State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, June session, 1780 : An act for raising, and sending into the field, six hundred and ten men, to recruit the continental battalions raised by this state, under the command of Colonel Christopher Greene, and Colonel Israel Angell.
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