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And whereas the General Court
of the Province have Voted that a bounty
or Incouragement be granted and allowed to
be paid out of the public Treasury
to the Marching Forces that shall have been
employed for the Defence of the Eastern and
Western Frontiers from the first of the twenty-fifth
of this Instant November --I have thought
fit to publish the same and I do hereby Promis
that there shall be paid out of the Province
Treasury to all and any of the said Forces
over and above their Bounty upon inlistment,
their Wages and Subsistance the Premiums or
Bounty following viz.
For every Male Penobscot
Indian above the Age of twelve years that
shall be taken within the Time aforesaid
and brought to Boston Fifty Pounds.
For every Female
Penobscot Indian taken and brought in
as aforesaid and for Every Male Indian
Prisoner under the age of twelve Years taken
and brought in as aforesaid Twenty
five Pounds.
For every Scalp
of such Female Indian or Male Indian under
the Age of twelve years that Shall be killed
and brought in as Evidence of their
being killed as aforesaid, Twenty
pounds.
Given at the Council Chamber
in Boston this third day of November 1755
and in the twenty ninth Year of the Reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the second by
the Grace of God of Great Britain France and
Ireland King Defender of the Faith.
S. PHIPS
By his Honour's Command,
J. WILLARD, Secry.
God save the King.
Resolved That there
shall be allowed and paid out of the Public
Treasury to any Number of the Inhabitants
of this province, not in the pay
of the Government, Who shall be disposed to
go in quest of the Indian enemy, & shall
before they go signify in Writing to the Chief
Military Officer of Yt. part of the Province
from which they shall go, their Intentions,
with their names the following Bounty Vizt.
For every Indian Enemy that they shall kill
and produce the Scalp to the Gov. & Council
in Evidence, the Sum of three hundred Pounds.
For Every Indian Enemy that shall
Captivate & deliver to the Governor &
Council, the Sum of Three hundred and Twenty
pounds.
Also, --Voted, That the same allowance be
made to private Persons who shall captivate
or kill any of the Indian Enemy which is made
to soldiers on the Frontiers of the Province.
From Documentary History
of Maine (Baxter Mss. Vol. 24, p. 63)
(1) Spencer Phips was then Lieutenant Governor
of the Province of Mass.
Bay and was acting governor at this time.
(c) 1998
Courtesy of the Androscoggin Historical Society
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~meandrhs>
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