Name/Title
Original Documents Relating to Stonington During the American RevolutionEntry/Object ID
2008.0906.0025Scope and Content
Hartford April 16 1777
Order to pay "Capt. Nathaniel Palmer Fifteen Pounds Seventeen Shillings & five pence for Service & disbursements in building the Fort at Stonington, also Five Hundred ninety four pounds Sixteen Shillings & six pence in discharge of his Accounts for Cheese to that amount by him taken & seized at Stonington by Order the Governor & Council of Safety .... to be in Accounts of Wages Subsistence & Premiums of the Company under his Command stationed at Stonington for Defence [sic] of the Sea Coast. Signed by Oliver Ellsworth and Jesse Root.
Order No. 6763
Nathan Palmer [apparently his name was misspelled in the order as Nathaniel Palmer?] as Captain in 1776, was placed in command of a Company of musket men at Stonington under the overall command of Maj. Jonathan Wells. Palmer succeeded Col Oliver Smith. In 1777 he was ordered to purchase or seize 20,000 pounds of cheese in Stonington for the State. He was able to obtain about 14,000 without causing undue hardship
Jesse Root was later a member of the Continental CongressCollection
American Revolution Collection