This is a framed pay receipt dated January 15, 1819, for and signed by Robert Cutter at his discharge from the U.S. Army after the War of 1812, acknowledging his receipt of pay for November and December 1818 and for his travelling pay and rations for the 70-mile trip from Newport, R.I. where he had been discharged to Boston. This is signed by the paymaster, a sergeant as witness, and by Cutter himself. The Regiment of Light Artillery was organized April 12, 1808, and was composed of ten companies. Only one of these actually served in that capacity in 1808-1809, the rest of the time apparently serving as infantry until the War of 1812 when some of the companies were equipped as field artillery and for a short time as horse artillery. They were consolidated with several infantry regiments at the end of the war and in 1821 were distributed among the then existing four regiments of artillery. Born in Lancaster, Mass., Robert Cutter was a carpenter by profession and had first enlisted for five years in December 1808, serving as private in the 4^th US Infantry, and being taken a prisoner of war. He signed up again in 1813, becoming an artificer in Capt. Towson’s Company in the Regiment of Light Artillery and upon discharge from that regiment received a military land grant of 160 acres in February 1819, a month after signing this document. We show his land grant certificate and details from his enlistment. (We note his name has sometimes been mistaken as Cutler.)   [ld] [ph:L]

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