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Jackson, Michael (1734-1801) [Certificate to Lewis Campbell]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02657 Author/Creator: Jackson, Michael (1734-1801) Place Written: West Point, New York Type: Autograph document signed Date: 15 October 1783 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 19.4 x 16.1 cm. Order a Copy

Certificate verifying the admission of Lewis Campbell, a soldier in the first New Jersey Regiment guarding George Washington, to the hospital "for the cure of a wound received thro' his body ..." Lewis was wounded at King's Bridge and sent to the hospital at Robinson's Farm. Page one is signed by William Eustis (Hospital Surgeon), Jackson (Colonel of the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment) and David Townsend (Hospital Surgeon). Page two, a certification of Campbell's service and wound received, is written and signed by Caleb Gibbs.

Jackson, Michael, 1734-1801
Eustis, William, 1753-1825
Gibbs, Caleb, fl. 1748-1818
Townsend, David, 1753-1829
Campbell, Lewis, fl. 1783

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