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1758 JOHN GARDNER Request for Wages for Troops During the French and Indian War

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1758 JOHN GARDNER Request for Wages for Troops During the French and Indian War
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1758 French and Indian War Wage Request for R.I. Troops
JOHN GARDNER (1697-1764). Deputy Governor of Rhode Island and Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court.
June 20, 1758-Dated French and Indian War Period, Manuscript Document Signed, “J. Gardner” on a request for payment of “100 pounds Lawful Money it being to enable us to pay Wages Billetting, &c. to the troops and charge the same to the Colony,” Newport, Rhode Island, Choice Extremely Fine. This beautifully penned Document is on fine quality laid watermarked period paper measuring 5” x 7.” Gardner signs along with Peter Bours as Members of the “Committee of War”, referring to the French and Indian War that had begun four years earlier.
John Gardner (September 17, 1697- January 1764) served for more than eight years as the deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and was also a Chief Justice of the Colony's Superior Court.

John Bours (1734–1815) was a merchant at the Sign of the Golden Eagle, Thames Street, where he sold English, Continental, and West Indian imports, including fabrics, metals, jewelry, sugar, rice, coffee, tea, wine, rum, raisins, lemons, and spices. For many years, he was treasurer of the Redwood Library in Newport, and served on its board of directors. He also was active in the Trinity Church as vestryman and Church warden; in 1782 Bours acted as lay reader in the absence of a minister, and two years later, he declined a request that he "enter into holy orders and become their minister."