Warren, James (1726-1808) [Appointment of Second Lieutenant Enos Briggs]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00994 Author/Creator: Warren, James (1726-1808) Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 25 July 1775 Pagination: 2 p. 17.9 x 30.7 cm. Order a Copy
Document of the Congress of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay appoints Enos Briggs a second lieutenant of a Company of Foot. Signed by James Warren, President of the Congress and Samuel Freeman, Secretary of the Congress. On verso is note written by John Cushing, Jr., Justice of the Peace in Plymouth, that Briggs took the oath required by officers and soldiers of the Massachusetts Army on 2 September 1775.
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