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Docket title: General Heath's warrant ... •In 6 columns: Ranks or trades without names; time commencing; time ending; months & days served; pay per month in dollars; [totals in pounds equalling L1691.5.0] •On verso: Boston, April 10 1778. I certify the within abstract to be correct ... Eben[eze]r Hancock Deputy Pay Master Genl. •Also on verso: To Ebenezer Hancock ... Sir, Pay Lieutenant Colonel David Mason ... five thousand six hundred & thirty seven dollars and thirty six seventy seconds of a doll. in full ... for the artificers under his command for the month of November 1777 ... Given at headquarters Boston Apr. 10th 1778 [signed] William Heath M. Genl. •"By the General's command, Seth Loring" •For details of Mason's involvement in the Board of Works, see: Biographical sketch of Col. David Mason of Salem, Mass. by his daughter Mrs. Susan Smith (Salem, 1912) •Heath was an original member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati •Separated at fold; in 2 parts •Watermark: GR

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