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Silver, Isaiah [Receipt for apprehending and holding deserters]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.718.06 Author/Creator: Silver, Isaiah Place Written: Portsmouth, New Hampshire Type: Document signed Date: 25 May 1816 Pagination: 2 p. ; 19 x 21.5 cm. Order a Copy

Also signed by Justice of the Peace Dan Humphreys and a lieutenant colonel of the commissary, possibly T.B. Dalbach (partially illegible). Lists expenses owed to Silver pertaining to the apprehension of Richard Galusha and Robert Jackson, who deserted Captain A.W. Thorton's company in the regiment of light artillery. A statement of the returns accuracy appears on the bottom of the first page (signed by Humphreys). An order to pay Silver and acknowledgment of payment appears on the verso.

Silver, Isaiah, fl. 1816
Humphreys, Dan, fl. 1816

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