(MILITARY) DOLBEAR JOHN Group of four documents regarding pa

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BLACK SOLDIER IN THE REVOLUTION (MILITARY.) DOLBEAR, JOHN. Group of four documents regarding pay for "Timbo, a Negro," also known as John Dolbear. Two partly printed documents, accomplished by hand, and two handwritten documents. Newberry, Connecticut, 1781

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John Dolbear, also known as "Timbo, a Negro man," was a soldier in the Continental army. He was apparently killed, and these documents trace the efforts of his master, James Dolbear to obtain the back pay due him. The first document, dated 21st of May, 1781 and signed by Gordon Saltonstall, judge of the Court of Probate in Newberry, Connecticut, gives James Dolbear the right as administrator of all of "Timbo''s" "goods, chattels, Credits and Estate." The next document dated 29th of May of 1781, an affidavit "that James Dolbear as he was called, a deceased Negro, was a servant to Mr. John Dolbear and that he serv''d as a soldier in the Continental Army before the first day of January of 1780 in Col. Durkee''s Regt," is signed by two "selectmen" as witnesses. The third document, dated 30th of May, 1781, states "plese (sic) to deliver William Hillhouse esq. The notes due to James Dolbear for deprecation of wages in the Connecticut Army, New London, 30th May, 1781," signed by John Dolbear and witnessed by Joshua Raymond. The last document is the partially printed pay receipt for the wages due to James Dolbear (Timbo), signed by William Hillhouse on behalf of John Dolbear, dated 11th June 1781.