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Granted, repofiing fpecial trnjl and confidence in your Loy- 

 alty, Prudence, cottrage and good conduct. I do by thefc 

 Prefcnts Conjiitute and Appoint you to be Major of the /aid 

 feveral Companies, both Englifh-Men and Indians, raifed 

 for His Majeflies Service upon the Encouragement afore- 

 faid. You are therefore carefully and diligently to perform 

 the duty of your place, by Leading, Ordering, and Excrcifing 

 the faid feveral Companies in A rms, both Inferiour Officers 

 and Soul-[8j']diers, keeping them in good Order and Dif- 

 cipliuc, commanding them to obey you as their Major. And 

 your felf diligently to intend His Majeflies Service for the 

 profecuting, purfuing, taking, killing or deflroying the faid 

 Enemy by Sea or Land; And to obferve all fuch Orders 

 and Inflruclions as you fliall from time to time receive from 

 my Self or Commander in chief for the time being, accord- 

 ing to the Rules and Difcipline of War, ptirfuant to the 

 trufl repofed in you. Given under my Hand & Seal at 

 Arms at Bofton, the Third Day of Auguft, 1696. In the 

 Eighth Year of the Reigii of Our Soveraign Lord William 

 the Third by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, 

 France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. 



Wm. STOUGHTON. 

 By Command of the Lieut. Governour, &c. 

 Ifaac Addington, Seer. 

 Province of the Maffachuletts-Bay. 



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