Citation - Boston News Letter: 1740.07.17

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Index Entry Drummers, in Massachusetts regiment, pay established 
Location Boston 
Citation
BNL.740.025
10-17 Jul 1740:11 (1895)
[Proclamation by Mass. and New-Hampshire Gov. Belcher re.
War against Spanish in West-Indies to raise a body of
North-American colonies troops, 3d para.:]  That each
company shall consist of one hundred men including four
serjeants, four corporals and two drummers besides
commission officers . . . [16 lines] That all the serjeants,
corporals, drummers and private soldiers shall be entitled
to receive his Majesty's pay from the respective days they
shall be enlisted. . . [31 lines + 4 paras.]


Generic Title Boston News Letter 
Date 1740.07.17 
Publisher Draper, John 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1740 
Bibliography B0008712
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