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Nixon, John (1741-1815) to Benjamin Heywood

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02499.16 Author/Creator: Nixon, John (1741-1815) Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 23 October 1779 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 30.5 x 20.5 cm. Order a Copy

Informs Heywood that he was chosen for a committee to settle payment for Massachusetts troops in arrears due to currency depreciation. Written at "Camp Pines Bridge"

John Nixon was Captain of a Company of Minute Men at Lexington, 19th April, 1775; Colonel of a Massachusetts Regiment, 24th April to December, 1775; wounded at Bunker Hill, 17th June, 1775; Colonel of the 4th Continental Infantry, 1st January, 1776; and Brigadier-General Continental Army, 9th August, 1776.
Benjamin Heywood was a Lieutenant of John Nixon's Massachusetts Regiment during the American Revolution.

Nixon, John, 1741-1815
Heywood, Benjamin, 1746-1816

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