WAR DATE BOUNTY FOR OFFICER IN THE CT LINE
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Partially Printed War-Date Document Signed, "Marcus Cole Leut." One page, 7 ½" x 6 ¼". Hartford. February 4, 1777. The document reads, in part: "Received of Pay-Table Committee, their Order on the Treasurer of the State, for Two hundred Pounds being for the additional Encouragement granted by this State, for inlisting [sic] into the Continental Army, and which I am to improve accordingly, for raising a Company in the Battalion to be commanded by John Durgee Colonel…Marcus Cole Leut"Having served in the French and Indian War, Marcus Cole enlisted in the 2nd Connecticut Line at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Before retiring from the service in 1778, Cole rose to the rank of First Lieutenant. Uneven right edge. Else Very Fine.
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WAR DATE BOUNTY FOR OFFICER IN THE CT LINE
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