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Arrickson, Samuel, fl. 1783 [Testimony of Samuel Arrickson]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02598 Author/Creator: Arrickson, Samuel, fl. 1783 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: circa 27 September 1783 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 30.8 x 18.5 cm. Order a Copy

Samuel Arrickson's [also spelled Arrixson] testimony for the trial of Lieutenant Wheaton. Relates an incident where Wheaton had ordered boots and shoes to be made and refused to pay for them. See GLC02437.02597. Noted as "Taken & Sealed -/On the Charges Against Lt. Wheaton/To be open'd by the Judge Advocate/Before the Court" and "I [Arrickson] Personally apeared Before ... Benjamin Carpenter one of the People's Justice of the Peac[e] for said County the Within Named Samuel Arrixson the 27 day of September 1783 and was favor to the Within Deposition." Signed by Bejamin Carpenter as a witness.

Arrickson, Samuel, fl. 1783
Carpenter, fl. 1783
Wheaton, fl. 1783

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