To the Honorable the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut to be holden at Hartford on the Second Thursday of May A.D. 1758. These may Certify you Honours that the Highland Soldiers Ordered to be Quartered in the Town of Stamford arrived at said Town on Novr. 30 A.D. 1757 and were Quartered there until March 30th A.D. 1758 the number of soldiers officers included was two Hundred and fifty. there were also belonging to them & in Company with them seventeen women and nine children were at the cost of sd. [said] Town Provided with Houseroom, bedding, firewood, candles, cyder, the necessary utensils for Cooking & Eating their victuals, &c…we have not yet been able to compute the Cost the Town were at on their account so as to lay it upon your Honours. Their officers Insisted on being kept within a small compass which exposed us to much more Cost & otherwise than would have been necessary. So that we conclude the Expense of said Town on their account is full equal to that of any other Town in Proportion to the number there Quartered. we were also at the Cost of £36.10.6-3/4 Lawful money for a guard house & Hospital for them & In behalf of said Town we do Humbly Request your Honours to order such an allowance to said Town for their Expense on account of said Soldiers &c as your Honours shall in your wisdom think proper & as in Duty bound ever pray &c.
Dated at Stamford April 28th A.D. 1758
Comtee for said Town to take care of said Highlanders
[illegible] Hait
Abram. Davenport
Jno. Holly
250 soldiers including officers 17 weeks @ 1/6 p… 318.15.0
6 officers @ 4/ p week 17 weeks in addition… 20.8.0
the Cost of Hospital & Guard House… 36.10.6-3/4
[Total expenses] - £375.13.6-3/4
This accot. allowed by ye Comitee
Pr. [per] order Thomas Weller
Source:
Judd, Sylvester. Connecticut archives: selected papers of colonial wars. FHL, Microfilm 8199492, vol. 7, p. 278.
© Jeffrey Campbell, Fraser's 78th Regiment of Foot, 2021.
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