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(MILITARY--AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Pair of documents regarding final pay for deceased soldier Kedar Freeman. Manuscript document, 2 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, and partly printed document, 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; each with folds and moderate toning. Groton and Hartford, CT, May and June 1783
These pay documents relate to the career of Kedar Freeman, who enlisted in a Connecticut regiment in May 1778, and died of smallpox on 26 July. The first is a contemporary transcript of a certificate by the selectmen of Groton, CT, 8 May 1783: "These may certify that Keeder Freeman in the Year AD 1777 inlisted into Col Sherburne's Regiment, Connecticut Line for three years and served until death."
The second is a Connecticut state order to "secure the Payment of Ten Pounds, six shillings & five pence being the balance due to Kedar Freeman, deceas'd," signed by administrator Elisha Williams in Hartford CT on 7 June 1783.
According to "Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut 1650-1900," Kedar Freeman's estate was probated in Stonington in August 1781. The name Kedar or Qedar has a Biblical association with dark or black skin.
