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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]- 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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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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In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, February 14, 1775. Whereas it appears necessary for the defence of the lives, liberties, and properties, of the inhabitants of this province, that this Congress ... should be made fully acquainted with the number and military equipments o the militia, and Minute Men ... Resolved, that ... the commanding officers of each regiment ... take an exact state of their numbers, and equipment ...
Massachusetts. Provincial Congress.Date: 1775]- 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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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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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 20, 1778. Whereas Congress by their resolve of February 18th, 1778, has called upon this state for thirteen hundred of the Militia thereof ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1778]- 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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In the House of Representatives, November 1, 1776. Ordered, that the following address from the General Court of this state, to the officers and private soldiers who are gone from thence and are serving in the American army, be printed in two thousand hand-bills ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1776]- Books
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In Congress, March 2, 1778. Whereas it is essential to the operations of the Army, during the next campaign, that the most vigorous measures should forthwith be adopted for forming a body of horse ...
United States. Continental Congress.Date: 1778]- Books
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 23, 1780. Whereas the troops of the southern states will now be needed for the defence of that quarter, and by reason of the late advantages obtained by the enemy, we are compelled to call for a further supply of men, to fill up our battalions ... as well as a detachment of militia ...
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