26 results filtered with: Recruiting and enlistment
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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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By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... A proclamation. Whereas the governments of the Massachusetts-Bay, New-York, and Connecticut, being apprehensive of the great danger to which his majesty's colonies are still exposed, by means of the encroachments of the French on his majesty's lands on this continent ... Given at Boston, the eighteenth day of February, 1756 ...
Massachusetts. Governor (1741-1757 : Shirley)Date: 1756- Ephemera
The Recruiting officer's speech.
Date: [1817?]- Books
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By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation. Whereas upon consideration of the great importance of the expedition now carrying on against the French fort at Crown Point, and the great necessity of having a force sufficient ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the ninth day of September 1755 ...
Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor (1732-1757 : Phips)Date: 1755- Pictures
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A crowd of figures with the heads of animals carry banners and beat drums as they form a procession; representing the City of London Volunteers. Engraving by William Henry Toms after E. Heemskerk.
Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 31705i- 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]- Pictures
A recruit too short to become a soldier qualifies as a result of an accidental bump on his head. Coloured magic lantern slides.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]Reference: 754962i- 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]- Books
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Remarks on the examination of recruits : intended for the use of young medical officers on entering the army / by H.H. Massy.
Massy, H. H.Date: 1854- Books
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State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, July 2d session, 1780. An act for raising six hundred and thirty able-bodied effective men.
Rhode Island.Date: [1780]- Books
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Sept. 30th, 1779. Whereas the time of inlistment of part of this state's quota of the confederated army of America is near expiring ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1779]- Books
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 3, 1778. Notwithstanding repeated orders ... to make returns of all the male inhabitants ... above the age of sixteen years; and ... all the men inlisted into the Continental Army ... Resolved that ... said committees ... make immediate returns ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1778]- Books
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In the House of Representatives, January 19, 1776. Whereas it is of great importance, not only to the inhabitants of this colony, but also of all the United Colonies, that the lines and fortifications at Cambridge and Roxbury should at all events be maintained ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1776]- Books
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Extract from the resolves of the General Court of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, passed on the 30th day of November, A.D. 1776. A resolve, for amending and explaining a late act of the General Assembly of this state, intitled "An act for providing a reinforcement to the American army."
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1776]- Books
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By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... To [blank]. Sir, As you have receiv'd beating-orders from me to enlist men into his majesty's service for the expedition intended, in the management of that trust, I give you the following directions ... Given under my hand at Boston, the [blank] day of [blank] 1755 ...
Massachusetts. Governor (1741-1757 : Shirley)Date: 1755]- Books
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Reflections on the pernicious custom of recruiting by crimps; and on various other modes now practised in the British army. In a letter to a friend.
Date: [1795]- Books
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Ueber den Einfluss des Militärdienstes auf die Körperentwickelung : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Verhältnisse der Brust und mit Bezug auf die Beurteilung der Militärdienstfähigkeit : eine Studie / von Berthold Karl Fetzer.
Fetzer, Berthold Karl.Date: 1879- Books
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An abstract from resolves containing the encouragement offered by the Continental Congress, and by the state of Massachusetts-Bay, to such as shall inlist into the Continental Army.
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1777]- Books
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, October 20, 1781. Whereas, notwithstanding the resolves of the General Court ... there is still a deficiency of several towns ... in supplying the quota of men apportioned on them ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1781]- Books
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Mémoire sur le choix des hommes : propres au service militaire dans l'armée de terre, et sur leur visite devant les conseils de révision ... / par Moricheau Beaupré.
Moricheau-Beaupré, Pierre Jean, 1778-1857.Date: 1820- Books
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By His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq; ... A proclamation. Whereas His Majesty has been graciously pleased to order a number of troops, under the command of the Honourable Lieutenant-General St. Clair, to proceed from Great-Britain to Louisbourg ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the fifth day of June, 1746. ...
New Hampshire. Governor (1741-1766 : Wentworth)Date: [1746]- Books
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The Rise and continuance of the substitutes, in the Continental Army. Containing, extracts I. From the journals of Congress. II. From the committee of Congress ... III. From the Pennsylvania War-Office. IV. From a declaration of the rights of Pennsylvania. V. From the plan or frame of government. VI. From the Militia Act of Pennsylvania. &c. &c. With the opinion of several eminent lawyers. [Five lines from Cato] Published for the use of all, who are yet capable of noticing, the proper discriminations, which will eternally exist between right and wrong.
Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation. For the encouragement of persons to inlist into his majesty's service in the expedition under the command of His Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Loudoun for the defence of his majesty's colonies ... Give at Boston, the twenty-fifth day of February 1757 ...
Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor (1732-1757 : Phips)Date: [1757]