Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913 : family recipes contributed by the Woman's Aid Society of Paxton Church . v^^e*uC^4^T]^9^Si^ie^. M-^. IX COPY OF PARSON ELDERSCOMMISSION AS COLONEL For a long time this commission granted by the Co-lonial Government to Parson Elder was supposed to belost. It was discovered in the family of Mr. S. BethelBoude, was carefully patched by his mother—the paperhaving worn with age—and now, framed between twopieces of glass, is one of the most cherished possessionsof Mr. Boude, who kindly has given us permission tocopy it for the first time since it w
Historic Paxton, her days and her ways, 1722-1913 : family recipes contributed by the Woman's Aid Society of Paxton Church . v^^e*uC^4^T]^9^Si^ie^. M-^. IX COPY OF PARSON ELDERSCOMMISSION AS COLONEL For a long time this commission granted by the Co-lonial Government to Parson Elder was supposed to belost. It was discovered in the family of Mr. S. BethelBoude, was carefully patched by his mother—the paperhaving worn with age—and now, framed between twopieces of glass, is one of the most cherished possessionsof Mr. Boude, who kindly has given us permission tocopy it for the first time since it was issued a hundredand forty years ago. It is written in a beautiful copper-plate hand on both sides of a sheet of parchment paper,nine by fourteen and a half inches. Philadelphia, July 11th, 1763. Sir: It having been agreed between me & the As-sembly, that seven hundred men should be forth-with used for the defense of the Frontiers,against the Incursions of the Indians, whichfrom what has already happened to the West-ward, there is great reason to apprehend, will, bydegrees, extend themselves along the wholeFr
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