Collection of documents related to Captain Morgan Lewis [Decimalized .01-.15]

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GLC#
GLC01450.603-View header record
Type
Header Record
Date
1775-1783
Title
Collection of documents related to Captain Morgan Lewis [Decimalized .01-.15]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
15 items
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
Road to Revolution
Lewis, Morgan, 1737-1784
Military History
Revolutionary War
Muster Rolls and Returns
Soldier's Pay
Finance

Showing 15 of 15 records

GLC01450.603.01
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Morgan Lewis

May 4, 1775

Bragdon, Joshua, 1743-1792

Bragdon informs Captain Lewis that he has a "commission to dispose of and if it suits you to take the Commission it is at your service ... " Instructs Lewis to offer the commission to Benjamin Tripe (possibly Benjamin Tripp, a lieutenant in Lewis's...

GLC01450.603.01
GLC01450.603.02
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Nathaniel Lewis

June 21, 1775

More, Abraham, fl. 1775

More informs Lewis "Honored Sir I take this opportunity to let you now that I am well and hope that these Lines will find you and your family in the same I would be glad to meet you but I must wait with patience till I am allowed to come home I...

GLC01450.603.02
GLC01450.603.03
Collection Item
Document signed

[Muster roll for Colonel Drummon's Regiment]

September 6, 1775

Patten, William, 1731-1796

Patten signs with various other sergeants, corporals, drum and fife, and privates, verifying their receipt of one month's pay. Drummon's Regiment was part of Captain Lewis's (possibly Morgan Lewis's) Company.

GLC01450.603.03
GLC01450.603.04
Collection Item
Document signed

[Record of payment]

December 5, 1775

Jonadab, fl. 1775

Lord signs with a mark, and James Littlefield signs as a witness. Lord pays Samuel [Cheff?] one pound, ten shillings, and six pence.

GLC01450.603.04
GLC01450.603.05
Collection Item
Document signed

[Record of payment]

December 21, 1775

Fernald, Benjamin, 1744-1812

Fernald signs as a witness. Samuel [Hamon?] instructs Captain Morgan Lewis to pay Simon Chase a sum of money (possibly out of Hamon's wages).

GLC01450.603.05
GLC01450.603.06
Collection Item
Document signed

[Record of payment]

December 28, 1775

Cheff, Samuel, fl. 1775-1810

Cheff informs Captain Lewis (possibly Morgan Lewis) of Cheff's payment to Ephraim [Giles?].

GLC01450.603.06
GLC01450.603.07
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Morgan Lewis

July 18, 1776

Goodwin, Ichabod, 1743-1829

Goodwin informs Captain Lewis that Major Roberts has orders to march on the following Monday. Requests that Morgan send the troops from Sanford, Maine (where he was stationed) to a specified location. States "there has only seven as yet posed muster...

GLC01450.603.07
GLC01450.603.08
Collection Item
Document

[List of soldiers recruited for the Canada Expedition]

2 August 1776

States "met pursuant to orders for Raising Every twenty fifth man for the Canada Expedition." Contains the names of captains and privates. Mentions Captain Morgan Lewis, whose company of militia marched in response to the 19 April 1775 Lexington...

GLC01450.603.08
GLC01450.603.09
Collection Item
Document signed

[Selectman's notification of assembly]

March 3, 1777

Lewis, Morgan, 1737-1784

Lewis, a selectman of Sanford, instructs "All Persons having any Demands on the Town of Sanford" to assemble at Jonathan Johnson's dwelling house on 14 March in order to present their case before a committee of selectmen.

GLC01450.603.09
GLC01450.603.10
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Morgan Lewis

May 21, 1777

Sayer, Ebenezer, fl. 1757-1777

Sayer informs Lewis, a Sanford (present day Maine) selectman, that the committee of selectmen and militia at Sanford are mistaken regarding the proportion of men they commissioned for service in the Continental Army. States "the Act of the General...

GLC01450.603.10
GLC01450.603.11
Collection Item
Document signed

[Receipt for service in the Penobscot Expedition]

14 July 1779

Wormwood, Amos, 1758-1809

Wormwood acknowledges receipts of three pounds from Captain Morgan Lewis for his service. Several mathematical figures are written on verso.

GLC01450.603.11
GLC01450.603.12
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Morgan Lewis

August 13, 1779

Nowell, John, 1732-?

Discusses a previous deficiency in the number of men commissioned to participate in the Penobscot Expedition. Instructs Captain Lewis to immediately muster men to serve in Providence, Rhode Island and the Penobscot Expedition. Mentions a penalty...

GLC01450.603.12
GLC01450.603.13
Collection Item
Document signed

[Reciept of son's wages]

February 24, 1783

Jones, Joseph, fl. 1775-1783

Jones acknowledges receipt of a sum of money from Captain Morgan Lewis towards his "soons wages for serving as a Solder at Cambridge in the year 1775."

GLC01450.603.13
GLC01450.603.14
Collection Item
Document signed

Muster Roll of Late Captain Joshua Brady's Company in the 30th Reg. of Foot Commanded by Colo. James Scammons Belonging to the army of the united colonies of North America 12 September 1775

September 12, 1775

Lewis, Morgan, 1737-1784

Signed by Morgan Lewis as Lieutenant. Also signed by John Sayward. Sayward's signature is accompanied by an incomplete note. Captain Joshua Bragdon's Company was in Colonel James Scammons's 30th Regiment of Foot in the Continental Army. Captain...

GLC01450.603.14
GLC01450.603.15
Collection Item
Document signed

Muster Roll of Captain Joshua Bragdon's Company, in the 30th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel James Scammon belonging to the Army of the United Colonies of North America

circa 1775

Lewis, Morgan, 1737-1784

Signed by Morgan Lewis as Lieutenant. Document differs from 1450.603.14 as it is a printed sheet with names and notes handwritten in. Captain Joshua Bragdon's Company was in Colonel James Seammons's 30th Regiment of Foot in the Continental Army...

GLC01450.603.15