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

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GLC#
GLC02437.02657-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
15 October 1783
Author/Creator
Jackson, Michael, 1734-1801
Title
[Certificate to Lewis Campbell]
Place Written
West Point, New York
Pagination
2 p. : docket ; Height: 19.4 cm, Width: 16.1 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

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.

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