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