Arrickson, Samuel (fl. 1783) [Testimony of Samuel Arrickson]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02598 Author/Creator: Arrickson, Samuel (fl. 1783) Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: circa 27 September 1783 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 30.8 x 18.5 cm. Order a Copy
Samuel Arrickson's [also spelled Arrixson] testimony for the trial of Lieutenant Wheaton. Relates an incident where Wheaton had ordered boots and shoes to be made and refused to pay for them. See GLC02437.02597. Noted as "Taken & Sealed -/On the Charges Against Lt. Wheaton/To be open'd by the Judge Advocate/Before the Court" and "I [Arrickson] Personally apeared Before ... Benjamin Carpenter one of the People's Justice of the Peac[e] for said County the Within Named Samuel Arrixson the 27 day of September 1783 and was favor to the Within Deposition." Signed by Bejamin Carpenter as a witness.
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Samuel Arrixson Soldier in the Rhode Island Battalion & Native of New Hampshire testifies & says - That he was last Winter doing some work at a Mr. Eversons in Albany, that Lieut. Wheaton at that time had charge of the men in Hospital & That He came to Mr. Eversons to get him to make some Mogersons for the Battalion, which the deponent understood He was employed by the commanding Officer to preserve - Mr. Everson agreed to the proposals made by Mr. Wheaton & engag'd to make the mogersons- some time after the contract entered into with him & Mr. Everson - Spake for a pair of boots & a pair of shoes which Mr. Everson promised to make - That sometime after M. Wheaton had recd. the boots & shoes, he one day told Mr. Everson that he thought he ought to make him a present of something for having procured him so good a jobb or that of making the Mogersons - That Mr. Everson presented Mr. Wheaton the boots & shoes, which the deponent heard he afterwards sold to an officer of the Battalion & engag'd Mr. Everson to make him another pair, which the deponent also made - after they were done Mr. Wheaton told the deponent that he must pay for them - the deponent answered that he had no right o pay for them & should not do it - Mr. Wheaton then said that he should order the money stop'd out of that which Mr. Coerson ow'd him for work & in consequence of the deponent refusing to allow it, he was orderd by Mr. Wheaton ( to join his corps at Saratoga - who added that is he did not immediately leave the house, he could Cane him - That Mr. Wheaton came several times afterwards to Mr. Everson & insisted on his allowing him somthing more for the work he had procur'd him & treated him with very ill language 0 indeed his treatment in general to Mr. Everson he thought every very illiberal - The deponent further deduces that he some time after saw Mr. Wheaton in Albany & Asked him for the money he had ordered Mr. Everson to stop from that which was due him for work - that Mr. Wheaton refused paying it - the deponent them said if he could not pay him 0 he knew a way to get it - to which Mr. Wheaton replied that he might do his best & worst he would not pay him & defied him to oblige him to pay it.
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