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Barber, Nathaniel, Jr. (1728-1787) to Samuel Shaw

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.00879 Author/Creator: Barber, Nathaniel, Jr. (1728-1787) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 26 January 1781 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 31.5 x 20.5 cm. Order a Copy

Lists the accounts of pay for Nathaniel Barber, John Adams, Samuel Lord and John Austin and asks Shaw to send a certificate so that they can "receive from this Common Wealth, the depreciation thereon."

[draft]
Nathaniel Barber Junr. his pay for the year
1777 - Fifty dollars pr month
1778 & 1779 - Sixty dollars pr. month

Samuel Lord Junr & John Austin - } Their pay from Jany. 1. 1777 to October 1. 1777 26 2/3 dollars pr. month from thence to March 1. 1778. at 30 dollars & from thence to the end of 1779 - 40 dolls pr. mo -

John Adams - his pay from December 10. 1777 to March 1. 1778 at 30 Dollars pr. month & from thence to the end of 1779 - 40 Dollars pr. month
Boston January 26. 1781 -
Sir,
The foregoing is the Account of our pay as we have received it at different periods, - I beg that immediately on your arrival in Camp, you will be kind enough to send me a Certificate to enable [inserted: us] to receive from this Common Wealth, the depreciation thereon - You may send one for the whole of us, or one for each as you think best.
I am your Friend & humd. Servant
Nathl Barber Junr. C. M. S
Major Shaw
[verso]
Major Samuel Shaw

Col Loring
[docket]
[struck: Ezekiel Roe
John Roe
Daniel Concklin
of Warwick -
2 horse load each
John Hopper
Andrew Christie
David Fulton
the same
[docket]
Jonas Seely - [strikeout]
Do
Jas Sears}
Job Sears}

Barber, Nathaniel, Jr. 1728-1787
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Adams, John, fl. 1774-1781
Lord, Samuel, fl. 1781
Austin, John, fl. 1781

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