A REGIMENT IS PAID FOR RESPONDING TO BURGOYNE'S ATTACKS IN NEW YORK, WEEKS BEFORE SARATOGA
Important pair of manuscript documents, one signed, issued by Major JONATHAN CLAPP while serving under Gen. Philip Schuyler in the Saratoga Campaign. The first, 1p. legal folio, Stillwater, Aug. 12, 1777 is headed: "The Commissary for the Northern Department to Major Clap's Regiment of the Satte of Massachusetts Bay of Militia Mileage..." and lists 14 officers of the regiment, indicates that they have traveled 100 miles, and requestst payment of various sums per company. At bottom, Clapp attests that this is a true copy, though he does not sign the document. Also present is a nearly identical document in Clapp's hand, undated but no doubt from the same period, with the same content but showing 120 miles of travel to be reimbursed. Both documents are very good. These troops had arrived only a week before Horatio Gates would replace Philip Schuyler. They would engage the British about a month later at Saratoga.