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By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq; governor ... of Connecticut
Whereas the General Assembly of this colony at their special sessions on the fourteenth day of June, A.D. 1776, enacted, that seven battalions of the inhabitants of this colony should be immediately raised by voluntary inlistment, to join the Continental Army at New York ... Given under my hand, in the Council chamber at Hartford, the 18th day of June, A.D. 1776
Proclamation establishing the "premiums, allowances and encouragements" offered to those enlisting. Signed: Jonathan Trumbull.
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