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showing that six shillings per week was the wages of a private in
the service of Massachusetts Colony at this time ; and there is not,
that I am aware, any other direct proof of this, or any statement,
except that given below, showing the wages of soldiers at that time.
My own calculations agree with those of Mr. Sheldon, of Deerfield,
that this was the price. This will show the time of their service up
to February 5th to be five weeks, and £01 10 00 will represent the
wages of those who were discharged at that time, and by this reckoning
they entered the service Saturday, January 1st. I think
thirty shillings was captains' pay, and Capt. Brocklebank's credit of
£7 10 00 covers the same time.
I have found one other confirmation of my own calculations that
this was the rate, viz., a bill presented by Serg't Ezekiel Woodward 119
of Maj. Appleton's company, in which his pay was for nine weeks
as a common soldier, £2 14 00, and lie petitions for sergeant's pay.
This shows the term of service in the Narragansett campaign to be-
gin Saturday, Dec. 4th, as it closed, we know, on Feb. 5th.
119 Serg't Woodward had been under Maj. Applcton in the Fall Campaign, but in the
Narragansett Campaign served in Capt. Gardner's company, and was there credited. Many
of the veterans were thus transferred and acted as ofifi ers to the newly raised companies,
without their rank and pay being officially credited by the Council, as the promotions were
made in the field, and the stress of events precluded formalities and details in discipline.