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 ...
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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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We the subscribers do hereby severally inlist ourselves into the service of the United Colonies of America, to serve until the first day of April next, if the service shall require it ...
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We the subscribers do hereby severally inlist ourselves into the service of the United Colonies of America, to serve from the date hereof until the fifteenth day of January next, if the service requires it ...
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. ...
Committee of Safety, New-York, January 27, 1776 : Instructions of the colonels, and other officers for inlistment of four new battalions in the Continental service, for the defence of the colony.
[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.].
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.
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, July 2d session, 1780 : Whereas notwithstanding the provision made in an act passed by this Assembly, at the last session, for bringing six hundred and ten men into the field, to recruit the continental battalions raised by this state, there appears, by the return of the adjutant-general, dated the twenty-first of this inst. July, to be the following deficiencies in the quotas of men heretofore assigned to the towns hereafter named, to wit.
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 ...
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In the House of Representatives, Dec. 2, 1775 : resolved, that Mr. Guild, for the county of Suffolk; Messr's Hopkins, Phillips and Mighill, and Major Cross, for the county of Essex ... be, and they hereby are severally appointed to use their utmost endeavors to raise the men proportioned and fixed on the several towns in their respective counties: form them into companies, and direct their march to head-quarters, agreeable to a resolve of this Court of yesterday pass'd.
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 16, 1779 : Whereas upon examination, in consequence of a report of the committee for settling disputes between the towns in the several counties in this state respecting their quotas of men in the Continental Army, it appears that the committees in the counties of Plymouth, York, Hampshire, Berkshire and Lincoln ...
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].
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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 ...
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, July 7, 1780 : Whereas by an act of this Assembly passed at the last session, six hundred and ten effective men were ordered to be raised within this state, by the first day of July inst. to recruit the continental battalions of this state ... Be it therefore enacted ... that the persons hereafter named, be ... directed to form all male persons .. into classes ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas the General Assembly of this state, at their sessions at Hartford in May last, did enact, that there be forthwith raised within this state, by voluntary inlistment, eighteen hundred and thirty-six able-bodied effective men ... to be held in readiness to ... join and act in conjunction with the Continental Army ... I have therefore thought fit ... to offer ... as an encouragement to each ... that he shall have his poll exempted ... Given under my hand, at Lebanon .. the 20th day of June, A.D. 1782.
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 ...
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, December 28, 1776 : Resolved, that the following persons be and hereby are appointed to muster the men that have inlisted or shall inlist into the Continental Army, viz. ...
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 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 ...
State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, March 1, 1782 : An act for raising two hundred and fifty-nine men, to make up the full quota of this state's forces in the army of the United States.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Notice is hereby given to such persons as have received beating-orders from His Excellency Governour Shirley, to raise men for the defence of His Majesty's colonies in North-America, and have not made return of the inlistments ...
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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 ...
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