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- GLC#
- GLC04764.42-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1777-1778
- Title
- The Field Officers of the 9th Objections to the Parole
- Place Written
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 19.8 cm, Width: 16.3 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Field officers of the 9th Regiment of Foot sent their complaints against the implementation of the Articles of Convention after the Battle of Saratoga. Date inferred from other documents in this collection listing the complaints of other British units around the end of 1777. Place written inferred from the fact that the prisoners of war after Saratoga were sent to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Objections include: Officers and men not quartered agreeable to the Articles, that they do not receive wood, rations, or provisions, restrictions on the purchasing of items outside the commissary. Was written near Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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