Clapp, Jonathan (d. 1815) [Return of Major Jonathan Clapp's Regiment]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.435.01 Author/Creator: Clapp, Jonathan (d. 1815) Place Written: Moses Creek, New York Type: Document signed Date: 23 July 1777 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 23.1 x 35 cm. Order a Copy
Docketed 19 March 1779 by David Lyman. Lyman states that Captain [Hampten?] is to pay John Lyman $50, and to charge the sum to David Lyman. Contains several other dockets, notes, and mathematical figures on verso.
Moses Creek was an American cantonment site occupied during the Saratoga Campaign located on the east side of the Hudson River, roughly five miles south of Fort Edward.
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