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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 21: military History. (search)
both to town and country, and now disenabled as well by infirmities of body as age, is by this court released from all ordinary trainings. And he is to make such annual allowance to the military company as himself shall see meet. Middlesex Court Record. Ordinarily, five shillings per annum was required to be paid in consideration of such exemption, as in the case of Gilbert Crackbone, April 6, 1658, and Robert Parker and William Mann, October, 1658, Ibid. all Cambridge men. So also, June, 1659, William Kerley, Ibid. Kerley resided in Lancaster. aged about 76 years, is released from all ordinary trainings, paying 5s. per annum to the use of the military company in the town where he dwelleth. In the Middlesex Court Files of 1659 is preserved a document without date, entitled, Reasons, showing why old men of sixty years are not to train:— First. From the word of God, though not in express terms, yet by consequence, may be gathered, that if the Levites were to be dismissed