Extract from the Gazette, 1740
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, September 18, 1740.

The seven Companies raised in this Province, are all embark’d; and ’tis said the Transports will fall down in a few Days. The Companies are all full, and the Men chearful and in good Heart. They were review’d by his Honour the Governor before they went on board, and perform’d their Exercise to Admiration.

The Company rais’d in the Lower Counties will embark at New-Castle.

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