Charles Sargent Acknowledges Receiving His Pay with an “X,” One Day After Washington Takes Command of the Continental Army (SOLD)

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document Signed. Cambridge, Mass., July 4, 1775. 1 p.

Kittery Soldier Josiah Paul Takes His Pay

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document Signed. Pay receipt from Samuel Leighton for Josiah Paul, Kittery, [Maine], March 8, 1776.

A Kittery Woman Witnesses a Revolutionary War Pay Receipt

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document Signed. Pay receipt from Samuel Leighton for Nicholas Henderson. Kittery, [Maine], February 22, 1776. In hand of and signed by Deborah Kelley as witness to William Ferguson’s receiving of Henderson’s wages.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Militiamen Paid “Wages as a Soldier”

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document Signed. Pay receipt from Samuel Leighton for Fredrick Peverly, and John Whitelock, Portsmouth, N.H., May 18, 1776. On verso, Simon Frost of Kittery receives his pay.

Soldiers Getting Paid at Year’s End

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document Signed. Pay receipt from Samuel Leighton, 42 signatures. Cambridge, Mass., December 29, 1775.

A New Hampshire and Maine Company in the Siege of Boston

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document Signed by 44 officers and soldiers, being a receipt for pay for “the Month of September last,” Cambridge, Mass., October 31, 1775.

A Receipt for Guns from the Day after Washington Took Command of the Continental Army

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document. Weapons Receipt [from Samuel Leighton]. Cambridge, Mass., July 4, 1775. Names four members of Samuel Leighton’s Company: Charles Sargent, John Ferguson, Henry Foss, and Daniel Adams.

A Small Receipt for Big Items: Cartridges and Ammunition

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Autograph Document Signed by Samuel Nason, Quartermaster. Materiel Receipt from Samuel Leighton. [Cambridge, Mass.], docketed January 1, 1776, 1 p.

Two Days Before Christmas, 26 Soldiers in Leighton’s Company Receive Money to Purchase Coats

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document Signed by 26 soldiers. Materiel Receipt from Samuel Leighton. Cambridge, Mass., December 23, 1775, 1 p.

Captain Samuel Leighton’s Company Receive Their Cartridge Boxes

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document Signed by 24 soldiers. Materiel Receipt from Samuel Leighton. Cambridge, Mass., August 29, 1775, 1 p.

Fourteen Men Receive Coats and Pay

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document Signed by 14 soldiers. Materiel Receipt from Samuel Leighton. Cambridge, Mass., October 28, 1775, 1 p.

An Inventory of Each Soldier’s Ammunition Reveals the Sorry State of Affairs

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document, “A List of Men and Aminitson [sic] that they have by them.” Cambridge, Mass., August 12, 1775, 1 p., 5¼ x 12¼ in.

A Dozen Revolutionary Soldiers Receive Shoes, Stockings, and Some Shirts

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document. Materiel Receipt [from Samuel Leighton]. n.d., but 1775 or 1776. 1 p.

A New Year’s Inventory of Each Soldier’s “Cartridges, Loose Ball, Powder, and Flints”

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document. Inventory by Samuel Leighton of the ammunition held by 40 men. ca. January 1, 1776. 1 p. (plus ciphering notes on two more pages; one note giving the 1 January date).

A Revolutionary War List of Instructions for Infantry Formations

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document. “Miscellaneous Evolutions” [docket title]. [1775]. 2 pp. 7¼ x 11¾ in.

Captain Samuel Leighton Signs His Company’s Muster Roll

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document Signed by Samuel Leighton. “Muster Roll of Capt Samuel Leighton’s Company in the 30th Regt of Foot Commanded by Col.o James Scamman Belonging to the Army of the United Colonies of North America 12th Septbr 1775.” 1 p., 30 x 17 ¾ in.

A New Hampshire and Maine Company in the Siege of Boston

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document, “Muster Roll of Capt. Samuel Leighton’s Company...,” Cambridge, Mass., September 12, 1775. 1 p.

A Particularly Large Muster Roll for Captain Leighton’s New Hampshire and Maine Company at the Siege of Boston

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document. “Muster Roll of the Company under the Command of Captain Samuel Leighton in Colonel James Scamman’s Regiment to the first of August 1775,” Cambridge, [Mass.], December 1775. 1 p., 30 x 17¾ in.

A New Hampshire and Maine Company at the Siege of Boston

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document. “Return Cap.t of Samuel Leighton Company in the 30th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel James Scamman,” Kittery, [Mass.], May – July 1775. 1 p., 12 x 14¾ in. Docketed “Muster Role…Oct.r 3.d 1775”

A New Hampshire and Maine Company in the Siege of Boston, with Three Deserters

[SIEGE OF BOSTON], Manuscript Document. “Return Cap.t of Samuel Leighton Company in the 30th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel James Scamman,” Kittery, [Mass.], May – July 1775. 1 p., 15⅛ x 12¾ in.