Adams, Jonathan (fl. 1746) [Certificate]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08916 Author/Creator: Adams, Jonathan (fl. 1746) Place Written: Dorchester, Massachusetts Type: Document signed Date: 21 June - 19 August 1746 Pagination: 1 p. ; 18 x 15.1 cm. Order a Copy
Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Certifies that Jonathan Adams is enlisted in the infantry under John Terry's command, which will be sent to Canada.
I Jonathn Adams Do acknowledge to have voluntarily enlisted my self as a [struck: private] Soldier to serve His Majesty King GEORGE the Second, in a Company of Foot, under the Command of Capt John Terry of Fulton raised in the Expedition now preparing for the Reduction of CANADA. att ye same time [inserted: illegible] Thirty fore Pound, old Enlist.n money
As Witness my Hand this Twenty first Day of June In the Year of our Lord 1746.
Jonn Adams
Worcester County august ye 19th 1746
THESE are to Certify, That Jonathan Adams Aged forty Nine Years, Born at Chelmsford came before Me, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County, and acknowledged to have voluntarily enlisted himself to serve His Majesty King GEORGE the Second, in the abovesaid Service: He also acknowledged he had heard the seventh and tenth Articles of War read unto him against Mutiny and Dessertion, and took the Oath of Fidelity, mentioned in the Twenty-first Article of War, and at the same Time receiv'd Thirty Pounds old [illegible] enlisting Money.
Sworn Before me John Harwood Justice [Paris]
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