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JOURNAL OF COLONEL JOHN WINSLOW. |
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Under his Care, for which he gives receipts and is answerable. But the Fact I apprehend Capt. Sturtevant arrived the Night before last from Sackvile being relived by Capt. Lamson. And with him Capt. Speakmans Company Who being Sick at Dartmouth, Lievt. Winslow who has the Command of that Company here Desired to know what he Should do for Beds. I Directed him to the Quarter Master, Who he Informs me Applyed to his Excellency and from him had orders for Beds for that Company not before Provided for and of which I had Neither Knowledge nor Concern with til your Letter this Morning I have directed the adjutant to get returns of the Commanding officers of the Several Companys about this Harbour. But as part is here and Part at Dartmouth it will be an Day before I Shall Obtain it as Partys every Day Straggle. As to the Estate of the Four Companys at Piziquid and Sackvile I cannot Come at any Certainty about them. I here Some are Enlisted, some Drownd & Some Dead by Sickness but Expect the whole will be in the beginning of the Week. Am Sir your very Humble Servant,
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JOHN WINSLOW.
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To Mr. Henry Dobson, &c.
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HALIFAX, JANY 22, 1756.
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SIR,
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My Last to your Excellency was on the 19th December and as I have answers to Letters that went by the Same Confeyance Shant Trouble Your Excellency with repeating what is therein Contained, But Proceed to things not therein Mentioned, And would now Inform your Excellency That the time that our Men Inlisted for Many of them will be up the Next Month beginning on the 14th and some whole Companys were Inlisted in February, and I find by the officers that the Men are Determined To apply for their Discharge at the End of the Year for which they were Inlisted and that it is in the Instructions to all the officers who raised these Men to assure them that they Should be discharged at that time. as by the 3rd & 5th Articles in the Sd Instructions Which I now to Prevent your Excellency the Trouble to look for I have here Resighted viz The 3rd. You are to Inlist Each Man for one Year from the Date of his Enlistment and to assure them that they shall in every respect be Treated as Other his Majestys Forces Serving with them.
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5th. you are to assure them that they Shall be Discharged at the End of the Term Enlisted for or Sooner, if the Service will admit of it, and in many of the Inlistments it is directly Expressed that they are Inlisted for the Term of One Year. And they have all under Your Excellency's hand or Mine by your Order the following Certificate viz.
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Whereas Is Inlisted into the Regiment of Foot Under my Command now raising for the Defence of his Majestys Colonys in North America for the Term of One Year I Do hereby
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