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�follows, viz.

      Major-general Gideon Foster of the 2 Division, president

Brigadier general John Chandler 1. Brigade 8. Div Lieutenant colonel Samuel Porter 1. Brigade 4. Div. " David Payson 1. Brigade 8. Div. " John Lord 1. Brigade 6. Div. Brigade-major Samuel Howard 2. Brigade 8. Div. Marshal Captain Charles Davis of the legion, 1. Div. Recorder

   Ana having adjourned from time to time until the 17. instant, the Court then met, & after having heard all the proceedings read,  taken them into full & mature consideration do report as their opinion, that there does not exist cause to order a Court martial for the trial of brigadier-general John Winslow of the legionary brigade in the first Division of the militia of this Commonwealth.     (signed) Gideon Foster, president.")

(signed) "Charles Davis, recorder"

   The Commander in chief having read the whole evidence & the opinion of the Court thereon, & having duly considered of the whole matter, approves the decision of the Court; & orders that the Court of inquiry be dissolved. By order of the Commander in chief,

Wm. Donnison, Adjt. General

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Headquarters. Nov. 20. 1803. General Orders.

  The Com. in ch. having taken into consideration [illegible] from MGen. Sewall of the 8. Div. for two companies of infantry to be formed in a plantation called Great pond settlement in the county of Lincoln & having taken the advice of Council thereon, Orders that the inhabitants of said plantation liable to enrolment be formed into two companies to be divided by a line passing through the center of the same in the following manner, viz. beginning at the northwest corner of John Johnson's land to the north east corner thereof, thence continuing in an easterly direction two rods south of Robert Foy's dwellinghouse, continuing thence in a similar direction two rods north of Daniel Cooper's dwellinghouse from thence in such a direction as will pass two rods north of George Light's dwellinghouse, and thence in the same direction to the plantation line adjoining Davistown; & that the south company
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