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13 August 1776
Townsend, David, 1753-1829
[Attestation of Doctor Dean's health]
Verifies "that Doctor Dean has been innoculated more than three weeks & is free from infection"
GLC01450.195.03
10 February 1783
Sampson, Crocker, ?-1823
[Additional charges against Thomas D. Freeman and James Sawyer]
Lieutenant Sampson sends Major Lemuel Trescott, both of the 7th Massachusetts Regiment, charging Lieutenant Freeman with "breaking his arrest by wearing or appearing in publick Company with a Sword or Hanger" and Ensign Sawyer with "endeavoring in an...
GLC01450.196
17 October 1781
[Summary of troops and equipment surrendered to General Horatio Gates by General John Burgoyne]
An unknown person compiled statistics relative to Burgoyne's surrender to Gates after the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. The scrap of paper is dated in October 1781. Breaks down nationality of the captured soldiers, number of sick and wounded, types and...
GLC01450.197.01
3 June 1783
Hiller, Joseph, 1748-1814
[Customs authorization for John Jacobs and his sloop, the Sally]
Partly printed. Hiller, Collector of Customs for Salem, authorizes Jacobs to take ballast and stores on board. Indicates that the Sally is bound for Saco (present-day Maine).
GLC01450.197.02
1757/08/11
Leonard, Ephraim, 1730-?
[Notice to Joseph Hall, "Captain of a military foot Company in the Town of Taunton"]
In accordance with an order from the Governor of Massachusetts, Colonel Leonard tells Hall to have his company armed and in a state of readiness to march to defend the frontiers of the province from the French and Indians encamped at Fort William...
GLC01450.199.01
7 April 1748
Hathaway, Ebenezer, 1718-1791
[Notice to John Godfrey, a Justice of the Peace for Bristol County, Massachusetts]
Also signed by two witnesses, Joseph Read and James Winslow. Notice of a complaint of Captain Ebenezer Hathaway in regard to two soldiers impressed into his company, Thomas Davis and James Chase, who did not show up for their appointed duty.
GLC01450.199.02
circa 1770-1785
Collection of 5 engravings: John Andre, Rogers, Tarleton, Earl of Loudon & J. Sullivan [Decimalized .01-.05]
GLC01450.201
2 November 1776
Ward, Artemas, 1727-1800
to Ebenezer Hancock
Written by Major General Ward as commander of the Eastern Department (he was succeeded by Major General William Heath in March 1777) to Ebenezer Hancock as Deputy Paymaster General of U.S. forces. Order to pay Thomas Urann, Director of the Carpenter...
GLC01450.202
13 June 1777
[Permission for George Hazard]
Permits George Hazzard to pass Fort Trumbull to Fisher's island. Made out to "The Commandg Officer att Fort Trumbull."
GLC01450.203
15 May 1777
Drury, Jotham, 1741-1831
to
Verifies that Reuben Jager and William Crow enlisted in Drury's artillery company in colonel Crane's regiment. States that both men are "foreners from Irland." Both men were reported as foreigners in other official documents. Jager's name spelled...
GLC01450.204.01
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