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                 WAR:  Captain Nicholas Wetterhold                                                                              
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NICHOLAS WETTERHOLD --
               CAPTAIN

 Stationed with a company of militiamen at Nicholas Dupui's fort, Captain Nicholas Wetterhold was tasked with the duty of channeling payments to the men under his command and to those suppliers that provided his men's provisions.

 His payments to Nicholas Dupui are tallied below:

 

 
 

1756, April 29 - To Captain John Nicholaus Wetterholt, for his Company's pay, £332 3s. 0d.


1756, May 28 - To Captain John Nicholaus Wetterholt, for pay for himself and company and allowance for thirty-six guns furnished by his men, £166 5s. 6d.


1756, June 21 - Samuel Depuy, in full, for his account for purchasing provisions for a detachment of Captain Wetterholt's Company, £33 1s. 8d.

 

1756, Dec'r 15 - Samuel Depuy's order for victualling Captain Wetterholt's Company, &c., £108 1s. 8d.

  


Captain Wetterhold managed to live for another seven years after his tour of duty at Dupui's fort.  His death during Pontiac's Rebellion is recorded in this letter sent to Timothy Horsfield:

  Oct. the 8th, 1763:

   MR. HORSFIELD, Sir, Pray send me help for all my men are killed
But one and Captn. Wetterholt is most Dead, he is shot through the
Body, for god sake send me help
     These from me to serve my country and king, so long as I live,
     Send me help or I am a dead man
     this from Lt. Dodge
     Sgt. Meguire is shot through the body --
     Pray send up the Doctor for god sake.		  





 
   

 
       
       
     
     
 
     
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