Joseph Matthews of Capt. Perkin’s Company of Artillery, tried by the same General Court Martial, for “selling his Gun, which the Select Men of his Town had given him, and drawing pay for a Blanket, furnish’d by said Select-men.” The Court sentence the prisoner to receive Ten Lashes upon his bare back, and order Twelve Shillings to be stopped from his pay, to repay Capt. Perkins for the blanket.
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