Jones Family - James Jones Pension - page 51

We the subscribers being well convinced of the absolute necesity of raising a sufficient body of provincial forces for the defence of the Constitution and the preservation of our Just Rights and liberties when the same are in the most imment danger of being invaded have therefore voluntarily militia unto the Provincial Service under Capt. John Kisher B[?] Evans first Lieut. & Joseph Fitch 2o. [?] & Guy Young Ensign, and do hereby promise and agree that we will severally do execute and perform all and every such Instructions directions orders and military discipline and duties as our said officers or either of them or the commanding officer for thetime being on this new establishment shall from time to time give or send to us during the time that our service is required in the unhappy contest between Great Britian and the Colonies and we do [?] promise and engage not to go from or quit the said service untill we shall be discharged or dismissed from the same by the Continental Congress or the Provincial Congress of this colony or by the General Committee of the City & County of Albany under the penalty of forfeiting our wages and being deemed in the eye of the publick as enemies to our Country and we the said officers do severally promise and [agage] under the most solemn ties of honor and love to our Country that we shall and will from time to time and at all times during the said Contest between Great Britian and the said United Colonies to perform and execute in our several and respective Stations all and every the Instructions directions orders Millitary disipline and duties as the

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James Jones Military Pension Record, page 13. Fold3.com, image 24197533, 6 July 2019.

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