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1775-1783
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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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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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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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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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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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