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In the Council of Safety, Savannah, 27th July, 1775 : Resolved, that where this board shall adjudge that any regiment has an extraordinary number of men, and the district too extensive, such regiment shall be subdivided ..
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Georgia. Council of Safety
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At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America : holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, A.D. 1776 : An act for raising and equipping a body of minute men, to be held in readiness, for the better defence of this colony, and for repealing an act of the same title made and passed by this Assembly, in December 1775
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Connecticut
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By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq ; governor of the state of Connecticut, in America. A proclamation : Whereas the General Assembly ... did resolve, that whereas sundry of the inhabitants of this state ... have absconded ... Given under my hand at the Council chamber in Hartford, the 9th day of June, A.D. 1777
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Connecticut. Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull)
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In the House of Representatives, November 24, 1776 : Whereas the resolve of the Court of the nineteenth of October last, so far as relates to the additional encouragement to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers, has been found to be attended with inconveniences, and the mode of the said encouragement has been disapproved by Congress ..
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Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives
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At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut : holden at Hartford, by special order of His Excellency the governor, on the 13th day, of August A.D. 1777 : Resolved by this Assembly, that two battalions ... of the militia of this state be ordered to march ... and assist the Continental Army in the Northern department
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Connecticut. General Assembly
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State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations : At a meeting of the committee appointed to act during the recess of the General-Assembly, held at the Court House in Newport, on the twelfth day of September, A.D. 1776. Resolved that, to raise the battalion of militia now ordered ..
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Rhode Island. General Assembly
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Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the Committee of Observation for the county of Lancaster : At a meeting of the said committee, held at the Court-House, in the borough of Lancaster, on the 16th and 17th days of June, 1775. James Burd Esq ; in the chair : On motion of several members of this committee, which being fully considered and supported
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Lancaster County (Pa.). Committee of Observation
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Boston, Sunday, January 12, 1777 : the letters, whereof the following are extracts, being wrote by several field officers in the American army, arrived in town last evening, and are made public for the perusal of the several gentlemen who subscribed to defray the expences of obtaining intelligence from the army
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In General Assembly, March second session, 1777 : an act for numbering all persons able to bear arms within this state. Be it enacted by this General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, that the following persons be appointed committee-men for the towns ... for the purposes herein after mentioned ..
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Rhode Island
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Burlington Nov. [blank] 1776 : Sir, General Howe, after having been presented with the fairest opportunity to come to a general engagement with the brave troops of the United States, at the White-Plains, thought proper to decline a battle, and suddenly retreated towards New-York. ..
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New Jersey. Governor (1776-1790 : Livingston)
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, August 15, 1777 : Whereas it appears ... that the proportion of the Continental Army, directed to be raised in this state, is far short of being compleat ... Resolved, that ... several companies in each delinquent town ... be called together ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, captain-general, and commander in chief of the state of Connecticut, in America. A proclamation : Whereas the Honorable Continental Congress have resolved that eight battalions of troops be raised ... each non-commissioned officer and soldier, inhabitants of this state, who shall inlist himself ... shall be entitled to have and receive, not only the bounty, wages and allowances, offered by Congress ... but also all such further encouragements as are offered and granted by the General Assembly of this state ... Given under my hand in New-Haven, the sixth day of November, anno Domini, 1776
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Connecticut. Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull)
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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 ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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The committee of both Houses on the letter this morning received by this Court from His Excellency General Washington, relative to supplying the army with fire-arms, beg leave to report, by way of resolve, viz. ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, January 26th, 1777 : Ordered, that the following address be printed ... To the people of Massachusetts-Bay. Friends and countrymen! When a people within reach of the highest temporal happiness ... are in danger of having it wrested from them ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In Council, July 7, 1777 : Resolved, that all such men as may inlist as non-commissioned officers and private soldiers into the Continental regiment, to be commanded by Col. Henly, shall be considered as part of the proportion of each town for which they shall be so inlisted ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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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
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Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives
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Important news. Boston, (twelve o'clock) Friday, August 22 : the following letter from the Hon. Major-General Lincoln, to the honorable Coucil, is just received by express
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In Council, January 1, 1777 : whereas a considerable number of men belonging to this state have inlisted into the service of the United States ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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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 ..
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Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives
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At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the colony of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May 1776 : whereas the General Assembly of this colony, have at this session, enacted, that one regiment or battalion of troops, shall be forthwith raised by voluntary inlistment ... For the encouragement of such ablebodied, effective men ... it is resolved ..
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Connecticut. General Assembly
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 30th, 1777 : Whereas this court have undoubted intelligence that our enemies are determined ... to enslave the inhabitants of America ... Resolved, that in such towns ... as have not already ... inlisted a number of able-bodied men ... shall on the said 15th day of May, call their several companies together, and endeavour to compleat the same ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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Williamsburg, Saturday, April 29, 1775. : Late last night an express arrived from Philadelphia, with the following melancholy advices from the province of Connecticut, forwarded to the Committee of Correspondence in this city. The blow (so much dreaded by our noble friend Lord Chatham) is now struck, a great deal of blood spilt, and much more it is likely, than the present advices communicate. ..
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State of Connecticut. By the governor : Whereas his most Christian Majesty, (the renowned and illustrious King of France) has first among all the powers of Europe, acknowleged and recognized the independence of the United States of America ... and has entered into, and ratified a treaty of alliance ..
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Connecticut. Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull)
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In the House of Representatives, June 25th, 1776 : As the unrelenting spirit which possesses the King and Parliament of Britain, has pushed them on to leave no measure unessayed, to accomplish our destruction ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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