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18 March 1779
Mitchell, Nathan, 1729-1789
[Attestation for Ebenezer Burgus]
Certifies that Burgus was a "minute man in my Company" was "aquited agreable" in battle and is owed eight schillings.
GLC01450.195.01
July 1781
Ingersoll, Joseph, fl. 1781
[Accounts for Joseph Ingersoll]
Lists payments by "Joseph Ingresoll & Co." to various men. Each man signs attesting that he has recieved money from Ingersoll for various reasons. The payments include buying a number of ships at auction. The ships were the "sloop Bazil...Ship...
GLC01450.195.02
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
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