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Root, Jesse, 1737-1822 [Monetary obligation related to raising a Continental battalion]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02427 Author/Creator: Root, Jesse, 1737-1822 Place Written: Connecticut Type: Printed document signed Date: 5 March 1777 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 32 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy

Partly printed document also signed by Ez[echial?] Williams, Elizer Warner and Samuel Barker. Concerns the financial arrangement for Samuel Barker and Elizer Warner to raise (and Warner to serve as Captain of) a Continental battalion for Connecticut during the American Revolution.

Root, Jesse, 1737-1822
Warner, Elizer, fl. 1777
Barker, Samuel, 1739-1807

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