Source: "A Muster Roll of Capt John Doughty's Company in Coll. Lamb's Regiment of Artillery in the Service of the United States, Taken from the Date of Inlistment to 31 May 1777," June 9, 1777, image 2, Folder 41, "2d Regiment of Artillery (1777-83)," "Continental Troops," US, Revolutionary War Rolls, Manuscript Publication Number M246, Record Group 93, National Archives and Records Administration. Digitized to Fold3 by Ancestry, https://www.fold3.com/image/9950449/41-page-2-us-revolutionary-war-rolls-1775-1783.
Had to pull this muster roll out of my files to cross-reference the spelling of a man's name for the TAI scene I'm working on, and I love looking at this roll whenever I have the excuse to because its so neat to see the amount of men listed here who had been with this artillery company while it was under Alexander Hamilton's command.
While Hamilton was officially made a member of Washington's staff on March 1, 1777 [x], many of the men in Hamilton's artillery company did not receive their discharges until March 24.[x] This muster roll shows that many, such as Isaac Johnson (who had been in the company since March of the previous year [x]), decided to reenlist the same day, staying in the company under its new command. Alongside receiving a new captain, the company was reorganized from New York's militia into Colonel John Lamb's Continental Artillery Regiment on March 17, 1777 (see Wright, Robert K. The Continental Army Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1983, pp. 337-338).
The most satisfying thing this roll reveals, though? That Thomas Thompson (a sergeant and later third lieutenant under Hamilton) was commissioned as Doughty's captain-lieutenant--just as Hamilton himself had recommended to the New York Convention in a letter of March 6, 1777.[x]
