23 July 1777 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 23.1 cm, Width: 35 cm Order a Copy

Docketed 19 March 1779 by David Lyman. Lyman states that Captain [Hampten?] is to pay John Lyman $50, and to charge the sum to David Lyman. Contains several other dockets, notes, and mathematical figures on verso.

Clapp, Jonathan, -1815
Lyman, David, fl. 1779-1789

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