At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1781 : His Excellency General Washington, having represented the necessity of having fifteen hundred men, in readiness to march upon the shortest notice ... Resolved ... that the two state regiments ... shall, by the first day of July next, if not filled ... by voluntary inlistment ... be compleated by peremptory detachment ...