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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
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.
Language of the document: the document is in English.
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Confirmation of payment to a group of men belonging to an American company by Edmund Wells
January 23, 1759
S001/D1.3,4.1
Canadian officers inspecting captured guns, near Vimy Ridge, France, 1917, copied for Miss L. E. Pease in 1917
Inconnu / Unknown
Copied in 1917
II-222454.0.2
Canadian officers inspecting captured guns, near Vimy Ridge, France, 1917, copied for Miss L. E. Pease in 1917
Inconnu / Unknown
Copied in 1917
II-222454.0
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