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Collection Reference Number GLC04949
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1754-1764 
Title Order for fifteen men to join the expedition against the French at Crown Point
Date 9 September 1755
Author Trumbull, Jonathan (1710-1785)  
Document Type Military document
Content Description Written to Captain John Wattle of Lebanon, Connecticut, during the French and Indian War. Indicates that three impressed men should come from five different companies, given bounties, and sent to join "Captain Leaches company for the said service." A postscript orders the "several Captains of the Proprietive Company of Foot abovenamed" to render assistance to Wattle in making the impressments and keeping the peace. Trumbull wrote, and signed twice, as colonel of the 12th Regiment.
Subjects French and Indian War  Military History  Conscription  Soldier's Pay  Impressment  France  Global History and Civics  Foreign Affairs  
People Trumbull, Jonathan (1710-1785)  Wattle, John (fl. 1755)  
Place written Lebanon, Connecticut
Theme French & Indian Wars; Foreign Affairs
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859