Instructions to Colonel Morey and Major Bellows

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INSTRUCTIONS TO COLONEL MOREY AND MAJOR BELLOWS.

In Committee of Safety, Exeter, January 31, 1776.

To ISRAEL MOREY and JOHN BELLOWS, Esquires:

As you, by vote of the Council and Assembly of this Colony, are appointed Mustermasters and Paymasters to the regiment raising for Canada, you are hereby directed, out of the money you have received from the Treasury, to pay each soldier you shall muster, being an able-bodied, effective man, and well accoutred, forty shillings, lawful money, as a bounty, and two months wages to each commissioned officer, also one month' s pay to each non-commissioned officer and soldier, at the rates established by the Continental Congress, and assist in providing for and forwarding the regiment with all speed, and make return of your doings as soon as may be to the General Court of this Colony, or Committee of Safety. You are likewise to observe that the soldiers that receive the Colony guns are to be informed that they are to allow one dollar for the use of the same; and should they not be returned at the end of the campaign, they are to pay therefor forty-five shillings, lawful money, each; and the officers are to take care that the above stoppages are to be made upon making up the muster-rolls.

By order of the Committee: MESHECH WEARE.