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.
[left margin: I do hereby certify to have received my Cloathing agreeably to law, Corporals 3 [undecipherable], 1 stock, 12 [undecipherable], 3 Blankets [undecipherable] Signed Samuel Burchard]
Samuel Burchard a Corporal of Captain
Francis Kinloch Huger's Company, in the Second Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers having
served Two years ten months and lost his right arm in the public service which renders him incapable of
performing the duties of a soldier and entitles him to a pension from Government,
is hereby discharged. He has been paid, clothed, and subsisted,
conformably to law, as appears by his receipt indorsed.
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 Twentieth
day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and One . . . . and of the Independence of the United States of America,
the Twenty fifth.
[seal]
Registered.
[Signed] T.H. Cushing
Major & Inspr
[Signed] Ja. Wilkinson
True Copy from the original.
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City of Washington December 24th 1801. Received of Lieut
Wollstonecraft [undecipherable] to 2d Rgt A.t & Engrs eighteen dollars
and fifty one Cents. in full of my pay to the 10th of May 1801 the date
of my discharge, and I do acknowledge to have received my cloathing
and Subsistence to the same time. Signed duplicates.
[Signed] Samuel Burchard
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Received December 14. 1801. of Lieut
Wollstonecraft [undecipherable] to Rgt A.t & Eng, the sum of seven dollars
being arrears pay as Corporal from 21. May 1801. to 10. June. 1801.
[He having been] discharged and [undecipherable] on the 20. May 1801.
as above [undecipherable]. Signed duplicates.
[Signed] Samuel Burchard
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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
1
Notable persons
James Wilkinson
Corporal Samuel Burchard
Captain Francis Kinlock Huger
2nd Regiment Artillerists and Engineers
Major Thomas Cushing
Notable items
pension
discharge


