Watertown, August 14 1775 : This day the following resolve passed the General Court or Assembly of the colony of Massachusetts-Bay. : In Council, August 13, 1775.

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 20, 1778 : Whereas Congress by their resolve of February 18th, 1778, has called upon this state for thirteen hundred of the Militia thereof ...
Published: (1778)

State of Massachusetts Bay. In the House of Representatives. September 14, 1779 : Whereas it is indispensably necessary that a supply of blankets should be immediately procured for the service of the army: resolved, that the selectmen of each town ... are required to collect from the inhabitants of the town ... a number of blankets ...
Published: (1779)

State of Massachusetts Bay. In the House of Representatives. September 14, 1779 : Whereas it is indispensably necessary that a supply of blankets should be immediately procured for the service of the army: resolved, that the selectmen of each town ... are required to collec from the inhabitants of the town ... a number of blankets ...
Published: (1779)

Extract from the resolves of the General Court of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, passed on the 30th day of November, A.D. 1776 : A resolve, for amending and explaining a late act of the General Assembly of this state, intitled "An act for providing a reinforcement to the American army."
Published: (1776)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Sept. 29th, 1780 : Whereas by a resolve of the General Court, passed the 4th of May last, the agents appointed in the several counties in this state to receive from the towns ...
Published: (1780)

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 ...
Published: (1777)

Connecticut. By the governor, a proclamation : Whereas I am desired by Major-General Schuyler ... to issue a proclamation of pardon to all such deserters from the Continental Army in the northern department, as belong to, or reside in Connecticut, and shall return to their duty by a limited time ... Given under my hand in Lebanon, the 16th day of July ... 1776. ...
Published: (1776)

The General Assembly having passed a resolve for raising a sum of money ... for the benefit of those officers and soldiers who inlisted into the fifteen Continental battalions raised by this state, appointed ... directors of a lottery for that purpose ... The following scheme is accordingly offered ... Massachusetts-State lottery. ...
Published: (1778)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 8, 1779 : Whereas it appears that an agreement was made between the four New-England states ... to keep up a certain number of men in the state of Rhode-Island, so long as the enemy kept in force there ... resolved, that eight hundred men, non-commissioned officers included, in addition to those ordered to be raised to be under the command of Colonel Jacobs, be raised to serve ... in the following manner ...
Published: (1779)

In the House of Representatives, Watertown, August 10th, 1775 : Inasmuch as the time prefixed by the Continental Congress, prohibiting all exportation to Great-Britain, Ireland and the English West-India islands is not yet come ...
Published: (1775)

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 ...
Published: (1777)

Boston, [blank] 1780 : In pursuance of a vote of the town, passed the 16th of October, 1780, borrowed and received of [blank] the sum of [blank] of the new emission, to enable the town to comply with a requisition of the General Court ... to procure beef for the army ...
Published: (1780)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, 23d June, 1780 : Whereas His Excellency General Washington hath made a requisition upon this state for one thousand and twenty horses ... Resolved, that the agents appointed ... procure ... the number of good and serviceable horses allotted their respective towns in the schedule hereto annexed ... In Council, June 23, 1780. Read and concurred. ...
Published: (1780)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, 23d June, 1780 : Whereas His Excellency General Washington hath made a requisition upon this state for one thousand and twenty horses ... Resolved, that the agents appointed ... procure ... the number of good and serviceable horses allotted their respective towns in the schedule hereto annexed ... In Council, June 23, 1780. Read and concurred. ...
Published: (1780)

State of Massachusetts-Bay, in the House of Representatives, February 4, 1779 : On the petition of the officers ... in behalf of themselves and the soldiers under their command. Resolved, that the selectmen or committees ... are enjoined to supply the families of ... soldiers inlisted from their respective towns ... in manner directed by a resolve ... passed upon the 10th day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven ...
Published: (1779)

State of Massachusetts-Bay, in the House of Representatives, February 4, 1779 : On the petition of the officers ... in behalf of themselves and the soldiers under their command. Resolved, that the selectmen or committees ... are enjoined to supply the families of ... soldiers inlisted from their respective towns ... in manner directed by a resolve ... passed upon the 10th day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven ...
Published: (1779)

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.
Published: (1777)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, May 5th, 1780 : Resolved, that the selectmen ... transmit to the agents appointed ... the monthly average prices of beef, Indian corn, sheeps-wool, and sole leather ...
Published: (1780)

Rag, tag, and bobtail; the story of the Continental Army, 1775-1783 /
by: Montross, Lynn, 1895-1961
Published: (1952)

In Provincial Congress, Watertown, June 30, 1775 : Resolved, that all offences committed by any of the soldiers rais'd for defence of the sea coast, shall be tried by a court martial ...
Published: (1775)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Honorable Henry Gardner, Esq; treasurer and receiver-general of said commonwealth : To the selectmen or assessors of the town of [blank] Greeting, &c. In obedience to a resolution ... these are in the name of said commonwealth, to will and require you forthwith to assess the sum ... being the average price of the cost of raising the men to supply the deficiency of the Massachusetts line of the army ... Given under my hand and seal at Boston, the thirty-first day of July ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two ...
Published: (1782)

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. ...
Published: (1776)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, October 8, 1777 : Whereas by information from the commanding officer ... a number of drafted men ... have not joined their respective regiments: Therefore, resolved, that the comanding officer of the militia of each town ... arrest such persons ... and deliver them to the commanding officer of the detachments raised by this state ...
Published: (1777)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 30, 1779 : Whereas the honorable Congress by a resolve of the ninth of March last, have requested this state to fill up the fifteen battalions as our quota of the Continental Army ... Resolved, that fifteen hundred men be immediately raised by inlistment ...
Published: (1779)

A citizen-soldier in the American Revolution : the diary of Benjamin Gilbert in Massachusetts and New York /
by: Gilbert, Benjamin, 1755-1828
Published: (1980)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, October 20, 1781 : Whereas, notwithstanding the resolves of the General Court ... there is still a deficiency of several towns ... in supplying the quota of men apportioned on them ...
Published: (1781)

Maps and seismic profiles showing geology of the inner continental shelf, Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts /
Published: (1987)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, Dec. 4th, 1780 : Whereas by the resolutions of Congress of the fourth day of November last, the United States are required to furnish their respective proportions of specific supplies for the support of the army the ensuing year. ... therefore, resolved, that the inhabitants of the several towns ... are required to furnish a number of cattle ...
Published: (1780)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, June 22, 1781 : Whereas the supplies of beef hitherto made by the several towns ... are found to be insufficient ... Be it therefore resolved, that the inhabitants of the several towns ... are hereby required, to furnish the quantity of live beef ... as in the schedule hereunto annexed ...
Published: (1781)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, June 22, 1781 : Whereas it is necessary for the support of the army ... resolved, that the selectmen of each town in this Commonwealth ... procure ... eight thousand shirts, eight thousand pair of stockings, eight thousand pair of shoes, and four thousand blankets ...
Published: (1781)

In Congress, August 16, 1779 : Resolved, that the cloathier general estimate the value of the several articles of soldiers cloathing at the prices they were respectively worth at the end of the year 1778 ...
Published: (1779)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 9, 1779 : Whereas a requisition has been made to this court for a reinforcement for the Continental Army ... Resolved, that there be two thousand men raised ... by draft, lot, or voluntary inlistment ... agreeable to the schedule herewith annexed ...
Published: (1779)

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 ...
Published: (1775)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Mar. 23, 1780 : Resolved, that Major-General Heath ... appoint such number of recruiting officers belonging to the line of this state ... to compleat this state's quota of the Continental Army ...
Published: (1780)

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 ...
Published: (1777)

In Provincial Congress, Watertown, May 15th, 1775 : Whereas some of the inhabitants of this colony, and most of them such as have been inimical to the constitution and interest of the same, are now ... taking steps to remove themselves and effects out of this colony ...
Published: (1775)