Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 329

Price Realized: $ 978
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(REVOLUTION.) Manuscript pay roll of Captain John Lamb's Company of Artillery. 2 pages, same side of folded folio sheet; some ink staining, usual folds, minor separations at folds, some browning. Np, September 1775
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Commissioned in July 1775, Lamb's Artillery fought at the Battle of Quebec at the outset of the war, in which many of its members were captured or killed. Lamb was taken prisoner, but exchanged two years later and promoted to Colonel of the 2nd Continental Artillery, serving at Yorktown.<