We went over the
River Early to receive our rations in provision and in money and we marched 2
Miles and stoped and refreshed ourselves their half an hour and Lieut. Smith
came up and we received our Abilitan money.1
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1 Billeting-money—that
is, money to pay for lodgings at private houses. When soldiers are quartered at
private houses, it is said that such ones are billeted at such
a house, &c.
SOURCE: Abraham
Tomlinson, Editor, The Military Journals
of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775, p. 13