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In Committee of Safety, July 13, 1776.
You are hereby authorized to inlist fifty good, able-bodied, and effective men, officers included, to serve as soldiers under
The men you inlist are to be paid thirty shillings as a bounty, and assure them they shall receive forty shillings per month when your roll is made up. And the Company are to choose a Lieutenant, Ensign, and two Sergeants. You, as Captain, shall receive £6, your Lieutenant £4, and Ensign £3, each Sergeant 48s˙ per month. The Captain, Lieutenant, and Ensign, to receive no bounty.
To Captain Jeremiah Eames.
Instructions from the New-Hampshire Committee of Safety to Captain Eames
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you for three months, (unless sooner discharged,) as scouting parties, to make their Head-Quarters at Great Cohos; not taking more than ten of the inhabitants of said Great Cohos in the number. And you are to make return, as often as you can conveniently, of your routes, discoveries, &c˙, &c˙, to Colonels Bayley, Hurd, and Charles Johnson, at Lower Cohos, and take their instructions from time to time for your future conduct.