To the Honourable the General Assembly of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay

The Petition of Thomas Goldthwait Esq & others late of the Garrison of Fort Pownall

Humbly shews

That your Petitioners served in the said Garrison from the first day of June 1774 for the time they inlisted for or untill the said Garrison was dismissed agreable to the establishment made for the said Garrison by the general assembly of the Province at Salem the last year and your petitioners having received no pay for their said service excepting only what has been advanced them by the officers of said garrison and are in great want thereof. ー Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your honours to take their case into consideration and order them their pay.

And your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray. &c.