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

Document

Document Metadata

Title

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

Document Type

Enlistment Roll

Document Year(s)

1777

Document Month

05

Document Day

30

Notes

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.

Regiment and Company Information

Regiment Officer

Comstock, Adam

Regiment Officer Rank

Lt Col

Catalog Information

Sub-Series Name

First Rhode Island Regiment, Continental Line

Series Number

1

Box Number

1

Item Identifier

293

Series Name

Rhode Island Continental Lines

Sub-Series

A

Folder Number

7

Previous Citations

Old item #

none

Old RIMP vol #

none

Old RIMP pg #

none

Other old cat marks

p 33?

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