Pay order to the officers and soldiers of the 5th Connecticut Regiment, Hartford, 15 August 1780

Pay order to the officers and soldiers of the 5th Connecticut Regiment, Hartford, 15 August 1780

Payroll

Hartford 1780

1 item ; 41 x 34 cm.

MSS L2001F25 M

On verso: 1457 Order. Col. Philip B. Bradley and others of the 5th Connecticut Regt... Receipted and signed on verso by William Henshaw, Paymaster, 5th Connecticut, 24 Aug. 1780 Names 164 officers and men in 3 columns, whose pay for the unspecified period totals 11 thousand pounds, 19 shillings, and 8 pence The 5th Connecticut was from 16 Nov. 1779 part of the 2nd Connecticut Brigade which was assigned to the Main Army until 27 Nov. 1780. Bradley and Henshaw were original members of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati; other original members named include Daniel Bradley, Albert and Elijah Chapman, Samuel Hait, Jonathan Johnson, Thaddeus Keeler, Cornelius Russell, John Simpson, and Thadeus Weed. Watermark: Britannia and countermark GR
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