Roll of the officers and soldiers in Captain Samuel Page's Company, Col. Tuppers batalion, Massachusetts Bay forces : which were in camp on or before the 15th day of August, 1777 ...

Roll of the officers and soldiers in Captain Samuel Page's Company, Col. Tuppers batalion, Massachusetts Bay forces : which were in camp on or before the 15th day of August, 1777 ...

[Saratoga?] 1777

[2] pages, folded ; 40 x 31 cm.

MSS L1993.1.370

Also on verso is certification of the roll.|The 11th Massachusetts took part in the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, but the place of this document's collection is uncertain because Buxton did not file it for 2 years.|Lists in columnar form 47 officers and men, their rank and status.|Officers in addition to Samuel Page: Sam.l Goodridge, lieut.; John Foster, Lieut; and James Buxton, Ensign|Col. Benjamin Tupper was an original member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.

In an unidentified hand; captains are often the authors of such rolls.
Title continued:) .. and have not been absent save on furlough, taken prisoner, or sent to the Corps of Invalids
On verso: Filed by Ensign Buxton / Feb.y 7th 1779

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