[Revolutionary Era Commission] West Chester Country, New York, 17 October 1775

[REVOLUTIONARY ERA COMMISSION]

SIGNED MILITARY COMMISSION AWARDED TO DANIEL WATERBURY, WEST CHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, 17 OCTOBER 1775

Printed document (8 1/2 x 12 3/4 in.; 215 x 323 mm), accomplished in ink in a clerical hand; foxed and browned, expert repairs to verso.

Appointment of Daniel Waterbury to be Ensign in the "First Company of the Regiment of minute men of West Chester County whereof Samuel Drake Esqr. is Colonel." Waterbury is directed to take the prescribed oath "in the Rules and Orders for regulating the Militia of the Colony of New York..." Woodhull would later be a brigadier general of the New York Militia.

Signed by Nathaniel Woodhull as a leader of the New York Provincial Congress, countersigned by robert benson as secretary.

Condition Report:
Printed document (8 1/2 x 12 3/4 in.; 215 x 323 mm), accomplished in ink in a clerical hand; foxed and browned, expert repairs to verso.

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