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I utterly Denyd and Protested against) by Inlisting Men in this Case & the Govr. Discharging them. Your Excellency would be under obligation to Set them free as these Troops are under Your Immediate Direction and Said everything I Could to Show the Ill Consequence That would attend this Management, Not only as it would Prevent any future force from New England coming this way. But also had a direct tendency to hinder any Provincial Troops from Joyning the Regular Forces, In any part of America and was Morally Shure that that would be the Consequence in New England. and Said Every thing else that I Could. His Excellency Replyd that he has the Kings absolute orders to fill up these Regiments Upon any Part of the Continent & no Person nor Place was exempt. And that it would be as Much as his Commission was worth to forbid Men from Inlisting & that the Necessity of the Case required it, and that he had informed his Officers that if the Men were Discharged by your Excellency the Money they advanced would be their loss and he did not medle in it. I Could not help observing that it was him & him only that Could be answerable for that. If his Excellency would Stop giving Discharges I would Soon put an End to the Affair by a General Court Martial on the Penalty on the Article of War which forbids Men Inlisting Out of one Regiment to another without being first Discharged from the Regiment to which they belong. To this I have received no answer. These affairs have given me more anxiety that the taking of Four Beausejour would have done or lying in Camp the whole Winter or all the past Fatigues of my Life. Thus I have Let your Excellency into the most Material Parts of this Unhappy affair, and must humbly beg your Particular direction for my Future Conduct in this Novel Intricate affair. I Yesterday waited on the Govr. and Begd leave to make a Tour to Boston To wait on your Excellency in Person, and urged that we had no danger to fear from the Enemy at this Season of the year & were well officered but was Denyed as so good a Man Could not be Spared. But as matters are Circumstanced I must Humbly beg your Excellencys Permission to wait on you pr first Conveyance. Unless your Excellency thinks proper to withdraw This Battallion from this Part of the Goverment. Really I Cant See that we are of any Consequence here. Unless their is a Scheme to keep us Longer then the time the Men were Inlisted for. Which should it be the Case, Must beg Liberty to resign the Commission your Excellency has been so good as to bestow upon me. And Should we be Drawn off I think Sooner the better, as to the Second Battallion I apprehend they cannot be removed till the Spring. Capts Adams, Hobbs & Osgood are yet at Menis. But expected here every Day. Our Men are in Good Quarters and well Beded. Mr. Phillips gives his Duty to your Excellency and Please to accept the Same from Your Excellencys Most Obliged most Obedient and most Humble Servant. |
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