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- GLC#
- GLC02437.02657-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 15 October 1783
- Author/Creator
- Jackson, Michael, 1734-1801
- Title
- [Certificate to Lewis Campbell]
- Place Written
- West Point, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 19.4 cm, Width: 16.1 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Certificate verifying the admission of Lewis Campbell, a soldier in the first New Jersey Regiment guarding George Washington, to the hospital "for the cure of a wound received thro' his body ..." Lewis was wounded at King's Bridge and sent to the hospital at Robinson's Farm. Page one is signed by William Eustis (Hospital Surgeon), Jackson (Colonel of the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment) and David Townsend (Hospital Surgeon). Page two, a certification of Campbell's service and wound received, is written and signed by Caleb Gibbs.
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