Carlisle Minute Men |
Ruth Wilkins1 notes: |
“At a District Meeting on August 18, 1794, it was voted
”that the minute-men have Seven Dollars per month in
case they Shall be called into actual Service, while in
Service Including the Continental pay, and also give them
three Dollars Bounty … if called upon to march; and
further Voted that the minute-men who Shall turn out
Voluntaryly and enlist Shall have the Same pay which the town
of Concord have agreed to give their minute-men.
An order was drawn on the District Treasurer August 29, 1794 for thirteen pounds, ten shillings, the total amount of the bounty at eighteen shillings each, which the District voted to give in consideration of their services as minute-men to the following men: … James Russell, Junr, … Simon Wheeler, Nathan Wheeler, …” |
1Ruth Chamberlin Wilkins, Carlisle, Its History and Heritage. The Carlisle Historical Society, Inc. (Carlisle:1976), p. 177. |
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