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fiances as well as the Enemies, will direel you therein, We 

 leave the Conduct thereof to your own difcretion '. But that 

 the want of Provifion, &c. may be no Remora to your Mo- 

 tion, you may pleafe to know Mr. Ge afford 162 One of our 

 principal Inhabitants now refiding in Bofton, hath promifed 

 to take care to fupply to the value of tzvo or three hundred 

 Pounds, if occafion require'. We pray a few lines by the 

 bearer to give us a profpeel of what we may expeel for our 

 further Encouragement, and remain, 



Sir, Your Obliged Friends and Servants, 

 Will. Vaughan Charles Froft William Fernald 166 

 Francis Hooke 103 Nathanael Fryer Robert Elliott. 167 

 Richard Martyn 164 John Wincol 105 



A True Copy of the Original Letter', zvhicli Letter was 

 prcfented to me by Capt. Hatch, 108 who came Exprefs. 



162 I find no trace of this man, un- a bricklayer, admitted to inhabit at 

 lefs he were William Gifibrd, who was Bofton 28 Feb., 1654. [Drake's Hijl. 



163 F ran ds Hoohe was fon of Hum- Eng. ; lived at Kittery, Me. ; was Mag- 

 phrey, Alderman of the city of Briftol, iftrate, 1666 ; Captain ; Treafurer of 



164 Richard Martin {Martins) was at feer" of John Cutt's will, 6 May, 1680; 

 Portfmouth, N.H. ; was made "over- had the firft place in "the front feat 



165 John Wincol (Wincoln, Wincall, of Watertown ; freeman there 6 May, 

 Winkell, Winkle) was fon of Thomas, 1646; feletftman, 1649, 56,61,62; Depu- 



16*) William Fernald was eldeft fon of fometimes wrote it, Renald), who was 

 Reginald (or, as he himfelf, at least, the firft furgeon among the New-Hamp- 



™ Robert Eliot (Fliott, Elliot, mouth, 1660 ; of Cafco, before 1670 ; of 

 Elliott) feems to have been of Portf- Scarborough foon after, where he was 



168 Philip Hatch, who was freeman, 1652, York, Me., or one of his fons? 

 [Savage's Gen. Did. ii : 375.] 



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