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Eames, Daniel (fl. 1778) [Return for men detached from Captain Daniel Eames's Company]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.215.01 Author/Creator: Eames, Daniel (fl. 1778) Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 5 July 1778 Pagination: 1 p. ; 6.3 x 19.1 cm. Order a Copy

Created in Hopkington (possibly Hopkinton, Massachusetts). Indicates that men were detached from Eames's Company to serve in Colonel Samuel Bullard's Regiment "to Reinforce the Continental Armey untill the first January next." Lists the names of Sergeant Solomon Walker and Privates Amos Stimson, Daniel Sever, and Thomas Law.

Eames, Daniel, fl. 1778
Walker, Solomon, 1739-1792
Stimson, Amos, ?-1795
Sever, Daniel, fl. 1778
Law, Thomas, fl. 1778
Bullard, Samuel, fl. 1778

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