Wee, your Supplicants expecting a general action would ensue, from the pressing invitations given, & zealous to have a hand in rescuing our distressed Country from their invitered Enemy, Confiding at the same time in the clemency of your letter, generously stept forth well equipt with Arms for the field; and in our way to the army, as already mentioned, waited upon your Excellency and the Honourable Council, who approving of our zeal, ordered us to Gen'l Potter, with whome wee continued the full time allowed the Militia, undergoing much fatigue by day & Night & exposed to great danger, well (as wee understood) to the approbation of the General, but notwithstanding this our approven service, a Number of us hath been fined forty pounds, and the remainder threatened with a like fate, when several of equal Circumstances who remained at home hath escaped with a fine of five or six pounds--and that assistance in a future day (if demanded) may meet with the desired success, and wee your petitioners, generously rewarded for our past service, do humbly pray a redress of these our grievances; and wee as in duty bound shall ever pray. [Replete with spelling errors]