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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.
Founding Father Artemas Ward 1777 Pay Warrant Signed as Continental Army Eastern Division Commander
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