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Collection Reference Number GLC01450.244.03
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1754-1764 
Title Claim for payment of seventy pounds from the Colony of Rhode Island for a ten day journey to Albany, New York
Date 22 August 1757
Author Cornell, Benjamin (b. 1733)  
Document Type Military document; Government document
Content Description Order to fulfill Captain Cornell's request signed by First Deputy Francis Brayton on 28 December 1757. A note on the verso singed by Cornell reads: "Tho. Richardson Please to pay the Contents of the within order." Richardson was the General Treasurer for the Colony of Rhode Island.
Subjects French and Indian War  Travel  Finance  Government and Civics  Military History  
People Cornell, Benjamin (b. 1733)  Brayton, Francis (fl. 1757)  
Place written Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Theme French & Indian Wars; Government & Politics
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information Captain Cornell of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, was a member of the Council of War in 1757 and marched on the alarm of August 1757.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859