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- GLC#
- GLC01450.065.03-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1 January 1818
- Author/Creator
- Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819
- Title
- [Petition to U.S. Senate]
- Place Written
- Charlestown, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
Petition of representation for Frothingham stating that he served in the United States army during the Revolutionary War as "Sergeant in Capt Chadwick's Company in 1775," then as Sergeant in Colonel Henry Knox's Regiment of Artillery, and finally as Principal Field Commissary of Military Stores of the American Army" until the end of the war. States he has not received the same commutation of land as other officers of the same line received. Requests that he be reimbursed accordingly.
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