they with the greatest possible alacrity accept the offer made them & they will immediately exert their utmost endeavours to equip themselves in a manner agreeable to yr. Excellency's intentions.

With respect to that part of your Excellency's message which relates to their support they humbly beg leave to observe, That altho' many of the members of this Company possess'd considerable Property & some of them ample Fortunes before the Rebellion in America, they are now depriv'd of any Benefit therefrom.

They engag'd in the service of their Sovereign, from principles as truly disinterested as their Circumstances would admit.

When this company were originally form'd under the patronage of his Excellency Govr. WENTWORTH the members sanguinely anticipated a very speedy conclusion of the war

the continuance of it beyond their Expectations has render'd it difficult for some of them to subsist.

They now wish only for such support as the nature of the Service in which they may be engag'd will require; & (with your Excellency's permission) they will chearfully submit this matter to the determination of the Inspector General, whose attention to the Company in this & other Instances merits their grateful Acknowledgements-

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National Archives of Canada, RG 8, "C" Series, Volume 1893.

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