Approx. 47 lines, neatly written in ink, mostly in columns, listing various items supplied to these two families of Revolutionary soldiers Joseph Doubleday and Ephriam Robertson, the dates of purchase, the actual cost (in pounds, shillings and pence) and the lesser amount deducted from the pay of said soldiers, the remainder to be made up by the Selectmen of Coventry. With the ink names, but apparently not signatures, of Selectmen Jeremiah Shipley, Joseph Juliott and Jacob Lyman at the bottom of the document. Docketed on the reverse. 16¼x13¼.

Fascinating and revealing manuscript document from the early years of the American Revolution, demonstrating the manner by which enlistees in the Continental Army were compensated in ways beyond their meager pay. By such subsidies ordered by the town councils, the soldiers were assured that their absence from farm or trade would not hinder their families' chances to survive. In addition, the document provides a glimpse at the supplies needed to cope during the last quarter of the eighteenth century in America, and the prices charged for them. Many bushels of rye were bought, plus wheat, Indian corn, and other grains. Also pork, wood, potatoes, sugar, women's shoes, flax, tallow, etc., etc.