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my servants, and live stock from the public Herds and Flocks for my Family, and that receipts would be required from me for every Article issued on my Account, that a charge might be made for the same at the Current market prices, that when I was to leave the Colony an account would be made up and transmitted to His Majesty's Ministers, that they might determine whether such Stock provisions and Stores were or were not to be paid for by me; and further that he must reduce my establishment of Houses to five. Soon after another message was delivered to me that in case I chose a tomb Stone to be erected over the remains of the late Captain Putland (my son in law) it would be done, and the expense transmitted home to know if I was to be charged with it. I designed and executed a part of, a Musoleum [Mausoleum], which I intended for the reception of the remains of Gunners who might die in this Colony; it was near the Church, and in the finished part of the Vault Captain Putland's remains had been deposited.
30th
78th - On the 30th January the Committee came again, and took away another assortment of papers, and locking up my Office the Centinels [Sentinels] were taken away and my Friends were allowed to see me. Rebellious
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