2021-02 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/6/2021
Autograph Document Signed "Caleb Tappan" 1pp. quarto, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 2, 1775, being an invoice of stores purchased by Jacob Gerrish. Very good condition. Jacob Gerrish (c.1739-1817) was commissioned a captain in Colonel Little's Massachusetts regiment in May 1775 and continued to hold that rank in Little's 12th Continental Regiment during 1776. Gerrish gave up his Continental commission at the end of 1776, and from 1777 to 1778 he served as a colonel in the Massachusetts militia. Gerrish's Regiment was one of the 27 infantry regiments of the Massachusetts line created by the Continental Congress in 1775. Commanded by Colonel Samuel Gerrish, the unit saw action in the Boston and Cambridge campaigns and fought at Bunker Hill June 17, 1775.
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