Firearms register - List of guns distributed to the company of Captain Edmund Wells of the Connecticut militia | McCord Museum

Firearms register

List of guns distributed to the company of Captain Edmund Wells of the Connecticut militia

Date May 2, 1757

Dimensions1 textual record ; 29.5 x 20.8 cm

ClassificationCommunication Objects - Documentary Objects - Other Documents

Origin Colchester, Connecticut, United States, North America

Object NumberS001/C1.3,6.3

DivisionArchives - Textual Archives

CollectionStewart

Scope and ContentEdmund Wells was a captain in the Connecticut militia during the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763). He left a journal that includes an account of a campaign he led in the summer of 1757. On May 2 he was in Colchester, Connecticut, along with the men of his company, and there they received their weapons. The document lists, in table form, the numbered weapons distributed among the company’s 53 soldiers. Later, they travelled to Fort Edward and remained there, never rejoining the British army during the siege of Fort William Henry, which took place from August 3 to 6, 1757. Notably, one of the men, called Oxford Negro, was likely a freed slave.

NotesSource of title: based on the nature of the document.

Language of the document: the document is in English.

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