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Sumner, Job, 1754-1789 [Muster of soldiers]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09813 Author/Creator: Sumner, Job, 1754-1789 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Manuscript document signed Date: January 1784 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 37.7 x 29.5 cm Order a Copy

Signed by Major J[ob] Sumner and Lt. William Linn. A roll of mustered out solders from Captain Elisha Hopkins' company from October 1783 to January 1784. City and state written from was taken from the docket.

Hopkins, Elisha, fl. 1776-1783

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