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In Memory of
Capt. Jeremiah Putnam,
Who died Sept. 16, 1799
Aged 63 Years
An Officer under the Immor-
tal Washington

This modest stone ???????????

Putnam, Jeremiah, Danvers.Private, Capt. Jeremiah Page's co.; service, 2 days, probably on the alarm of April 19, 1775; also, Capt. Addison Richardson's co., Col. Mansfield's regt.; order for advance pay, signed by said Putnam and others, dated Cambridge, June 8, 1775; also, receipt given to Capt. Addison Richardson by David Arrington, in behalf of said Putnam and others, dated Cambridge, for wages due to Aug. 1, 1775; also, Sergeant, Capt. Richardson's co., Col. Mansfield's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; engaged May 11, 1775; service, 2 mos. 25 days; also, Capt. Richardson's co., Col. Mansfield's (19th) regt. commanded by Lieut. Col. Israel Hutchinson; company receipt for wages for Sept., 1775, dated Camp at Winter Hill; also, company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Winter Hill, Oct. 27, 1775; also, Sergeant, Capt. Richardson's (5th) co.; copy of a list of men taken from the Orderly Book of Col. Israel Hutchinson, of the 27th regt., dated Fort Lee; reported taken prisoner at Fort Washington Nov. 16, 1776; also, Ensign, (late) Col. Hutchinson's regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Jan. 24, 1778; also, same regt.; petition addressed to the Council, dated boston, Aug. 16, 1777, signed by Col. Israel Hutchinson, representing that certain officers who belonged to his regiment in 1776, and other officers not of his regiment, were prisoners at Long Island, and recommending that advance pay for 1 month be sent to each officer; also, draft of a letter of instructions from the Council to Capt. Thomas Randall, dated Nov. 3, 1777, directing him to effect the exchange of said Putnam, an Ensign, and other prisoners at Long Island, for British prisoners to be forwarded to New York in a cartel; also, list of prisoners dated Feb. 24, 1778, to be exchanged for British prisoners under parole, to be returned by Col. Johonnott; said Putnam to be exchanged for Ensign Johnson; reported confined at Long Island; also, Captain, Col. Nathaniel Wade's regt.; commissioned March 14, 1778; also, Captain, Col. Wade's regt.; service from March 14, 1778, to Dec. 31, 1778, 9 mos. 21 days, at Rhode Island; roll sworn to at East Greenwich; also, same regt.; muster roll dated North Kingston, Nov. 6, 1778; also, same regt.; muster rolls dated East Greenwich, Sept. [p.869] 17, Oct. 14, and Nov. 13, 1778; term to expire Jan. 1, 1779; also, Captain, Col. Nathan Tyler's regt.; return dated Newburyport, Sept. 18, 1779, made by Enoch Titcomb, M. B., of men ordered to be raised from the Essex Co. brigade June 8, 1779, to serve at Providence; reported as belonging to 8th regt.; marched in July, 1779; also, Captain, Col. Tyler's regt.; list of officers of a regiment ordered to be detached to serve at Rhode Island until Jan. 1, 1780, agreeable to resolve of June 8, 1779; commissioned July 13, 1779; also, same regt.; return of effectives, dated Camp Providence, Oct. 2, 1779; also, Captain, Col. Tyler's regt.; engaged July 1, 1779; service to Dec. 1, 1779, 5 mos., at Rhode Island; also, same regt.; pay roll for Dec., 1779, allowing 1 mo. 5 days service at Rhode Island, travel (95 miles) included. 2

Cemetery: Porter/High Street Cemetery, Danvers Massachusetts

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