![[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.] [CONVENTION ARMY.] Document signed, 4 November 1777, a bond by Seth Sumner, Thomas Crane, and Jonathan Winship, in connection with their duties to supply Burgoyne’s “Convention Army” of British prisoners taken at Saratoga. 1 ½ pages, folio, closed tear along lower left edge, repairs along left edge and to folds on verso.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/NYR/2015_NYR_11610_0074_000(revolutionary_war_convention_army_document_signed_4_november_1777_a_bo102224).jpg?w=1)
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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.] [CONVENTION ARMY.] Document signed, 4 November 1777, a bond by Seth Sumner, Thomas Crane, and Jonathan Winship, in connection with their duties to supply Burgoyne’s “Convention Army” of British prisoners taken at Saratoga. 1 ½ pages, folio, closed tear along lower left edge, repairs along left edge and to folds on verso.
SUPPLYING BURGOYNE'S CAPTIVE ARMY
Sumner, Crane and Winship agree to pay the Massachusetts Treasurer, Henry Gardner, the sum of £2,000 on condition that “Seth Sumner is appointed one of the Commissioners for supplying the Troops under General Burgoyne (now prisoner in this State) with the various sorts of provisions brought to Boston Market, the produce of the United States, that the aid prisoners shall need over & above their rations…” Burgoyne’s captive forces became a source of contention between the Congress and the British crown, as the Americans remained suspicious that the British sought to evade the terms of surrender. The Americans, for their part, devised pretexts for NOT complying with plans to embark the POWs from Boston. Instead, the troops were moved through various of the mid-Atlantic States over the following years, and those who had not died, deserted or been exchanged, were still on American soil by the time the war ended.
SUPPLYING BURGOYNE'S CAPTIVE ARMY
Sumner, Crane and Winship agree to pay the Massachusetts Treasurer, Henry Gardner, the sum of £2,000 on condition that “Seth Sumner is appointed one of the Commissioners for supplying the Troops under General Burgoyne (now prisoner in this State) with the various sorts of provisions brought to Boston Market, the produce of the United States, that the aid prisoners shall need over & above their rations…” Burgoyne’s captive forces became a source of contention between the Congress and the British crown, as the Americans remained suspicious that the British sought to evade the terms of surrender. The Americans, for their part, devised pretexts for NOT complying with plans to embark the POWs from Boston. Instead, the troops were moved through various of the mid-Atlantic States over the following years, and those who had not died, deserted or been exchanged, were still on American soil by the time the war ended.