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attendance even for such as he hath received, his time being preciouse, and his occasions many.
14thly. Your petitioner doeth further humbly mind your honoures, that at the making of his contract, the intention of the army seemed to bee for goeing into possession gradually, taking two thirds, according to an order 22th of May, and other former resolutions, the which they omitting to doe hath encreased your petitioners trouble and charge above one third part, for as much as now your petitioner hath wholly wanted the asistance of the members of the army respectively concerned in each land, and hath now lyeing uppon himselfe the burden of all clamoures and suspitions concerning mistakes and errors in distinguishing profitable from unprofitable, and ascertaining bounds, &c., which otherwise had been gradually performed and setled all under one, to the mutuall content and satisfaction of the severall persons concerned.
Your petitioner humbly desires your honoures, as a motive to releive him in the aforementioned greivances and extraordinary services, to consider the many dangers whereunto he hath exsposed himselfe by reason of this undertaking, as, namely, to the sad consequences of a change of government and of chief governoures, change of the whole designe, want of money in the State, bad money, mistakes in his accompts, having to deale with soe many persons about soe many severall things, law suites uppon the misunderstanding of any of the many contracts and agreements which he hath been forced to make under hand and scale, new commotions, taking of his instruments by toryes, unfittness of the weather, mislaying and spoyling of plotts and papers, sickness of his servants in salary, the negligence of some and the unfaithfullness of the others, extraordinary contingent charges, the hazard of his friends and security, the utter loss of his creditt in case of miscarriage, causelesse clamoures at all hands, the envy and ill will of the late surveyors, the averseness of guards and bounders, continuall feares and vexations; the most part of all which, with many others, your petitioner hath actually endured, even from the beginning hitherto; all which your petitioner hath and must undergoe for a gaine not greater then merchants usually makes uppon one single bargaine without trouble: besides may it please your honoures to remember how moderate a reward your petitioner propounded for doeing the whole on the States accompt.
2dly. And as another motive, your petitioner desires your honours to consider at how low a rate this worke is done out of the States purse, vizt, not ex-
