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to doe either; and to appoint some time when the Counsell
shall attend you for it, betweene this & Monday next. So
humbly take leave to rest
Yo^r servant
S. Johns. 9^th Jan: 1644 John Lewger

Liber P. R.

1644
January 9. wheras the ffreemen inhabiting within S^t
Georges hundred, did (as I am informed) in the beginning of
August last consent for the helping of their quiett & safety
ags^t the Indian enemy, to find for their part a souldiar w^th all
necessaries in the garrison then appointed at Pascatoway, w^ch
souldiar hath served in the said garrison from the said begin-
ning of August vntill the 6^th of this month. These are to will
& require you without delay after sight hereof, to assemble all
the ffreemen of your hundred of S^t George, to such place & at
such time as you shall think fittest, & together w^th them or the
maior part of them so assembled, to heare & determine the
demand of the said souldiar, or of any other, for any wages or
other charge pteining to the said service or to his part toward
it; and to assesse the said charge ratably vpon all pticular
ffreemen of the hundred, in such manner as to you and the
said ffreemen so assembbled, or the maior part of them shall
seeme fittest. And if any shall refuse to consent to the making
of such assessm^t or to the payment of it being made, to signifie
his or their name vnto me without delay, to the end such
course may be taken therin as to Justice shall apperteine. And
for so doing this shalbe yo^r Commission.
Given &c.
To Tho: weston of S^t George's
hundred mch^t

All that have any demand to make for wages or any other
charge laid out toward the service of the late garrison at pas-
catoway, are required to putt in their demand sometime afore
the day of, to Jo. Lewger Tho. Gerard Esq^es Tho.
weston mcht. Tho. Sterman; or one of them, who are appointed
to take all the accompts therof & vpon the said day to
divide the charge therof in the duest maner they may vpon
the severall hundreds : and each of them in the severall hun-
dreds wherin they inhabite respectively are afterward to
assemble the freemen of their hundred, & by their consent to
assesse the charge of the hundred vpon the pticular freemen
ratably or otherwise in such maner as they shall think fittest in
every hundred respectively.

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