Receipt from B. Booth Boote to Josiah Isaacs(1781 June 20)
- MS 1982.8
- Microfilm: M-1561
- 1 item
Receipt from B. Boothe Boote, Commissary, to Josiah Isaacs for provisions of rum, whiskey, flour and rope linefor the British forces camped near Richmond. Docket in cypher on verso.
Benjamin Boothe Boote, lawyer and judge, of Salisbury, North Carolina was a loyalist who was imprisoned at Charleston, SC. early in the war. After he was released he joined the British Army. At the surrender at Yorktown, he became a prisoner once again. (Coldham, Peter. American Migrations, 1765–1799, Genealogical Press, 2000. p. 611)