Militia Roll

“We whose Names are Under written thinking our Selves Ignorant in the Military Art and Willing to be Instructed met last Teusday and made choice of M^r Joseph Robbins as our Cap^t & M^r Israel Heald Lieut M^r Robert Chaffin Insigⁿ and then Adjurnt to this Day and have Accordingly Met Together to Chuse the other officers and to form our Selves into a Militia Company and we agree to Meet at Such Times as Shall be Set by the Comp^y and Observe Good order in our Proceeding as witness our hands Acton Septemb^r 29^th 1774”

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This is a pretty typical (and handsome) enrollment agreement for a militia company, written in the month before the concept of Minute Men received official sanction (by the Provincial Congress’ October order to set aside a minute company in each town’s militia). The name of Oliver Wheeler Jun^r appears in the first column, about half-way down.

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