BIB_ID
80085
Accession number
MA 554.47
Creator
Clark, Abraham, 1726-1794.
Display Date
[1780-1794].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
The statement is undated, however Caleb Davis was wounded at the Battle of Germantown in October 1777 and was discharged from the Continental Army on April 19, 1780. Davis served in "Spencer's Regiment" under Colonel Oliver Spencer.
The statement is undated, however Caleb Davis was wounded at the Battle of Germantown in October 1777 and was discharged from the Continental Army on April 19, 1780. Davis served in "Spencer's Regiment" under Colonel Oliver Spencer.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Concerning a disability claim for Caleb Davis that will require an Original Discharge Certificate from Col. Spencer "setting forth how he was wounded and Sent to the Hospital and discharged from thence by a Senior Surgeon as incurable; adding "If a New Regulation of Congress respecting such Soldiers takes place, a new method of obtaining pensions will also take place, which cannot at present be known."
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