Soldiers

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Whereas some of the Soldiers who have been engaged in the service of this Colony the year past are deceased, and the Estates left by the said deceased are not sufficient to influence any person to administer thereon:

Therefore Resolved, That the Receiver-General be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to pay unto the Heirs next akin to the above-mentioned Soldiers, the respective sums that may be due to them on the Muster-Rolls, on the said Heirs producing a certificate from the Selectmen of the town where the said deceased Soldiers had their abode, that they are the Heirs next akin to the said deceased, and that there is not estate enough to influence the Heirs to take administration.

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And It is further Resolved, That the Receiver-General aforesaid is hereby directed to pay unto the Soldiers engaged in the service of this Colony, the several sums that have been stopped out of their wages for Fire-Arms, on their producing certificates from the persons from whom they received the said Fire-Arms, that they have returned the same, and that they have satisfied the owners of such Arms for the use thereof.

In, the House of Representatives: Ordered, That — be a Committee, with such as the honourable Board may join, to procure the Resolves of the Continental and Provincial Congresses printed.

In Council: Read, and concurred, and Benjamin White, Esquire, is joined.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, to James Prescott, Esquire, the sum of four Pounds eighteen Shillings and eight Pence, in full for the loss sustained by his son Benjamin being killed in the battle of Bunker' s Hill.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, to James Prescott, Esquire, the sum of five Pounds, for the use of David Kemp, in full of his losses in the battle of Bunker' s Hill.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the publick Treasury of this Colony, to Elisha Frizell, the sum of three Pounds, in full for a Gun and Bayonet broken in the battle of Bunker' s Hill.

Adjourned to nine o' clock, to-morrow morning.