THE MILITIA REGISTER. Agreeably to a Law Passed June the 22nd 1793. This Book has been Preserved for the Company of Cavalry Now Commanded by Captain John Conant to be Kept by the Clerk as an Orderly Book of Said Company

      Publisher: Not published - Date of Publication: 1807 - Binding: Hardcover - Edition: No edition - Condition: Good condition - Description: Quarto (4to) Signed 62 pages of (handwritten) manuscript text; kept between July 23, 1807 and May 4, 1830. Full leather binding with moderate rubbing to extremities, with hinges cracked and some pages loose. Spine is darkened from staining, with some curling and loss of leather. Sylvanus Dodge, father of Grenville Mellen Dodge (born April 13, 1831), served as clerk of the Company of Calvary, Massachusetts Militia, 1828-1830. Sergeant Dodge made the final entry in this register. Apparently, Sylvanus Dodge retained the register and it was kept in the family. At some time his son Grenville Mellen Dodge, probably as a youth, wrote (signed) his name in two pages of the register. G. M. Dodge is the son of Sylvanus and Julia Therese (Phillips) Dodge. U. S. Militia, Cavalry, Military. [Publisher: Not published]