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- GLC#
- GLC02498.04-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- February 20, 1765
- Author/Creator
- Dayton, Elias, fl. 1774
- Title
- [Certificate of service and of disability].
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
"This is to certify that the bearer, John Williams, has served in the New Jersey Regiment [illegible] the command of Col. McDonald and Serjent in Capn Draytons Company and in the service has lost the use of [illegible] thumb. Given under my hand and seal." Signed as Captain of the New Jersey Regiment. An important Revolutionary War military figure, Drayton was a member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788.
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