[Simon Murfe, sailor record, 1710 Connecticut]
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The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut
Vol. 5, p. 192
Nov. 1710
At a meeting of the Council in New London, November 18th, 1710.
Present, The Governours Honour.
Daniel Wetherell, Esqr.
Richard Christophers, Esqr, Assistant.
Mr. Jonathan Prentts, Mr. John Plumbe, Justices.  Lieut. John Richards, Freeman.
Ordered, that Richard Christophers, Esqr, pay out of the Colonys money in his hands,
unto Simon Murfe, twelve shillings in part of his wages as a sailor on board the Mary
Gally, one of the transports of this Colony in the late expedition.
[follows with more men being paid for "said expedition"]
[from the Nov. 11th, 1710 court-p. 191, previous page]
Ordered, that Richard Christophers, Esqr, pay out of the Colonys money in his hands 
twenty shillings unto John Lane of Midletown, a soldier in the expedition against
Port Royall, for his extraordinary care and service in tending several sick soldiers
on board Capt. Moses Mansfield in the briganteen Mary, in their return from said
expedition.