Partially printed document, signed, appointing Ezra Wood captain of a military company of foot in ye town of Upton ... whereof Artemas Ward ... is Colonel : Boston, 1 July 1762

Partially printed document, signed, appointing Ezra Wood captain of a military company of foot in ye town of Upton ... whereof Artemas Ward ... is Colonel : Boston, 1 July 1762

Commission

Boston 1762

[1] p. ; 33 cm. (mounted0

MSS L1992.1.536

At bottom: By His Excellency's command, Jno. Cotton Dep: Sery. Cotton later became Secretary to the Stamp Act Congress.|With seal at upper left.|Page [2] is probably blank.

At head of document: Francis Bernard, Esq., Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over His Majesty's Provice of the Massahusetts Bay in New England, and Vice Admiral of the same ...."
Artemas Ward was appointed regimental colonel of the 3rd Regiment of the militias of Middlesex and Worcester counties in 1757. He later served on the colonists' side and commanded Massachusetts troops of the Continental Line.
One Ezra Wood of Worcester County, Mass.,probably this one, later served as a colonel of the Massachusetts militia from 1775 to 1779. At this time he was acting as colonel of a regiment raised for eight months, which served from May 1778 to February 1779.

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