Moses Sleeper

This will be episode eight, so you're, you'll listen to the previous seven to understand what's going on.

We're reading from Moses Sleeper's diary from the Revolutionary War, and we're reading from nps.gov.

The link is below.

You can follow along while we're reading from this site.

Um, we left off start- where we were gonna start on January 1776.

New Year, new enlistment.

With the new year, Moses Sleeper entered into his new term of enlistment in the Continental Army.

In the new enlistment, he returned to his company, now re-reorganized under the 12th Continental Regiment.

Go to radio.newheightseducation.org, click on Pamela Clark, and scroll down to Revolutionary War, and listen to that section from the beginning before you listen to today's show.

Because we've been reading from Moses Sleeper's diary.

It was from the Civil, or not Civil, from the Revolutionary War.

And we have been going in order.

It says R-E-C-D.

One month's pay for Brother John and one month's pay for Babson.

Moses Sleeper appears to have arranged to collect pay on behalf of his brother John and likely private Nathaniel Babson of Newberry Port.

who had also joined the Canada expedition from Luntz Company in September.

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It has October the 10th.

It was a Wednesday, and it's crossed out.

All that are carpenters in ye have several regiments, yet have not joined the carpenters' party.

To join tomorrow morning, the colonels of ye several regiments are requested to see, yet this order is strictly complied with.

Moses Sleeper's civilian occupation as a cabinetmaker both qualified him and required him to join the carpenters' gang.

In orders issued in August, Green had exempted those working as carpenters from turning out at alarm posts in the morning and instructed them, quote, to do no duty but that of ye carpent business unless there is an alarm, end of quote.