(AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1776) Minutes of a court martial on th

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Minutes of a court martial on the northern frontier. Manuscript document, signed by Colonel Elias Dayton as regimental commander and Captain William Imlay as president of the court. 2 pages, 12 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches; worn with loss of a few words, paper repairs along right edge, 4-inch closed tear. With typed transcript. Fort Schuyler [a.k.a. Fort Stanwix], Rome, NY, 17 August 1776

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Col. Elias Dayton and his 3rd New Jersey regiment occupied this abandoned upstate French and Indian War fort in July 1776. This court martial was held the following month, with three soldiers on trial. John Moon was on sentry duty one evening: "After looking for him some time, they found him laying on his face with his gun under him, and to the best of his knowledge he was asleep." He was ordered to "receive thirty-nine lashes with a cat-o-nine-tails on his bare back." Jacob Freeman was given a gun to examine by his sergeant and fired it; he was given "three days imprisonment on bread." Finally, John Twa was accused of stealing a blanket from a fellow soldier, but the court ruled that "he took the blanket in a mistake, the blanket is to be returned . . . and the prisoner to his duty."