(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) WARD, ARTEMAS. Document Signed, as Commander-in-Chief of Massachusetts Bay Colony Militia, ordering Deputy Paymaster General Ebenezer Hancock to pay £168.4.0 to Captain of Artillery Edward Burbeck. Countersigned by Secretary Joseph Ward. 1 page, 4to; few scattered holes with minor loss to text, partially backed exposing only an accounting of payments to Burbeck in July 1776 written in unknown hand on verso, docketing written vertically at lower left recto, faint scattered toning, faint scattered bleedthrough, folds, inlaid. Boston, 26 August 1776
