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Gentlemen—From the great Vivacity and Confidence that
we repose in your Honours, We hope therefore that you will
allow us most Honourable Gentlemen, an Addition to our Pay
in order to deviate our Pain and for our Labourous Work,
and most fateaguingest in Life and much more so than any
Company has gone through hitherto,—namely in building or
assisting to build Fortifications or Batteries, together, most
honourable Gentlemen, with the hard Feteagues of Guard,
namely one every other Day mounting, and still Gentlemen,
we are resolved that our Motto shall be Death or Glory.

Therefore, most honourable Gentlemen we hope your Hon-
ours will take your poor Petitioners Petition into your most
serious Consideration and consult deliberately thereon, and
give us a Grant, most honourable Gentlemen, of something
more than our present Pay, which will make a Retalliation or

Recompense for our hard Duty, and in so doing we shall be

in Duty bound to pray, Most honourable Gentlemen

The Royal Train of Artillery
God bless this Congress and direct our General

	[G. Goldsborough to Council.]	Original.
	Chester Town 18th Sepe 1776. Gent. I find from the number of Blankets I shall have occasion to purchase for my Compy and other things neces- sary, shall at least stand in need of £150 cash to defray my Expenses to Philadelphia, hope therefore you will be so obliging to give me an order on Western Shore Treasurer for that sum there are 14 new, prov'd, well fitted muskets in town which when compleated may be purchased at £ 4. 10. 0, would beg to have the liberty to purchase them in order that we may be dispatched from hence. Mr Winters cannot com- pleat ours so soon as I could wish. I am Genl yr very obedt & Hble Servt Greenbury Goldsborough
	Thursday Sepr 19th 1776 Council met. Present as on yesterday. Ordered That W: Shore Treasurer pay to James Roystone two Pounds, six shillings and six Pence for Amt of Acct Mr Tilghman attended. James Cunningham and Willm Tomlinson permitted to pass thro' any parts of the Western shore, and not to depart with- out Leave of this Board, they being Prisoners from Lord Dun- more 's Fleet.	C. S. J.