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Revolutionary War DS

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Revolutionary War DS
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Manuscript document signed by 34 soldiers of Captain Luke Drury's Company, dated 9 February 1776 from Dorchester, Massachusetts. At least 23 of the signers were Grafton, Massachusetts-area Minutemen who had responded to the Lexington-Concord Alarm on 19-21 April 1775, including Fortune Burnee, of African American and Native American heritage and his half-brother, Joseph Anthony, who enlisted on 29 April and died in service. Reads, ''Recd of Capt. Luke Drury the full of all our Wages as Officers & Soldiers in his Company in Colo Wards Regt in the Continantal Army for the Months of November & December Last / To a 1 Leiut £4-0-0 / to a 2d Lt 3-0-0 / to a Serj 2-8-0 / to a Corpl 2-4-0 / to a Drum 2-4-0 / to a Privet 2-0-0 / We have likewise Recd all the money due to us for milk Peas & Indian meal & Ration Money to Carey us home in full as witness our Hand. / Edmund Dolbear / Thaddeus Kemp / Thomas Leland, Jr. / Joseph Leland / William Walker / William Evans / Moses Rawson / Joseph Plumley / Joseph Anthony / Eliphalet Smith / Matthias Rice / Zadock Putnam / Ebenezer Phillips / Elijah Rice / Shelomith Stow / Thomas Pratt / Eseck Dexter / Edward Buttridge / Isaac Brigham / Zebulon Daniels / Fortune Burnea / Nathan Morse / Asaph Sherman / Ebenezer Melendy / Simeon Dexter / Jonah Goulding / George Smith / Jonathan Hemenway / Samuel Starns / Ebenezer Wadsworth / Peter Butler / Lt. Jonas Brown / Thomas Leland / John Banks''. Single page measures 7.75'' x 12.5''. Light soiling to laid paper with folds and untrimmed margins. Very good condition with dark signatures. Additional information about the soldiers, including for many their rank, residence and enlistment date, accompanies this lot.