(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) List of workers paid for construction

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) List of workers paid for construction of the 16th Continental Regiment's barracks during the siege of Boston. Manuscript document, 13 x 8 inches; early folds, minor wear, contemporary calculations in margins; docketed on verso. Boston, 20 January 1776

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This manuscript lists the 32 civilian laborers who helped construct the barracks for the 16th Continental Regiment during the siege of Boston in late 1775 and early 1776. It is titled "Camps before Boston . . . Work don on Barrocks for the 16 Regt." The number of days worked by each laborer is given, with some putting in up to 62 days of work. One of the workers turned over his pay to the regiment's Capt. James Perry, and another to Lt. Nathaniel Doubleday. The British evacuated Boston two months later, and the 16th Continentals went on to join the main army in New York, later fighting in Trenton and Princeton.