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n Hagar, each procured a man to serve in the army three years or during the war, and were allowed £ 30 each. Fifteen men did service at the Boston lines and at Dorchester Heights in the winter of 1776, and three went to Rhode Island. The latter received £ 6 each. Five, who were drafted to go to Bennington, went in person or procured substitutes. Eight went in November, 1777, to guard the troops of the Convention at Watertown, and remained until the following April. Twenty others went in January, and six for 15 days in July. The Committee also give a long list of persons who gave from £ 2 to £ 30 each to procure men for the Continental Army. Fourteen men went to the Boston and Roxbury lines in the spring of 1778, and fourteen others advanced money to procure men to go to Rhode Island in the summer following. Five went to escort prisoners to Rutland. Fifteen, who went to the lines in August of the same year, were allowed £ 2 each. The total sum of the allowances reported