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

[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.