Discharge of Samuel Burchard from the army, by Brigadier General James Wilkinson
Document 1801Discharge certificate of Corporal Samuel Burchard of Captain Francis Kinlock Huger's company, 2nd Regiment Artillerists and Engineers. Burchard lost his arm and is incapable of performing his duties. This entitles him to a pension from the government.
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BY
BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES WILKINSON,
Commanding the Army of the United States of America,
Samuel Burchard a Corporal of Captain Francis Winlock Hager's Company, in the Second Regiment of [undecipherable] Engineers having served Five years ten months is hereby discharged from the further service in which he was enlisted, conformably to law, as appears by his receipt indorsed. He has been paid, cloathed, and subsisted,
To prevent imposition, the following description of the said Samuel Burchard is annexed. He is twenty three years of age; Five feet nine inches high; has a dark complexion; brown hair; blue eyes; was born in the New Castle County, in the State of Delaware and is, by occupation, a Farmer.
GIVEN at Head-Quarters, on the Twenty fifth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Nine and the Independence of the United States of America, the Twenty fifth.
Registered.
[Signed] T. M. Cushing [Signed] Ja: Wilkinson
Majr & Inspr.
True Copy from the original
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Type
Copy of Signed Document
Description
Discharge certificate of Corporal Samuel Burchard of Captain Francis Kinlock Huger's company, 2nd Regiment Artillerists and Engineers. Burchard lost his arm and is incapable of performing his duties. This entitles him to a pension from the government.
Date
06/20/1801
Author
Document number
1801022800002
Page start
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Notable persons
James Wilkinson
Corporal Samuel Burchard
Captain Francis Kinlock Huger
2nd Regiment Artillerists and Engineers
Major Thomas Cushing
Notable items
pension
discharge

