Sold – John Hancock Appoints A Continental Army Veteran to the State Militia
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Document Signed during his second term as Governor of Massachusetts, Boston, September 18, 1790, appointing Richard Bagnall of Plymouth a captain in the state militia. The state seal remains present.
Bagnall first enlisted during the excitement after the Battle of Lexington and spent eight months in and around Boston with Washington’s army....
Document Signed during his second term as Governor of Massachusetts, Boston, September 18, 1790, appointing Richard Bagnall of Plymouth a captain in the state militia. The state seal remains present.
Bagnall first enlisted during the excitement after the Battle of Lexington and spent eight months in and around Boston with Washington’s army. In 1777, he joined in the Continental Army as an ensign in a regiment that served in western New York State inhabited by the Iroquois and other tribes of the Six Nations. Afterwards, Bagnall served around West Point, New York, until he joined Colonel Scammel’s troops and traveled to Virginia in the fall of 1781. He was present for the siege and surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, and stayed with the army until 1782. After the war, he returned to Plymouth and served as a militia officer.
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