At a session of the General Court of the Massachusets [sic] Colony, in Boston, 28th of May, 1690. Whereas the honourable Sir William Phipps, Knight, is appointed to take the chief command, and Major John Walley to be second unto him in command of all the forces that shall be provided for their Majesties service, in an expedition of Gods assistance intended for Canada, against the common enemy, French and Indians. Massachusetts. General Court. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09498 of text W7937 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing M982). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09498 Wing M982 ESTC W7937 69648757 ocm 69648757 184990 2248534321

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B09498) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184990) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2883:13) At a session of the General Court of the Massachusets [sic] Colony, in Boston, 28th of May, 1690. Whereas the honourable Sir William Phipps, Knight, is appointed to take the chief command, and Major John Walley to be second unto him in command of all the forces that shall be provided for their Majesties service, in an expedition of Gods assistance intended for Canada, against the common enemy, French and Indians. Massachusetts. General Court. 1 sheet ([2] p.). s.n., [Boston : 1690] Signed: "By order of the court, Isaac Addington, Secr'." Place and date of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Massachusetts Historical Society Library. eng Phips, William, -- Sir, 1651-1695. Massachusetts. -- Militia -- Early works to 1800. United States -- History -- King William's War, 1689-1697 -- Sources. Port Royal (N.S.) Expedition, 1690. Broadsides -- Massachusetts -- 17th century. eebo At a session of the General Court of the Massachusets colony, in Boston, 28th of May, 1690. Whereas the Honourable Sir William Phipps, Knight, is appo Massachusetts 1689 2 466 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2013-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-12 Sampled and proofread 2013-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AT A SESSION OF THE General Court Of the Massachusets Colony , in Boston , 28th of May , 1690.

WHereas the Honourable Sir William Phipps , Knight , is appointed to take the Chief Command , and Major John Walley to be Second unto him in Command of all the Forces that shall be provided for their Majesties Service , in an Expedition by Gods assistance intended for Canada , against the Common Enemy , French and Indians .

All Gentlemen Souldiers and Sea-men , that shall List themselves for the said Service , are desired to enter their Names with such persons herein after Named , appointed for Muster-Masters in the several Regiments where such Souldiers and Seamen dwell or have their Abode , and to be in readiness to Randesvouz at such time and place as shall be assigned by the said Muster-Masters respectively , the Souldiers to appear compleatly Armed .

And for Encouragement to persons willingly to offer themselves to said Service ,

It is Ordered ,

1. That the Pay of all Land Officers , and private Sentinels , shall be in all Respects equal to what hath been already allowed to those improved against the Indian Enemy .

2. That the Pay of all Sea Officers and Seamen shall be after the same Rate proportionably to what shall be paid unto them lately improved in the Port Royal Expedition .

3. Besides the stated pay , one just half part of all plunder taken from the Enemy shall be shared among the Officers , Soldiers and Seamen . Stores of War Excepted .

4 If it so happen ( which God forbid ) that any of ours fall in the Attempt , then what would rightfully have belonged to such person or persons if they had lived , shall be made good to their Widows and Children , and if none such be , then to those who have the next Legal Right .

5 If any person be so wounded , as to loose a Limb , or the use thereof , so as thereby to be disinabled for bodily labour , further consideration shall be had to such , out of the part of plunder accruing to the Publick .

Muster-Masters for the several Regiments , viz. For Major Saltonstal's Henry Short Newbury , For Major Appleton's Nathaniel Rust Ipswich , For Major Gidney's Benjamin Geerish Salem , For Major Hinksman's Henry Woodiss Concord , For Major Phillips's Samuel Phipps Charlstown , For Major Phillips's Samuel Champney Cambridg , For Major Hutchinson's William Coleman Boston , For Major Quinsey's Joseph Dire Weymouth , For Major Quinsey's Samuel Ruggles junier , Roxsbury .

By Order of the Court , Isaac Addington Secr '