2006-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/31/2006
Manuscript Document “A Pay Roll of Capt. Leml. Clap’s Company in Majr. Nathl. Heath Esq. Detachment for Guards in the State of Massachusetts Bay in the Service of the United States for the month of Augt. Station’d at Dorchester Heights, Dorchester, Augt 31st 1779,” 1p. oblong folio, listing 41 members of the Company by name, rank, and time of service as well as pay and enlistment and discharge dates. Fine. Captain Lemuel Clap (1735-1819) was a tanner by trade and a prominent Dorchester resident who invited Colonial troops to camp on his property during the siege of Boston. Lemuel was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, and his company was on duty for several of its first years at Dorchester Heights, Noddle's Island, and other places near by. The enlistments for this service were short, a few months at a time, and sometimes less, and his company, therefore, often changed its members. Sometimes there were quite a number of the Dorchester Clapps in its ranks.
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