1780 Payroll From Capt. Clapp's Company - With Seven Minutemen, Manuscript document signed by the enlisted men in Captain Lemuel Clapp's Company, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 13 x 8¼ inches, 1780. The men acknowledge receipt "of Captain Lemuel Clapp, the whole of the State's Wages for the months of February and March 1780, and the whole of the wages due for the month of April for the same year." A scarce military payroll, with seven minutemen (denoted by an "M") who were members of the Dorchester company which assembled on April 19, 1775, the day of the battle of Lexington. Overall very good condition.
The men are: Capt. Lemuel Clapp (M), Nathaniel Topliff, Lemuel Clapp Jr., Lt. Nathaniel Clapp (M), Edward Wiswell, Lt. Bird, Daniel Fairne (M), Timothy Wales, David Clapp Jr., Aaron Bird, Ezra Clapp (M), John Clapp, William Bullock, Ephraim Mann, Christopher Capen, William Mann, John Wiswell Lemuel Clapp, John Blackman, John Atherton (M), James Humphrey, Silas Niles, William Humphrey, Jonathan Clapp Jr., Ebenezer Withington, Joseph Withington (M), John Capen George Baker, Nathaniel Glover, Jonathan Bird (M), Reuben Torrey, Thomas White, Jonathan Bird Jr., Enoch Glover Jr., John Foster, Jr., Joseph Bird Jr., Ebenezer Maxfield (M), and Francis De Luce (M).
Estimated Value $800 - 1,000
Colonial and Revolutionary America
