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Bunker Hill Pay Receipt J Chester CT 1775

BUNKER HILL ASSOCIATED DOCUMENT - Pay Receipt for the Command of Col. John Chester of Wethersfield, Connecticut for 156 pounds, 2 shillings, dated July 12th, 1775, for the fight at Bunker Hill, in which he famously had his men train their muskets on fellow Americans to prevent their desertion between the second and third British assaults; signed by Ellsworth and Seymour as members of the Committee, made out to Jonathan Lawrence as Treasurer, presented with hand colored print of Trumbull's painting of the climax of the battle, with Capt. Thos. Knowlton protecting the dying Warren, in modern gold molded frame with double-window mat, 5" x 8" document, 16" x 13" overall, document in very good condition with two horizontal folds.