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me of the whole or whatt part your honours think fitt of wages due for the
time my husband son & servants have bene In the Service of the Country
which shall further Ingage your poor petitioner to pray for As In duty Am
Bound : the future peace & prosperity of your honours & All the people
of God In this poor Country. Mary Turner.
In Ans r to the petion, It is ordered that the Committee of the Army
forthwith order the petitioner be payd Seven pounds on y e Account exprest
therein.
Dated at Boston the 24 th of Aprill 1676
By y e Council Edw 3 Rawson, Sec ty .
Mass. Archives, Vol. 68, p. 225.
Letter of Capt. William Turner.
Honored Sirs.
Since the army marcht hence under the Command of major general
Savage and left mee here by order from your honours : I have not had
any thing worth sending downe A post: And now having an opportunity
I thought meete to acquaint your honours that the souldiers here are in
greate clistresse for want of clothing both Linen and Woollen : So I desired
the Commissaries here to send downe to quabouge to see if there any supplies
: So they brought from thence A few Shirts Stockings Shoes and
drawers : but not an eighth of what wee want : So that I shall beseech
your honours to take some speedy Course for a supply to be sent to the
Commissaries here for thei[r] [relejeafe : here will want much as the enclosed
note will show you : , forasmuch as it hath pleased your hon-
ours to commit the care of [these] townes to my Charge : so I shall beseech
your honours that my [wi]fe may have my wages due to mee for to
supply the wants of my family : for whome I am bound by the lawes of
god and nature to make provision : And I should be glad if there might be
some fitter person found for this imployment : for I much doubt my weaknes
of body and my often infirmities will hardly Sufer mee to doe my duty
as I ought in this imployment : And it would grieve me to be negligent in
anything that might be for the good of this yeare Country in this day of
their distress : Therefore shal leave it to your honours Consideration
whether some other man may not be fitter to
reason of my weaknes of body : I have here
be imployed in this place by
sent you those Lists of my
Company as they came from boston and afterwards from marlborough as
they Continued to the seventh instant: also an account from the Commissary
of northamton to that day : I have also sent A List of those Left the
7 th instant under my Command in these 3 townes : most of them having
beene here long before my time : Thus hoping your honours will Consider
so as to send some speedy supply for the souldiers here and also order something
for the supply of my family in my absence : I shall beg the Lord to
be your Counsellour and guide in this time of distracktion and sore trouble
: And remaine yours to serve your honours to the uttmost of my power
wherein I may.
Will: Turner.
I beseech your honours deliver these lists to whome they may concerne
And command the souldiers to make hast backe to their quarters
Your honours since y® close of this there is come in a young man taken
from Springfield at the beginning of last month who informes that the enemy
is drawing up all their forces towards these townes : and their head
quarters to be at (Deere) field alias pegunkugg.
Dated 25 April, 1676. Mass. Archives, Vol. 68, p. 228.
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