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Founding Father Artemas Ward 1777 Pay Warrant Signed as Continental Army Eastern Division Commander
Artemas Ward document signed as commander of the Continental Army’s Eastern Department. Handwritten document is a pay warrant, addressed to Ebenezer Hancock. Esq., the, ”Dpty Paymaster General of the Army of the United States of America.” Warrant orders payment of 36 pounds, 6 shillings and five pence, ”…equal to one hundred & twenty one Dollars…” to Peleg Wadsworth, Major of Brigade in the Service of the United States of America and, incidentally, grandfather of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Countersigned by Joseph Ward as Aretmas’ aide-de-camp. Single-page document measures 7.5” x 12”. Creasing, binding remnants along the left edge, notations to verso and ink showthrough from verso, else near fine. One page, 7.5” x 12”, ”Head Quarters in Boston,” January 3, 1777. Peleg Wadsworth (1748-1829), a captain in the Massachusetts militia, served as aide-de-camp to Artemas Ward in 1776. He saw action at the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 and was commissioned a brigadier general of militia the following year. Wadsworth was second in command of land forces during the disastrous Penobscot Expedition. He was captured in 1781 and imprisoned in Fort George, but escaped shortly thereafter. After the war, he represented the Massachusetts District of Maine in the U.S. Congress. Wadsworth was the grandfather of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Sold for $1,250.
Artemas Ward 1776 Document Signed
Artemas Ward, Joseph Ward, and Charles Miller Document Signed. One page, 7.5” x 12”, ”Head Quarters in Boston,” October 1, 1776, to ”Ebenezer Hancock Esqr. Depy Paymaster General of the Army of the United States of America.” Major General Artemas Ward, second in command of the Continental Army to George Washington, along with his aide-de-camp Joseph Ward, signs this document to reimburse the expenses of Charles Miller, the deputy commissary of the Continental Army, who also signs below his endorsement reading, ”Oct. 5th 1776 Rec’d the above Contents.” The body of the document reads in full: ”Pay to Charles Miller Esqr Depy Commissary of the Army of the United States of America, twelve hundred pounds equal to four thousand Dollars; it being for the defraying of necessary expenses in the Commissary General’s Office in the Service of the United States of America.” Artemas Ward had been commander of the colonial militia that surrounded Boston after the battles of Lexington and Concord and had given the orders to fortify Bunker Hill, provoking the famous battle near there on June 17, 1775. He later served in the U.S. House of Representatives. This document is toned with some weakness at the folds; minor staining. The right edge is unevenly cut. Docketed on the verso.
Sold for $1,250.
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