{"data":{"description":"Archiving Early America - A Hand Written Receipt For Nine Guns And Nine Bayonets","title":"A Hand-Written Receipt for Nine Guns and Nine Bayonets","post_type":"page","content":"\u003ch2 style=\"color: #ad8431;\"\u003eSigned by a Continental Army Officer\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 style=\"color: #ad8431;\"\u003eOn July 5, 1776\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 style=\"color: #ad8431;\"\u003eAbstract\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe receipt, with the text in an unknown hand, is signed by Army Captain Joseph Churchill in Middletown, Conn. on July 5, 1776. The receipt is for \"Nine Guns \u0026 Nine Bayonets \u0026 belts\" for use by his soldiers.This is a rare historic artifact from early America, a handwritten receipt for arms signed by a Continental Army officer on July 5, 1776, the day after the Declaration of Independence was approved and officially adopted by the Continental Congress.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe weapons involved in this transaction are to be used by Capt. Churchill's soldiers as they march from Connecticut to New York to join Washington's army in the fighting in New York.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe arms are being received from Titus Hosmer, a lawyer from Middletown and Justice of the Peace at the time of this transaction. Two years later Hosmer went on to become a member of the Continental Congress and one of the signers of the Articles of Confederation. Later he was elected to the Maritime Court of Appeals in 1780.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe entire receipt including the signature itself is written in brown ink on light-brown paper, measuring approximately 7 1/2\" by 6\". The back of the document is also signed by Capt. Churchill and dated.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\r\n\r\n\u003ca href=\"/earlyamerica/writings/hand-written-receipt-nine-guns-nine-bayonets/receipt\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-5185 size-medium\" src=\"/images/earlyamerica/receipt.jpg\" alt=\"A Hand-Written Receipt for Nine Guns and Nine Bayonets\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Hand-Written Receipt for Nine Guns and Nine Bayonets\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 style=\"color: #ad8431;\"\u003eHere is the complete text of this manuscript receipt dated \"Middletown July 5th 1776.\"\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eRecd of Philip Mortimer \u0026 Geo Phillips Select Men of Middletown Nine Guns \u0026 Nine Bayonets \u0026 belts. Said Guns Bayonets \u0026 Belts was recd of Titos Hosmer Esq. which he purchased for the Use of this Colony which sd. Guns \u0026c I have recd to furnish the Soldiers under my Comand In the Continental Servis for N. York \u0026c \u0026 promis to be Accountable for the Same.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJoseph Churchill\u003c/p\u003e","menu":[{"path":"lives-early-america","title":"Famous Lives","submenu":[{"path":"lives-early-america/autobiography-benjamin-franklin","title":"Autobiography of Ben Franklin"},{"path":"lives-early-america/ramsays-life-washington","title":"Ramsay's The Life of Washington"},{"path":"lives-early-america/adventures-col-daniel-boone","title":"The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone"},{"path":"lives-early-america/true-story-paul-revere","title":"The True Story of Paul Revere"},{"path":"world-early-america/famous-obits","title":"Famous Obits"},{"path":"portrait","title":"Portraits"},{"path":"rare-images/last-men-revolution","title":"The Last Men of the Revolution"}]},{"path":"freedom-documents","title":"Freedom Documents","submenu":[{"path":"freedom-documents/bill-rights","title":"Bill of Rights"},{"path":"freedom-documents/declaration-independence","title":"Declaration of Independence"},{"path":"freedom-documents/u-s-constitution","title":"The U.S. Constitution"}]},{"path":"world-early-america","title":"World of Early America","submenu":[{"path":"bookmarks","title":"Early American Bookmarks"},{"path":"world-early-america/famous-obits","title":"Famous Obits"},{"path":"firsts","title":"Firsts!"},{"path":"rare-images/maps","title":"Maps"},{"path":"rare-images","title":"Rare Images"},{"path":"music1","title":"Music"},{"path":"writings","title":"The Writings of Early America"}]},{"path":"boston-massacre","title":"Boston Massacre"},{"path":"milestone-events","title":"Milestones"},{"path":"early-america-review","title":"The Review"},{"path":"home/teachers-students","title":"Teachers"},{"path":"sitemap","title":"Sitemap"}]},"success":true}