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pair and Meaner Quality in Proportion. One Yoak of Oxen at 3s. 4d. per day. Men's Shoes of Neat's Leather at 8s. per pair, and other Shoemaker's shoes in Proportion. Good oats at 3s. per Bushell. Good Flax, well Dressed, 1s. 4d. per lb. Good Tried Tallow at 9d. per lb. Turkeys, Dunghill Fowls and Dueks at 5d. per lb. Geese at 4d. per lb. Milk at 31/4d. per quart. English Hay of the best Quality at 48s. out of the field & 60s. out of the Barn per tun. Good Merchantable White Pine Boards, at the Mills in this Town 24s. per Thousand. Women's Shoes at 6s. per pair. Good Merchantable Shingles, Delivered at the old Fort at 12s. per Thousand. Good Mer- chantable Clabboards, at 48s. per Thousand. Good Flaxseed at Ss. per Bushel. Good Merchantable White Oak Hogshead Staves, Good White Oak Barrell, at 4s. Good Turnips of the bes Quality at 2s. per Bushel. House Carpenters & Joiners at 4s. per Day, and if any person takes more, he or she subjects themselves to the fine set forth in said act.
"TIMOTHY PIKE
DAVID BARKER Select Men ICHABOD HANSON and ZOROBABEL HUNNEWELL Committee CALEB GRAFFAM of
ISAAC HARDY Windham
"EDWARD ANDERSON, Town Clerk."
The Committee of Safety and Inspection in 1777, were: Zerubbabel Hunnewell, Abraham Osgood, William Knight, Daniel Petingall. Caleb Graffam.
Sept. 24, 1777, the town paid for "mileage, to the Seleet- men, to Pickskill. Fishkill and Cambridge, 46 pounds 2 shill- ings." They doubtless visited those places to look after the Windham soldiers in the service there. The town in 1777 had three men in the State service at Rutland, Vt., besides those in the Massachusetts line, who were three-years men, and were the ones who saw the active service in the field. Windham had several soldiers who spent the winter at Valley Forge, where their sufferings were almost beyond human endurance.
In Col. Benjamin Tupper's 11th Mass. Regt., the following soldiers were returned as in eamp : "Capt. Richard Mayberry, Josiah Chute, Ebenezer Barton, William Mayberry, Robert
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Millions, Richard Mayberry, Jr., John Swett, Nicholas Hughes, Eleazer Chase, Peter Smith, Amos Brown, Stephen Tripp, (was reported as siek at Albany, New York.) Job Hill, of Col. Tup- per's Regt., Richard Dole, Edward Webb, of Col. Marshall's Regt., Eli Herbert, of Col. Brewer's Regt., Stephen Manchester, Enoch Graffam, George Teshary of Col. Vose's Regt."
Stephen Manchester, Jr., had died at Reading, Penn., Jan. 5, 1778, aged 26 years. He belonged to Col. Vose's Regt. The destitution of these soldiers at Valley Forge cannot be expressed by any language we possess. They were without sufficient food, clothing, and shelter: and yet they never complained, but en- dured all things that they might gain, not only for themselves. but for all coming generations, the blessings of liberty, and all which that word implies. The people of Windham heard of the sufferings of their townsmen in the huts of Valley Forge; and on April 14. 1778, $150 was voted "to defray the charge of providing shirts, stockings and shoes for the soldiers in the Continental Army," and 20 pounds was voted for the soldiers' families.
At a meeting held in the Block-House on May 15. 1778.
"Voted, six hundred dollars for those three men that is Drafted to go to Fish Kill.
"Voted, this six hundred dollars be assessed immediately."
At a meeting held in the Block-House on May 27, 1778, it was
"Voted, that Forty four pounds for each of those Militia men that is Drafted, to be given them as a bounty."
These men were probably Thomas Chute, Benjamin Trott, and David P. Mayberry, nine-months' men. The Committee of Safety and Inspection for 1778 were Zerubbabel Hunnewell. Paul Little, and David Noyes.
At the request of the General Court of Massachusetts, Capt. Thomas Trott, of the Town Company, sent the following list of soldiers in the Continental Army, on Nov. 24th, 1778:
"Col. Benjamin Tupper's 11th Mass. Regiment, Capt. Rich- ard Mayberry's Co., Capt. Richard Mayberry, Josiah Chute, John Swett. William Mayberry, Robert Millions, Stephen Tripp,
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Joseph Thompson, Ebenezer Barton, James Rines, Eleazer Chase, all three-years men. David P. Mayberry, Thomas Chute, both nine-months men.
"Capt. Samuel Thomes' Co., Lonnon Rhode, had died Dec. 9, 1777. Amos Brown, killed at the battle of Hubbardton.
"Col. James Vose's 1st Mass. Regiment, Capt. George Smith's Co., Enoch Graffam, Stephen Manchester, George Teshary.
"Col. Edward Wigglesworth's 13th Mass. Regiment, Capt. Nicholas Blaisdell's Co., Joseph Legrow. Elias Legrow. Col. Samuel Brewer's 12th Mass. Regiment.
"Capt. Silas Burbank's Co., Job Hall.
"Col. Thomas Marshall's 10th Mass. Regiment, Capt. Ben- jamin Walcott's Co., Richard Dole, Edward Webb."
These were all three-years' men, making a total of 20 three- years' men, and 2 nine-months' men.
Capt. Thomas Trott was commissioned in the Windham Militia Company in September, 1777, and it was still the First Company of the 4th Regt. of Cumberland County Militia. Timothy Pike, the colonel of this regiment, was a resident of Windham during the first four years of the war. The "Major" was William Knight, also of this town.
January 12th, 1779, the town "Voted, 80 pounds for the support of the women whose husbands are in the army."
At the March meeting, the following were elected for the Committee of Safety and Inspection for that year: William Knight, David Barker. Daniel Pettingall.
The price of labor on the roads was fixed at: "Men 30 shill- ings. Oxen the same. and 18 shillings for a plow, all per day."
The year 1779, was an exceedingly hard one for all classes of people; the currency was demoralized, and prospects of peace were poor. However, nothing daunted, the citizens of Wind- ham still kept on voting supplies to their brethren in the field.
On May 24th, 1779, they "Voted, 300 pounds for the support of the women whose husbands are in the Continental Service;" and, on June 21, of the same year, voted, 13 shirts, 13 pairs of shoes, and 13 pairs of stockings for the army. Thirteen men at least were in the Continental Army from Windham at that time, and probably more.
In June, 1779, came the Bagaduce Expedition, and on July
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9th, 16 men were drafted for that service, and 960 pounds were voted for the same.
The town records say that it was
"Voted, to raise money enough to make up every man's wages that is detached and goes to Penobscot, or sends a man in his sted, thirty pounds per month for two months or in pro- portion if discharged sooner."
Also, "Voted, that the town raise money and give Lieutenant Edward Anderson the same sum that the town is to give one of the soldiers for to go to the expedition to Penobseot."
This expedition to what is now Castine proved a positive failure, and many of the soldiers perished from exposure to cold and hunger while making their retreat through the wilderness.
After the defeat at Bagaduce, Falmouth Neek (now Port- land) was threatened; and on Sept. 10. 1779, 10 men from Windham were drafted to assist in guarding that place from any attack the British might make. This proved to be a false alarm, but Windham "Voted, to make up thirty pounds per month, for the ten men that is to be stationed at Falmouth with what the State gives."
Sept. 23, 1779, it was "Voted to raise money enough to make each of those men that went on the expedition to Penobscot. one hundred dollars per month during the expedition with what the State is to give them." The reason for such large wages was on account of the depreciation of the currency, which, at this time, had become nearly worthless.
In September, 1779. the town supplied elothing for the army, through Col. Timothy Pike, as follows :
" 5 Shirts, 60 shillings. 15 pounds
13 pairs Shoes, 60 shillings. 39 pounds
5 pairs Stockings 36 shillings 09 pounds
Total
63 pounds"
The town this year met with the loss of Col. Pike, who re- moved from here to Saccarappa. He had been a most useful citizen, and his removal was greatly deplored.
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The Committee of Safety and Inspection in 1780 were: Caleb Graffam, Paul Little, Zerubbabel Hunnewell.
The price per day for town work in 1780 was, for a man or a yoke of oxen $30.00. Daniel Brown was allowed 16 pounds for services attending the County Committee at Portland.
April 16, 1780, the town "Voted, $200 for each man that will go to the eastward."
This was for the eleven men who enlisted in Capt. Isaae Parsons's Co. in Lieut. Col. Joseph Prime's Regt., that served on the Maine coast that year. This company served from May 4th until Dec. 6th, and was probably at Camden. The men from Windham were: Sergt. Benjamin Trott; drummer, Peter Smith ; privates: James Chute, Nathaniel Chase, Jacob Eliott, George Knight, Samuel Lord, Thomas Mayberry, John Mayberry, Samuel Tobin, and John Winship, besides Lieut. Ichabod Han- son.
April 24, 1780. it was "Voted, Lieut. Hanson Two Hundred Dollars per month During the time he is in the service on the Expidition to the Eastward."
June 14, 1780, the town supplied the soldiers with clothing through Caleb Graffam, one of the Selectmen, as may be seen by the following statement: "9 shirts. 10 sh. 10d., 94 pounds, 10 sh .; 14 pairs Shoes, 144 sh., 100 pounds, 16 sh .; 7 pairs Stockings, 80 sh., 28 pounds ; Transportation, 75 pounds, making a Total of 298 pounds 6 sh."
Sept. 25. 1780. 2760 pounds of beef were furnished the army; and on Oct. 25th, the town "Voted, 13,050 dollars to pur- chase beef for the army, as per state reqisition."
On Dec. 4th of the same year, 5011 pounds more of beef were furnished.
The war had been in progress more than five years at this time, and the people were nearly penniless. In spite of this fact, however, they promptly honored every call for aid made by the Continental Congress.
January 16, 1781, William Knight, Thomas Trott, and Ed- ward Anderson were appointed a committee to "agree with the men who will go into the army for three years as soldiers, about bounty and wages," and the town "Voted, 2280 dollars, silver money. for the soldiers that is to go into the army for three years." Also it was "Voted, that the soldiers shall be paid ten
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dollars, in silver money, by the town per month and twenty dollars, in silver money, as a bounty," and "to pay them once in three months."
The paper money had become of so little value that they were obliged to return to specie values in order to obtain the needed recruits for the service.
Feb. 8, 1781, the town "Voted, 20,044 dollars paper money. towards the quota of beef affixed to the town by the resolve of the General Court."
In March of that year. clothing was sent the soldiers in the army, according to the following statement of Jonathan Loveitt, one of the Selectmen :
" 9 Shirts 40 pounds
360 pounds
9 pairs Shoes
40 pounds 360 pounds
9 pairs Stockings
24 pounds 216 pounds
12 miles travel 36 pounds
3 days time 63 pounds
Total,
1035 pounds"
The Committee of Safety and Inspection for 1781 were Abraham Osgood, Richard Mayberry, and Thomas Trott. The price of labor was fixed at $50 per day for a man; and oxen the same; while for the use of a plow $25 per day was allowed.
July 14, 1781, it was "Voted, that the town will abide by the agreement the Committee shall make for 3 men to go into the Continental army, and 60 pounds was appropriated for beef."
Paul Little, Ezra Brown and Richard Mayberry were ap- pointed to purchase this "as cheap as possible."
The State tax for 1781 was 949 pounds, 6 shillings, and Abraham Osgood was the Town Treasurer.
Aug. 27, 1781, twenty pounds was "Voted, to provide eloth- ing for the soldiers."
4 shillings, 8 pence was fixed as the price for all wool cloth after it was fulled for blanketing and made into blankets. Twelve shillings were charged for a pair of shoes made well of good leather, and six shillings for a pair of good stockings. The records show that at least four blankets were sent to the army this year.
With all these troubles on their hands, they still found time
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to look after other things relating to town affairs, and we find on the records that at a meeting held in the "Block-House" Oet. 15, 1781, they "Voted, that Edward Anderson, be an Agent for this Town to meet with the Agents of the neighboring Towns, to prosecute such measures as they judge best to obtain good and sufficient fish courses through the several Dams, on the Pre- sumpseot River."
On Jan. 28, 1782, William Elder was appointed agent of the town to procure one Continental soldier to fill their quota; and, on March 1st. three soldiers were sent into the Continental Army for three years, and May 31st £173 was voted to pay them.
At the March town meeting the price for work on the high- ways was reduced to hard money, and 4 shillings was set for a day's work for men or oxen, and 2 shillings for a plow.
Also, at this meeting " Voted, 40 shillings for wolves' heads."
At the same meeting it was "Voted, to sell the old Fort, at publie vendue."
This was done shortly afterward, and Abraham Anderson beeame its owner. He demolished the time-honored structure and used its massive timbers for other purposes; and the only trace of the ancient stronghold is a slight depression in the ground where it stood.
More money was voted at this meeting for the soldiers, and Paul Little was the Town Treasurer, in 1782 and 1783.
The Committee of Correspondence and Safety for 1783 were Zerubbabel Hunnewell, David Barker, Thomas Barker.
With the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, on Oet. 19, 1781, hostilities ceased. The war was then virtually over, and those who had survived the terrible ordeal returned to their homes.
With that indomitable courage and iron determination that had sustained them on the weary marches, in the huts of Valley Forge, and amid shoek of many a hard-fought battle field, they took up the duties of civil life with renewed vigor. They were as "poor as poverty" itself ; yet they possessed the proud con- seiousness of having performed their part in the great drama of national independence, and could leave to posterity the richest legaey a people ever had. Freedom and Union. Surely "there were giants in those days."
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Two votes passed at a town meeting held on May 19, 1783, give us a hint of their patriotism and their poverty.
"Voted, to give the Powder that was spent on the day of Rejoieing for Peace.
"Voted, to send Mr. Thomas Barker, Representative the Present year, on Conditions that he will Endeavor to do all the Service that lays in his Power to serve the Town, and that he will not ask the Town any wages. Except the Town Please to allow him Something for his Serviees, and that he will give his Obligation to the Select men of the Town.
"RICHARD DOLE, Town Clerk."
The women of Windham were equally as patriotic as were the men; they sent their husbands, sons, and brothers to join the army with words of ringing cheer. They spun, wove, knit, and sewed to furnish clothing for the suffering soldiers, and, in many cases, successfully condueted the business affairs of their absent husbands. They shrunk from no toil and hesitated at no sacrifice; but, with an unfaltering courage, did their part in the darkest hours of the American Revolution. May all future generations keep green the memory of their noble deeds.
According to a list prepared by Mr. Nathan Goold of Port- land, the well-known historian, whose ancestors were former citizens of Windham, the town had ninety-one soldiers in the serviee at different times during the war. Their names, together with their time of service, as found on the pay rolls, are as fol- lows :
"Lieut. Edward Anderson, 12 mos. 17 days serviee.
John Anderson, 11 mos. 6 days service.
Lieut. David Barker, 17 days serviee.
Ebenezer Barton, 42 mos. service.
Benjamin Bodge, 6 days service.
Thomas Bodge, 3 mos. 17 days service.
Thomas Bolton, 2 mos. 10 days service.
Amos Brown, 3 years man, killed at the battle of Hubbardton. Amos Brown, Jr., 24 mos. service.
William Campbell, 26 days service.
Eleazer Chase, 36 mos. service.
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Nathaniel Chase, 9 mos. 10 days service.
Joseph Chesley, 5 days service.
James Chute, 7 mos. 23 days service.
Josiah Chute, 46 mos. 5 days service.
Thomas Chute, 11 mos. 17 days service.
Thomas Crague, 13 days service.
Daniel Crockett, about 8 mos. service.
George Crockett, 11 days service.
Philip Davis, 3 years man.
Ensign Richard Dole, 3 years service as private and corporal.
Isaac Elder, 2 mos. 15 days service.
John Elder, 4 mos. 24 days service.
Joseph Elder, 11 mos. service.
William Elder, 4 mos. 10 days service.
Chase Elkins, 4 mos. service.
William Elkins, 5 days service.
Jacob Eliott, 7 mos. 29 days service.
Jedidiah Eliott, was a pensioner.
Nathan Gamman, 2 mos. service.
Caleb Graffam, Jr., 8 mos. 2 days service.
Enoch Graffam, 50 mos. 13 days service.
Enoch Hall, 3 years man.
Job Hall, 4 years 71% mos. service.
Lieut. Ichabod Hanson, 7 mos. 24 days service.
Isaac Hardy 5 days service.
Stephen Harris, 3 mos. 11 days service.
Eli Herbert, 3 years man. Moses How, 4 mos. 24 days service.
Elijah Hunnerwell, 11 days service.
Richard Hunnerwell, 3 mos. 10 days service.
Richard Hutchinson, 9 days service.
Samuel Hutchinson. 4 mos. 4 days service.
Nicholas Hughes, 3 years man. James Jordan, 3 years man.
George Knight, 9 mos. 17 days service.
Samuel Knight, 24 mos. 14 days service.
Capt. William Knight, 16 days service. He was also a Major of militia. Charles Legro, 5 days service.
Elias Legro, 3 years man.
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Joseph Legro, 3. years man. Charles Lord, about 91/2 months service. Samuel Lord, 15 mos. 16 days service. John Loring, 8 months service. Stephen Lowell, 10 mos. service. Gershom Manchester, 26 days service.
Stephen Manchester, 49 mos. service.
Stephen Manchester, Jr., sent from Valley Forge to the hospital at Reading, where he died Jan. 5, 1778.
David P. Mayberry, 16 mos. 5 days service. James Mayberry, 2 mos. 17 days service. John Mayberry, 7 mos. service.
Capt. Richard Mayberry, 39 mos. 12 days service. Richard Mayberry, Jr., 39 mos. service.
Richard Mayberry, 3d, 5 days service.
William Mayberry, son of Captain Richard, 3 years man.
Thomas Mayberry, about 20 mos. service.
William Mayberry, son of John, 26 days service.
Robert Martin, a pensioner. John Mathews, 4 days service. Robert Millions, 3 years man. John Mugford, 2 mos. 17 days service. James Pray, 5 days service. Richard Preston, 20 mos. service.
Joseph Roberts, 19 mos. 17 days service.
James Rines, 3 years man. Taken prisoner at Hubbardton July 7, 1777.
Lonon Rhode, "a free negro," 3 years man, and died in the army Dee. 9, 1777.
Joseph Swett, 5 days service.
John Swett, about 31/2 years service.
Peter Smith, (a negro) 43 mos. service.
George Teshary, served, probably, 43 mos. 7 days.
Joseph Thompson, 3 years man. Samuel Toben, 9 mos. 17 days service. Mathew Toben, 7 mos. serviee. Stephen Tripp, about 41 mos. serviee. Benjamin Trott, 9 mos. 17 days service. Capt. Thomas Trott, of the town Company. Edward Webb, 3 years man.
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Eli Webb, 5 days service.
John Winship, 7 mos. 26 days serviee.
Caleb Young, 4 mos. 12 days service."
In addition to the above, were the following :
John Knight "of Windham" enlisted at Gorham. We do not know who this man was.
Smith, in his "History of Windham," says that the eolored men, Flanders and Romeo, served three years in the army; but Mr. Goold fails to verify the statement from any known record, and we have been unable to learn, either directly or indirectly, that any such persons ever lived in this town. He also gives the names of Richard Thurrell, Hezekiah Hall, William Cam- mett, Jeremiah Small, Samuel Chandler, Stephen Hutchinson and William Hardy as three years' men. Mr. Goold says of these men, "We cannot now say they were Windham men." Richard Thurrell appears to have lived here at one time. Stephen Hutchinson was a tax payer in 1789-90; Jeremiah Small and William Hardy were Westbrook men; of the others named in this list we know nothing whatever. He also gives Joseph Hutchinson, John Young and Abraham Anderson as serving less than three years, which statement is not verified.
In Capt. Wentworth Stuart's Co., in Colonel Edmund Phin- ney's Regt., in 1775, we find the name of John Young of Pear- sontown, now Standish. He also served in the 18th Continental Regt. in 1776. This is doubtless the John Young, who had a family here as early as 1771.
Jonathan Knight of Windham enlisted at Falmouth and was a three-years' man. He removed to the town of Otisfield. John Farrow. Jr., moved sometime before the war to Bristol, Me., where his four sons, all born and raised in Windham, served in the army.
Capt. Peter Graffam, son of the old veteran Capt. Caleb Graffam, was born in Falmouth, Apr. 3, 1742; came to this town with his parents when a small boy, and grew to manhood here. He went to New Gloneester, where he settled and had a family. He enlisted in the army from that town and returned there after the war and there died. He always retained a warm affection for Windham, and, as often as onee each year came here to visit his former friends and relatives.
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Josiah Starling was born in Windham, Jan. 29, 1762. He went into the army from Bristol, Me., to which place he had moved sometime before.
Thomas Manchester, the first white child born in the town- ship, moved to New Hampshire and joined a regiment there.
John Manchester, a half brother of Stephen, moved from Windham about 1762 and was one of the men that captured the British ship, "Margaretta, " at Machias in 1775. He afterwards served in the army.
Doubtless there were others from Windham who did service in the war but whose names are unknown to us.
Thomas L. Smith, in his town history says: "We may judge of the efforts put forth by the inhabitants of this town during the revolutionary war, from the facts that there was but one military company in town during the war; that the number of men enrolled at any time did not amount to fifty five, of whom more than thirty were known to be out in the Continental ser- vice and service of the State at one time, and during the war seventy-one men performed service in the continental army and drafted militia, being sixteen more than the number enrolled at any time, forty of whom served three years in the army."
Certainly this is a grand record, and we doubt if any town in this State, with a like number of inhabitants, can present a better one. In the possession of the Maine Historical Society are two original pay rolls of Capt. Richard Mayberry's Com- pany, for December, 1778, the next winter after their sufferings at Valley Forge. According to the payroll, the men were paid as follows :
"Captain, £12 per month.
"Lieutenant, £8 per month.
"Ensign, £6 per month.
"Sergeants, £3 per month.
"Corporals, £2 4 sh. per month.
"Drum and Fife, £2 4 sh. per month.
"Privates, £2 per month."
Opposite Capt. Mayberry's name is written, "On furlough, Sept. 11th, by his Excellency Genl Washington without limit." The Regiment was then at West Point.
Nicholas Hughes is reported sick at Valley Forge.
James Jordan, it says, is "on command at the Lines."
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Robert Millions was "on furlough by Gen. Patterson, Nov. 19th, for 90 days."
John Swett was "on command at the Line."
Peter Smith was "sick in ye Hospital at Hartford."
Corporal Ebenezer Barton was "on furlough for 90 days by Gen. Patterson."
A tradition in the Millions family, which the writer has heard many times, relates that Robert Millions and Corp. Barton came home from the army together on furloughs and walked nearly all the way, excepting for an occasional short ride from some good-natured teamster on the road.
Joseph Thompson is reported "On Duty."
Thomas Chute is recorded there. and the other Windham men, David Mayberry and Benjamin Trott also. These three were nine-months' men, who entered the service in June, 1778.
Josiah Chute was a Sergeant and had enlisted in the 11th Mass. Regt., Jan. 1. 1777, for three years. IIe was wounded in the shoulder by a musket ball, in the Battle of Hubbardstown, July 7, 1777. He was taken prisoner by the British, from whom he escaped and wandered for two weeks in the woods before he got into the American lines. He was in command of the Com- pany, when the rolls were made out, and brought them home with him. His discharge from the army is written on the back of one of these, as follows:
"Head Qurs. Robinson House
Piekskills Dec. 12th, 1779.
"Sergeant Josiah Chute of the Eleventh Massachusetts Regt., having Ben Represented as a faithful Soldier who has Ben wounded in Battle and thereby rendered unfit for Duty has Leave of abscence from Camp until the first Day of January next in the year 1780, as Majr. Knap has reported that the Time for which said Chute Engaged to Serve in the Army will Expire on the 1st of January next. He is not required to Join his Reg- iment, but to receive this as a discharge from the army of the United States of America, as fully as if it was given After his time of service had Expired.
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