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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02542.32.07 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document signed Date: January 1, 1781 - January 24, 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 31 cm, Width: 19.5 cm Order a Copy

Enlisting for twelve months, from 1781 to 1782, in the Artillery company of Captain William Van Deursen, guarding New Haven. States the enlistment will be invalid if they are not paid "equal to Hard Money." Each man enlisting signed his own name.

Van Deursen, William, 1736-1816

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