Mem^o. of Cash & Clothing Subscribed to be given by Sundry

Persons for the Soldiers Belonging to this Town

in the North Company

Shirts

Stockings

Shoes

Cash

David Field Esq^r

1

1

1

Salah Barnard

2

1

David Sexton

2

Eldad Bardwell

1

1

1

Joseph Stebbins Jun^r

1

1

1

Jeremiah Nims

1

1

1

Joseph Barnard Jun^r

2

John Bardwell

1

1

Tho^s Bardwell Jun^r

1

1

Isaac Parker

1

1

Tho^s Wells

1

1

Levi Newton

1

1

Solomon Newton

1

Alpheus Newton

1

Cheliab Billing

1

Eben^r Wells

1

1

1

Augustus Wells

1

Aron Arms

1

Smith Hitchcock

1

1

1

Joseph Stebbins

3

George Herbert

1

Elihu Field

1

1

1

Tho^sW. Dickinson

1

1

£ 3

Daniel Fisk

6/

Old Mrs. Fisk Spining & niting 1 p^r Stocking

William Felton

1

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Supplying the Revolutionary troops with the bare necessities was difficult because the new nation had so little money. Ordinary Americans supported the war effort by providing clothing and food as well as by paying taxes. These residents of Deerfield, Massachusetts, pledged to supply shoes, shirts and breeches for Deerfield militiamen in 1778.

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