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Butler, Zebulon (1731-1795) [Certificate of continental service for Peter Mix]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01412.27 Author/Creator: Butler, Zebulon (1731-1795) Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 28 August 1782 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 13 x 21 cm Order a Copy

Certifies that Mix served in the "4th Connt Regt" during 1781. Written at "Camp."

Zebulon Butler was colonel of the 2nd Connecticut Regiment.

Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795
Mix, Peter, 1757-?

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