To all gentlemen volunteers, who prefer liberty to slavery, and are hearty friends to the grand American cause.

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Creator / Contributor: Massachusetts
State Train of Artillery.
Crafts, Thomas.
Powars, Edward Eveleth
Willis, Nathaniel
1755-1831
Title: To all gentlemen volunteers, who prefer liberty to slavery, and are hearty friends to the grand American cause
Place: Boston, Mass
Publisher: Printed by Powars and Willis?
Date: 1777]
1777
Physical Description: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 23 x 18 cm.
Notes: Encouragement for volunteers to enlist in the Massachusetts State Train of Artillery, commanded by Col. Thomas Crafts.
Text appeared as advertisement in the December 19, 1777, and subsequent issues of the Independent chronicle, published by Powars and Willis.
Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
N-YHS copy: inscription on recto: Golden-ball on Taunton green. Thos. Greenleaf, recruiting officer; manuscript annotations in the text; mounted on paper backing.
References: Bristol,
Shipton & Mooney,
Subject temporal: Revolution, 1775-1783
Subject: Bounties, Military
Recruiting and enlistment
History
American forces
History, Military
Subject corporate name: Massachusetts.
State Train of Artillery.
Subject geographic name: Massachusetts
United States
Material type or medium of original: government publication
Broadsides.