(MASSACHUSETTS) Accounts kept by Captain Thomas Leonard of t

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Accounts kept by Captain Thomas Leonard of the First Military Company of Taunton during the early colonial period. Autograph Document Signed, 3 pages on one folding sheet, 7 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches; moderate wear with early restoration. [Taunton, MA], 1686 and 1705

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Thomas Leonard (1641-1713) served for many years as a captain of Taunton's militia company as well as holding numerous other public offices and managing the Taunton Iron Works. On one side of this document is an account of militia fines given to Captain Thomas Leonard on 29 March 1686, covering the years 1683 and 1684, less 16 shillings which the company clerk paid for mending a drum. On verso is "A copy of the account of fines given unto Colonel Byfield" dated 13 April 1705 (listing several soldiers and their fines during an active period of Queen Anne's War), facing Leonard's "Account of Disbursements & Debts Yet Due," listing military expenses he had incurred out of pocket in 1704 and 1705, such as "for our colours when Governor Dudley arrived and for what I did since in altering the colours by the colonell's order and for mending the drums." This second account is signed by Captain Leonard.