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To the Honourable Provincial Congress

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TO THE HONOURABLE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

The Petition of Officers belonging to Colonels PRESCOTT, FRYE, and BRIDGES' S Regiments, humbly sheweth:

That whereas in the late battle at Charlestown, on the seventeenth of this instant, June, a number of things be

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longing to us fell into the enemy' s hands, whereby we are deprived of some necessary clothing, arms, &c˙: As the loss is considerable, we beg that (if it may be consistent with the honour and dignity of the Congress, and the good of the Country) they have an allowance for the same as your Honours shall see fit; and your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

Wm˙ PRESCOTT,
ISSAC ABBOTT,
EBENEZER BRIDGE,
ISSAC BROWN,
JAMES BRICKETT,
JONATHAN EVANS,
HENERY WOODS,
ASA LAWRENCE,
BENJAMIN AMES,
ABIJAH WYMAN,
JOHN DAVIS,
HENRY FARWELL,
JOHN NUTTING,
PETER COBURN,
NATHANIEL LAKIN,
JOHN FORD,
JOHN MOSHER,
JOHN FLINT.

June 27, 1775.

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