Subject: Accounts 11 May 1758
Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:05:45 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 03:08:20 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
Organization: gamecock@yours.com
To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Thursday the 11th of May 1758.

"... Ordered that an Address be prepared to be presented to the Governor humbly
To desire that his Excellency will Please to Order the several Persons to be
paid the Money due to them for Contingent Services & for the Carolina Regiment.

And Accordingly the following one was drawn, Vizt.

May it please your Excellency,

Among the Accounts laid before this House (pursuant to your Excellencys Order)
are severall for Expresses to & from the Indian Nations which being usually
defrayd out of the Article provided for Contingent Services; we humbly desire
that your Excellency will be pleas'd to order the following Persons to be paid
the following Sums out of the Article inserted for that Service in the Schedule
to the Present Tax-Bill when the said Bill shall be passed by the Legislature,
Viz.

Frederick Closeman, Twenty five pounds; Henry Gallman, Ten Pounds; John McQueen
& Company, One hundred & twelve Pounds (on two Orders, one of Lachlan McIntosh
for one hundred Pounds & the other of Cornelius Cockley for twelve Pounds);
Stephen Tarraway, fifteen Pounds; & Benjamin Dart (on John Hattons Order),
twenty pounds.

There are other Accounts for the Use of the Carolina Regiment which we desire
that Your Excellency will please to Order to be paid out of the money provided
for that Regiment, viz., to Daniel Crawford Esqr., Sixty Pounds fifteen
Shillings; John Dargen, Ten Pounds; Michael Cockran, Four pounds one Shilling; &
John Hudson, Four Pounds & five Shillings...."

Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

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