Raynors HCA 2016-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/10/2016
Original Revolutionary War-date Manuscript Muster Roll of Captain Nathaniel Heath’s Company. G[errish] Reg't for Guards... in the Service of the United States Engaged Six Months...", 2 pages, measures 13.25” x 13”, at Boston. Gerrish's Regiment was one of the 27 infantry regiments of the Massachusetts line created by the Continental Congress in 1775. Commanded by Colonel Samuel Gerrish, the unit saw action in the Boston and Cambridge campaigns and fought at Bunker Hill June 17, 1775. The unit was one of many established on June 14, 1775, when the Continental Congress assumed responsibility for militia regiments that had been raised by the colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Most of these units, including Gerrish's Regiment, were stationed outside Boston, Massachusetts, where they besieged the city occupied by British troops under the command of General Thomas Gage.
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