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For the encouragement of those that shall inlist in the Continental Army --the Congress in their resolves of September 16th, 18th, 19th, October 8th, and November 12th, 1776, engage, that twenty dollars be given as a bounty ... And for their further encouragement, the stat of Massachusetts-Bay, has, by a resolve of November 25 last engaged ...
Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives.Date: 1776]- Books
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At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1780. Whereas a requisition has been made on this state by the honorable committee of Congress and by His Excellency General Washington ... Resolved ... that 2520 able-bodied effective men, of the militia of this state ... be formed into five regiments ...
Connecticut. General Assembly.Date: 1780]- Books
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, August 8, 1777. Whereas by the loss of the important fortress of Ticonderoga, a way is open to the ravages of our cruel and inveterate enemies ... Resolve, that one sixth part of the able-bodied men in the training band and alarm list, now at home ... march ... to reinforce the American army ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1777]- Books
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, January 25, 1777. The perseverance of Britain in her attempts to subjugate the free states of America ... demands a vigorous perseverance in the inhabitants of these states ... For this end the supreme council of the continent ... have called for eighty-eight battalions ... and for fifteen of them from the Massachusetts-Bay ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1777]- Books
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Senate, February 26, 1781. Whereas it is of the utmost importance that the quota of men required by a resolve of the 2d of December last, be speedily compleated ... therefore, resolved, that the assessors of every deficient town ... where the mode of classing has not been adopted, be, and they hereby are authorized and directed immediately upon the receipt hereof, to class their inhabitants ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1781]