Diary of Luke Gridley, Monday, April 18, 1757

this Day Reseved wages: Bounty furst month wages & Biliting: 3=18=9=0¹ genneral Limmons Com[pany]², marcht ye 18th April

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¹ The bounty this year was 42 shillings, the soldier to find clothes, powder-horn, and bullet-pouch; the wages for a private, £1 125. per month of 28 days; the allowance for billeting, 4s. per week. This would make £4 10s. for the first month; but the clothes were probably furnished by the colony and deducted.

² Lyman's personal company, the first.

SOURCE: Luke Gridley, Luke Gridley’s Diary of 1757, p. 23