Skill training /

Rules and regulations respecting the recruiting service.
Published: (1799)

General orders. Head-quarters, Boston, June 6, 1794 : By the act of Congress, of the 9th May last, a detachment of 80,000 men, including officers, is directed to be made ... the proportion to this state ... as estimated in the said act, being 11,885 men ... The several divisions and brigades of the militia of this commonwealth, will furnish the detachment in the following proportion, viz. ...

Mr. Harper's motion, 3d July, 1798.
by: Harper, Robert Goodloe, 1765-1825
Published: (1798)

Rules and regulations respecting the recruiting service.
Published: (1798)

Compulsory military training /
by: Johnsen, Julia Emily
Published: (1941)

At a meeting of the governor and Council of Safety, holden at Hartford, on the 19th day of June A.D. 1781 : Whereas ... His Excellency the governor hath received from His Excellency General Washington, a very pressing and earnest requistion for eight hundred men ... Therefore resolved, by the governor and Council of Safety, that there be forthwith raised in this state, eight hundred able bodied effective men ...

At a meeting of the governor and Council of Safety, holden at Hartford, 30th June, A.D. 1780 : Whereas the General Assembly in May last resolved, that fifteen hundred men should be raised to join the Connecticut battalions in the Continental Army ... Therefore resolved, that only fifteen hundred and twenty able-bodied effective men, rank and file, be raised ...

Today's Army : skill training, life experience /
Published: (1990)

In Council, December 1, 1775 : Whereas it is of the utmost importance to the inhabitants of this colony, as well as the American Army, that the fortifications at Cambridge and Roxbury be effectually defended: and His Excellency General Washington has applied for a temporary reinforcement from New-Hampshire and this colony ...

I the subscriber do hereby solemnly engage and enlist myself, as a soldier, in the battalion of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ... agreeable to an act of the General Assembly of the said state, passed at November session, 1780 ...
Published: (1780)

In the House of Representatives, February 10th, 1776 : Whereas the votes and proceedings of the Honorable Continental Congress respecting the regiment now raising in this colony to join the Continental Army in Canada, makes it necessary that some alterations should be made in the resolves of this Court ...

An act for raising volunteers to join the Grand Army.

Boston, December 15, 1780 : At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, on the 13th instant, --- it was voted, that a committee of three persons for each ward, be chosen to class the inhabitants that are rated ... into one hundred and eighty-one classes; [each] class to furnish a man for the Continental Army ...
Published: (1780)

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, March session, 1781 : Whereas by an act of this assembly, passed at November session, apportioning three hundred and eight men ... to be raised ... resolved, that the committees of the delinquent towns ... make return of the persons by them detached ...

Notification : In obedience to the order of the town, the committee for inlisting men, hereby inform you, that they are to return to the town at adjournment of the meeting ... the names of all persons who may then be delinquent: in the meantime the committee will sit to receive monies ...
Published: (1781)

Instructions to the officers appointed to recruit in New-York, for the service of the United States of America.

We the subscribers do hereby solemnly engage and inlist ourselves, as soldiers, in the battalion ordered to be raised by the General Assembly of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations ... on the third Monday in July, 1780 ...
Published: (1780)

At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, A.D. 1781. ... : Resolved by this assembly, that a list of the deficiencies in the quota of recruits, to fill up the Connecticut line, in the Continental Army, be forthwith printed ... and that His Excellency the governor ... give all necessary orders ... for raising and compleating the troops of this state.

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, November session, 1780 : An act for filling up and compleating this state's quota of the Continental Army.

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, October 9, 1779 : Whereas it is represented to this Court by a letter from the president of Congress, that authentic intelligence has been received of the arrival of Count D'Estaing with a powerful fleet to co-operate with the United States ...

In Congress, March 15, 1779 : Resolved, that all officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers ... commissioned and inlisted since the 16th of September, 1776 ... be considered as parts of the quotas of the several states to which they did or shall respectively belong when so commissioned or inlisted.

[Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, March 8, 1782 : Resolved, that eighty-five men ... be immediately raised within the town of Boston, as said town's proportion for compleating and recruiting the Massachusetts line of the Continental Army.].

State of New-York. Head-quarters, Poughkeepsie, November [blank] 1780. General orders : His Excellency the governor having been informed that the deficiency in the quota of this state, of troops, to serve in the Army of the United States, during the war, is 548 ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston, March 15, 1782 : Whereas the General Court of this commonwealth on the eighth day of March instant did resolve, "That eighty-five men ... be immediately raised within the town of Boston, as said town's proportion for compleating and recruiting the Massachusetts line of the Continental Army."--and whereas the General Court did further resolve ... to class the inhabitants of said town ... into eighty-five classes ... each person contained in such class shall pay towards procuring the man for said class ... In compliance with said resolves, the assessors ... have fixed upon the under-written persons to compose one class, viz. To Mr. [blank] head of class, no. [blank] in ward no. [blank].
Published: (1782)

State of New-York, an act for completing the five Continental battalions, raised under the direction of this state.

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 20, 1778 : Resolve for filling up and compleating the fifteen battalions of Continental troops, directed to be raised in the state of Massachusetts-Bay.

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 ...

An act for the more speedily completing the quota of troops to be raised in this Commonwealth for the Continental Army, and for other purposes.

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. ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, November 27, 1780 : Resolved, that the following persons be appointed in each county to muster the men that shall inlist into the Continental Army ...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, June 23, 1781 : Whereas a number of soldiers, inlisted to serve in the Continental Army ... were rejected by the continental muster master as unfit ... Resolved, that the soldiers ... be held and obliged to do such duty as soldiers, as they are respectively able to perform ...

An act for speedily recruiting the quota of this state for the Continental Army.
Published: (1780)

At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, by adjournment, on the 10th day of January, Anno Dommini [as printed] 1782 : Resolved ... that the numbers hereafter annexed to the several towns, shall be the number or quota of men such town shall raise, to fill the regiment of state troops raised for the defence of the western frontiers. ...

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 ...

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, February session, 1782 : Whereas great frauds have been committed, and the recruiting service greatly injured ...

By the governor and Council of Safety, of the state of Connecticut, the 12th day of April, A.D. 1777. A resolve and proclamation : Whereas notwithstanding the encouragement given by the Honourable Continental Congress ... Given under my hand, by and with the advice and resolve of said Council of Safety, this 12th day of April, A.D. 1777.
Published: (1777)