Item 1: Oversized Item: Photostat of Payroll to Zebulon Butler’s Company, (removed to Map Drawer #1), 1759

Item — Box: 10, Folder: 1

Dates

Created: 1759

Creator

Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795 (Person)

Access:

All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.

Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Photostat of payroll

Condition Note:

Good

Measurements:

18in x 16in.

Title:

“A Payroll of Captain Zebulon Butler’s Company of the fourth Continental Regiment commanded by Eleazer Fitch Esq. Railey in the year 1759”

Description:

This following item, dated 1759, is a photocopy of the payroll to Zebulon Butler’s company in 1759. The document lists the names of officers and their enlistments within the company. The purpose of the document was to ascertain the pay deserved by each of the officers' service. The original document within our collection was sent to the Connecticut Historical Society in 1958. We now hold only the photostat of the original. Many of the men listed on the roll appear to be from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, serving under Fitch and Butler. The company under Butler is that which fought during the French and Indian War, 1754-1763. This war was a conflicting wrought of competing claims to the lands surrounding the Ohio River, which both British and French claims sought control over the area for fur trade and land acquisition. Alternate spelling for the names has been identified by a comparing it with a muster roll of the same company in the Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, text, found on page 169.