Commonwealth of Massachusetts. : The committee of both Houses, appointed to consider the petition of Jeduthan Wellington, late lt. col. commandant of the First Regiment in the First Brigade and Third Division of the Militia of this commonwealth, praying that the sentence of a court martial may be reversed, have attended that service, and find, from official documents ...

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Austin, Nathaniel, approximately 1720-1798.
• Russell, Joshua.
• Hopkins, Samuel.

Series:

• Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 15520.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Wellington, Jeduthan, 1750-1838.
• Massachusetts. Militia--Officers.
• Massachusetts. Militia--Organization.
• Massachusetts. Militia. Court-martial (Wellington : 1803).
• Massachusetts. General Court. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The committee of both Houses, appointed to consider the petition of Jeduthan Wellington, late lt. col. commandant of the First Regiment in the First Brigade and Third Division of the Militia of this commonwealth, praying that the sentence of a court martial may be reversed, have attended that service, and find, from official documents ...
• Massachusetts. General Court.
• Massachusetts. Militia.
• Judicial error--Massachusetts.
• Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--Massachusetts.
• Courts-martial and courts of inquiry.
• Judicial error.
• Organization.
• Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

26 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1808]

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Notes:

• The text of the General Court's report with commentary and documents relating to a proposed reorganization of the Legionary Brigade in the First Division of Militia issued to protest the report of the committee of the General Court which set aside the decision of the court-martial of Lt. Col. Wellington.
• Title from caption and first words of text.
• "The official documents, facts and observations, contained in this pamphlet, were collected and ordered to be printed by the committee, agreeably to an unanimous vote of the field officers, assembled at West Cambridge, on Thursday last, the 24th inst. March 28, 1808."--p. 24.
• Signed on p. 13: Nathaniel Austin, Jun. lt. col. com. 5th Reg. Infantry. Joshua Russell, lieut. com. of artillery. Samuel Hopkins, Jun. major 2d Reg. Infantry.
• Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 15520).

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