Talk:5th Massachusetts Regiment

I have found contradictory information as to the assignment of a Colonel Mansfield of the Continental Army

I have found contradictory information as to the assignment of a Colonel Mansfield of the Continental Army. Based on this document, Mansfield was in charge of the 19th Regiment. It also appears that Colonel John Nixon was in charge of the 5th Regiment from at least April 24th through December 1775.

In MASSACHUSETTS Soldiers and Sailors Revolutionary War. A COMPILATION FROM THE ARCHIVES. http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=afterminal&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Research+%26+Technology&L2=Government+Data+%26+Documents&L3=State+Documents+%26+Resources&L4=State+Documents+Online&sid=Eoaf&b=terminalcontent&f=lib_ourorganization_governmentdocs_soldiersandsailors&csid=Eoaf

PREPARED AND PUBLISHED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH In accordance with Chapter 100, Resolves OF 1891. BOSTON : WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 18 Post Office Square. 1902.

Mansfield, John, Lynn. Lieutenant Colonel, in command of 1st Essex Co. regt.; service, 6 days, on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; also, copy of a letter from Timothy Pickering, Jr., to the Committee of Safety, dated Salem, May 1, 1775, recom- mending said Mansfield, Lieutenant Colonel, of Lynn, and Capt. Israel Hutchinson, of Danvers, for Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel, respectively, of a regiment to be raised in Salem and vicinity; also. Colonel, 19th regt.; engaged May 3, 1775; service, 3 mos. 5 days ; also, orders of the day, dated Caml)ridge, May 25, June 3, July 3, and July 7, 1775, taken from Lieut. Col. Loammi Baldwin's Orderly Book ; said Mansfield, Colonel, reported as officer of the day for May 26, June 3, June 4, July 4, and July 8 ; also, general order dated Headquarters, Cambridge, July 22, 1775, making disposition of the forces about Boston and dividing the army into 3 grand divisions to consist of 2 brigades each ; said Mansfield, Colonel of a regi- ment assigned to a brigade to be commanded by Brig. Gen. Sullivan which was to form part of left wing, or 2d division, of the army under Maj. Gen. Lee, and to be stationed at Winter Hill ; also. Colonel, 19th regt. ; list of field and staff officers appearing on a return of Capt. Ezra Newhall's co., dated Oct. 6, 1775; reported cashiered Sept. -, 1775; also, Colonel; copy of a list of men belonging to Lynn, now called L3'nn, Lynnfield, and Saugus, who served at Concord battle and else- where [year not given]. Minuteman041975 (talk) 19:37, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

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