Tiverton, Rhode Island, signed enlistment agreement, May 30, 1777

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Document Metadata

Document Date

1777-05-30

Title

Tiverton, Rhode Island, signed enlistment agreement, May 30, 1777

Description

Page 1: [later copy of] Tiverton, May 30th 1777. When received in full each of us twelve Pounds Lawful] C[urrency] as a bounty given to us for our within written enlistment... [signed by twelve men]. Page 2: [later copy of] …We the subscribers do solemnly engage and enlist ourselves as soldiers in the Battalions raised by the State of Rhode Island…Page 3: Tiverton, May 30th 1777. When received in full each of us twelve Pounds Law[ful] C[urrency] as a bounty given to us for our within written enlistment... [signed by twelve men]. Page 4: …We the subscribers do solemnly engage and enlist ourselves as soldiers in the Battalions raised by the State of Rhode Island…Page 5: Letter from Asa Gray, Tiverton, to Benjamin Cowell Esq, regarding 4 rolls of Capt. Manchester and notes on Gideon Gifford, October 29, 1852.

Document Year(s)

1777

Document Month

05

Document Day

30

Notes

Indexed

Document Type

Enlistment return

Regiment and Company Information

Regiment Officer

Lt. Col. Adam Comstock

Regiment Officer Rank

Lt Col

Catalog Information

Call Number

MSS 673 Sub-group 2 Series 1 Sub-series A Box 1 Folder 7

Series Number

1

Series Name

Rhode Island Continental Lines

Sub-Series

A

Sub-Series Name

1st Rhode Island Regiment, Continental Line

Box Number

1

Folder Number

7

Item Identifier

293

Previous Citations

Old item #

none

Old RIMP vol #

none

Old RIMP pg #

none

Other old cat marks

p 33?

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