Connecticut Militia A.D.S., [White Plains], Nov. 12 - Dec. 11, 1776

Connecticut Militia A.D.S., [White Plains], Nov. 12 - Dec. 11, 1776

Receipt

[White Plains, N.Y.] 1776

1 oblong sheet, folded ; 17 x 42 cm.

MSS L1988.190.288

In an unidentified hand|Probably a portion of a larger account of monies distributed to Capt. Edward Rogers' Company, part of General Gay's Regiment, Wadsworth's Battalion of Connecticut State Troops.|Some entries list reimbursement for such supplies as beer, butter, cheese, hay, meal, potatoes, and rum.|Most of the entries record "to cash paid himself" by enlisted men in Captain Rogers' Company, 2d battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade of Connecticut State troops: Nathaniel Bristol, Aaron Brown[well], John Curtis, John and William Fellows, Samuel Franklin, Elijah Forbes, Asa and Cornelius Hamlin, Justice Johnson, Daniel Potter, Timothy Rowley, George and John White, Jacob and Samuel WIlliams. Corporal John Tharp belonged to Captain Stanley's company of the same brigade. Record of Connecticut men in the military and naval service during the ... Revolution, pp. 396-397.|Other entries record discharges of Isaac Cool and Jonathan Bliss, 19 Nov. 1776; and Peter Tooly [Toole?], December 11, 1776 as well as the death of David Franklin, Nov. 15, 1776.|Entry for Nov. 22, 1776: "Rec'd Qu.t M. [Elijah] Lewis money for sauce butter & bear [sic] from August 19 to Sept. 2d 1776" 9 pounds, 0 shillings, 5 pence.|Elijah Lewis was the regimental quartermaster of Gay's Connecticut State Regiment, June to December, 1776 -- Heitman. Historical register, p. 348.|Vertical chain lines

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