Muster Roll of the field & staff officers in the Regiment of Foot commanded by Henry Sherburne : taken from 1st Oct.... : Bristol, Nov. 28, 1778

Muster Roll of the field & staff officers in the Regiment of Foot commanded by Henry Sherburne : taken from 1st Oct.... : Bristol, Nov. 28, 1778

Bristol, [Mass.] 1778

[2] p. ; 20 cm. x 33 cm.

MSS L1977.28 M MB

Signed at bottom of p. [1]: I. [or J or T] Green D.M.M.
On verso: Proof of the effectives Grid showing those present, absent, and total is not fillled in.
Also on verso, H. Shuburn's certification "that the within muster roll is a true state of the field & staff officers in the Regiment ...."
This regiment was one of the sixteen "Additional Regiments" created 12 January 1777. In July, 1778, it was relieved from the 1st Connecticut Brigade and assigned to the Rhode Island Brigade -- see R. K. Wright. The Continental Army, p. 324.
Inclues 7 names: Henry Sherburne, Col.; William Bradford, Major; Ensign Thomas Russell Act'g as Adjutant; Henry Whitney, Pay Master; Asa Lyon, Quartermaster; Joseph B. Wadsworth Surgeon; Elihu Bissell, Surgeon's mate.
Sherburne and Bradford were original members of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.
Asa Lyon was an original member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati
Partly torn away, affecting some text at upper portion of leaf.

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