Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [Certificate of service for Major Job Sumner]

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GLC#
GLC02437.03026-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
29 July 1784
Author/Creator
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Title
[Certificate of service for Major Job Sumner]
Place Written
Dorchester, Massachusetts
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 33 cm, Width: 20.9 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Certifies that Sumner served in the Massachusetts line "from the earliest period of and during the whole War... he has through all its exigencies and distresses sustained the reputation of a gallant, and intelligent officer and has retired to private life by the final reduction of the Continental Army..." Written in Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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