Root, Jesse (1737-1822) [Monetary obligation related to raising a Continental battalion]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02427 Author/Creator: Root, Jesse (1737-1822) Place Written: Connecticut Type: Printed document signed Date: 5 March 1777 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 32 x 19 cm. Order a Copy
Partly printed document also signed by Ez[echial?] Williams, Elizer Warner and Samuel Barker. Concerns the financial arrangement for Samuel Barker and Elizer Warner to raise (and Warner to serve as Captain of) a Continental battalion for Connecticut during the American Revolution.
Jesse Root (1737-1822) was a Continental Congressman from Connecticut.
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