Certificate of Cuffee Wells’s purchase of freedom

Statement in which Richard Lamb and John Nutter verify that Cuffee Wells enlisted in the Continental Army in May 1777 and earned a bounty of 30 pounds which he used to purchase his freedom from his master. Cuffee Wells served as a private in the 4th Connecticut Regiment and worked as a surgical assisstant to Dr. Philip Turner, surgeon general of the hospital of the Northern Division of the Army.