One-page legal document concerning additional pay for service in the Revolutionary War

by William Sheldon

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Providence: August 23, 1791. Folio approx. 12 x 7½ ; wax seal intact, signed by Sheldon, Leverett Green, Wheeler Martin Justice of the Peace , and William Thurber, as witnesses; previous folds, very good. William Sheldon, mariner, signed this legal document in 1791, turning over his rights to his Revolutionary War depreciation wages of £44/11s. to Isaac Pitman, a Providence merchant. Depreciation wages referred to the situation that occurred

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