The Baxter Manuscripts volume 12

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The Baxter Manuscripts volume 12
James Phinney Baxter
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Boston April 10, 1782 To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court Assembled T[ The Memorial of Lieut Col Ezra Badlam of the 8*'' Reg* Humbly Sheweth ^ That your Memorialist having been appointed by the Honorable Secretary at War together with one Commissioned Officer as an Assistant to muster and re- ceive the Recruits delivered at the Post of Boston begs leave to apply for such help k direction from your Honours as the Importance o
...f his Trust and the public Good requires — and humbly to represent to the General Court what aid and assistance may be necessary to enable Your Memorialist to discharge his duty with that Energy & Spirit in which the service, and the public Good of this State are so particularly OF THE STATE OF . MAINE 461 Interested — | Whereas in your Honor's resolve of the I''* of March last is appointed four places of Rendezvous at which the Continental Muster Master shall reside Your Memorialist prays your Honours to direct which of those Counties Quotas are to be mustered and received at Boston, and at the other places respectively — Whereas it is much to be lamented that Desertions has too frequently prevailed in the Course of last Campaign, the want of convenient Quarters for the Troops your Memorial- ist thinks may have been of one Cause (amongst many others) of the Defection — The Barracks being in a ruinous situation for want of repair — and as your Memorialist is desirous to Establish Guards and proper Discipline to pre- vent the Troops from scattering after they are delivered and untill they can be properly conducted to Head Quarters, Your Memorialist entreats your Honours to make provision that the Barracks may be put into proper repair I And as pecuniary Rewards may be necessary for the more speedy apprehending Recruits who have deserted the Duty they owe to their respective Towns and the public at large, prays your Honours to make some additional Clause to the Resolve passed by the Honorable Court offering a Re- ward for apprehending Deserters from the Continentall Anny, as it appears that the Bill refers only to such who have actually joined a Regiment — belonging to the Massa- chusetts Line, who have since left their Corps.

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