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In the House of Representatives, January 19, 1776 : Whereas it is of great importance, not only to the inhabitants of this colony, but also of all the United Colonies, that the lines and fortifications at Cambridge and Roxbury should at all events be maintained ...

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Corporate Authors:	Massachusetts. General Court, Gale (Firm)
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In the House of Representatives, January 19, 1776 : Whereas it is of great importance, not only to the inhabitants of this colony, but also of all the United Colonies, that the lines and fortifications at Cambridge and Roxbury should at all events be maintained ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Sept. 30th, 1779 : Whereas the time of inlistment of part of this state's quota of the confederated army of America is near expiring ...
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, January 25, 1777 : The perseverance of Britain in her attempts to subjugate the free states of America ... demands a vigorous perseverance in the inhabitants of these states ... For this end the supreme council of the continent ... have called for eighty-eight battalions ... and for fifteen of them from the Massachusetts-Bay ...
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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 ...
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 23, 1780 : Whereas the troops of the southern states will now be needed for the defence of that quarter, and by reason of the late advantages obtained by the enemy, we are compelled to call for a further supply of men, to fill up our battalions ... as well as a detachment of militia ...
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The Rise and continuance of the substitutes, in the Continental Army : Containing, extracts I. From the journals of Congress. II. From the committee of Congress ... III. From the Pennsylvania War-Office. IV. From a declaration of the rights of Pennsylvania. V. From the plan or frame of government. VI. From the Militia Act of Pennsylvania. &c. &c. With the opinion of several eminent lawyers. [Five lines from Cato] Published for the use of all, who are yet capable of noticing, the proper discriminations, which will eternally exist between right and wrong.
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In the House of Representatives, January 21, 1776 : Whereas it is of very great importance to our brethren the inhabitants of Canada, and to the inhabitants of the United Colonies ... that the advantages gained under the smiles of Providence by the American arms, during the year last past, over the ministerial forces in Canada, should be maintained ...
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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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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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In the House of Representatives, January 9, 1776 : Whereas it appears to this Court, that the part of the militia of this colony now in the American Army as a temporary reinforcement ...
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In the House of Representatives, July 10th, 1776 : Whereas the Honorable the American Congress have lately made upon the colony of the Massachusetts-Bay a most urgent requisition for a further reinforcement by two regiments of its militia, to support our army in the northern or Canada department ...
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In Congress, January 17, 1776 : Resolved, that the colonels of the several battalions, ordered to be raised, do immediately order their officers on recruiting service, to such parts where they are best known and have the greatest probability of success. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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In the House of Representatives, April 9, 1776 : Whereas it is of the greatest importance, not only to the inhabitants of Boston, but of this whole colony, that the town and harbour of the said Boston should be effectually fortified and secured against any attacks from the enemy ... Resolved, that there be immediately raised eight companies ...
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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 ...
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[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.].
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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 ...
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, January 25, 1777 : The perseverance of Britain in her attempts to subjugate the free states of America ... demands a vigorous perseverance in the inhabitants of these states ... For this end the supreme council of the continent ... have called for eighty-eight battalions ... and for fifteen of them from the Massachusetts-Bay ...
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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.
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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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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.
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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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In the House of Representatives, July 11th, 1776 : Whereas this Court have been informed that some of the towns and plantations in this colony have not as yet raised the proportion assigned them of the five thousand men for the reinforcement of the Continental Army in New York and Canada ...
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, November 27, 1780 : A resolve prescribing the form of inlistment for those men belonging to this commonwealth, who shall inlist into the service of the United States, to continue in the service until the end of the present war with Britain ...
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, November 27, 1780 : Resolved, that the following persons be appointed in each county to muster the men that shall inlist into the Continental Army ...
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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 ...
Published: (1780)

State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, February session, 1782 : Whereas great frauds have been committed, and the recruiting service greatly injured ...
Published: (1782)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 20, 1778 : Resolve for filling up and compleating the fifteen battalions of Continental troops, directed to be raised in the state of Massachusetts-Bay.
Published: (1778)

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 ...
Published: (1780)

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.
Published: (1781)