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- GLC#
- GLC01450.609.01-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 2 August 1775
- Author/Creator
- Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807
- Title
- [Receipt for guns and bayonets]
- Place Written
- Connecticut
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 11.7 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
To Connecticut Treasurer, John Lawrence. Cosigned by Thomas Seymour. Requests payment from the Colony of Connecticut to Daniel Wilcox of Simsbury for three guns and two bayonets. Wilcox purchased the arms for service in Captain Elihu Humphrey's Company. Willcox (spelled Willcocks) dockets this receipt 2 August 1775, confirming receipt of the sum. A separate docket indicates that this receipt was audited 13 May 1776.
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