In Congress, April 29, 1777: Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states forthwith to order the sums advanced by them for recruiting the Continental battalions
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Dunlap, John ; 1747-1812
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By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire ... A proclamation: Whereas a party of British troops made an incursion and attack on the towns of New-London and Groton, on the sixth of September last ... I ... do hereby appoint, Thursday the thirteenth day of December next, the day set apart for thanksgiving ... for the good people in each and every of the religious societies and congregations throughout this state, to give and bestow their free and charitable donations, for the comfort and relief of the sufferers ... Given under my hand in Lebanon, the twenty-second day of November ... one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-one
Committee-chamber, New-York, April 13th 1776: The following persons of this the city and county, are recommended by the general comittee of the same, as persons worthy to serve in the ensuing Provincial Congress
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New York Committee of Fifty ; Abeel, Garret ; 1734-1799 ; Holt, John ; 1721-1784
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, May 5, 1777: That the happiness of mankind depends very much on the form and constitution of government they live under ... We do resolve, that it be, and hereby is recommended to the several towns ... to send members to the General Assembly ... to form such a constitution of government, as they shall judge best calculated to promote the happiness of this state
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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Edes, Benjamin ; 1732-1803
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In Council. Philadelphia, July 31, 1777: Sir, I wrote to you on the 28th instant, and ordered [blank] class of the militia of your county to be immediately marched to Chester
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Pennsylvania ; Council of Safety. ; Wharton, Thomas ; 1735-1778
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Gentlemen, Although a certain day is fixed for the session of Congress, which we beg leave to remind you is the first of February; and although we have no prospect of necessity of calling the Congress sooner, yet we have abundant reason to request that the meeting may be as full as possible on that day
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New York (State) ; Committee of Safety. ; Van Cortlandt, Pierre ; 1721-1814
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In Congress, April 23, 1778: Whereas persuasion and influence, the example of the deluded or wicked, the fear of danger, or the calamities of war, may have induced some of the subjects of these states to join, aid or abet the British forces in America
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Hall, David ; 1755-1821 ; Hall, William ; 1752-1834 ; Sellers, William ; 1725?-1804 ; McKesson, John ; 1734-1798
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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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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Dunlap, John ; 1747-1812
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A Declaration, or Ordinance, of the Convention of the State of New-York, passed May 10, 1777, offering free pardon to such of the subjects of the said State, as, having committed treasonable acts against the same, shall return to their allegiance. Whereas divers of the subjects of this State, have been seduced from their allegiance to the same, by the arts of subtle and wicked emissaries from the enemy ... Extract from the minutes. Robert Benson, Sec'ry
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New York (State) ; Convention of the Representatives ; (1776-1777) ; Loudon, Samuel ; 1727?-1813
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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; and as the mode of classing has been more successful in procuring the men than any other measure: 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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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Edes, Benjamin ; 1732-1803 ; Edes, Benjamin ; 1755-1801 ; Edes, Peter ; 1756-1840
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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, 1779: Resolved, that, Mr. Elijah Hubbard be and he is hereby appointed a sub or state cloathier for this state, to reside with, or near the army ... to receive and distribute the cloathing that shall be furnished for the troops of the Connecticut line, in the Continental Army
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Connecticut ; General Assembly. ; Hudson, Barzillai ; 1741-1823 ; Goodwin, George ; 1757-1844
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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
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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Edes, Benjamin ; 1732-1803
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, January 26th, 1777: Ordered, that the following address be printed, and a copy thereof sent to each minister of the gospel within this state ... To the people of Massachusetts-Bay. Friends and countrymen! When a people within reach of the highest temporal happiness human nature is capable of, are in danger of having it wrested from them ; To the people of Massachusetts-Bay
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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Edes, Benjamin ; 1732-1803 ; Skinner, Aaron. ; Taintor, Charles M. (Charles Micaiell) ; b. 1817
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State of New-York, an act for completing the five Continental battalions, raised under the direction of this state ; Act for completing the five Continental battalions, raised under the direction of this state ; Act for completing the five Continental battalions
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New York (State) ; Holt, John ; 1721-1784
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A state of the receipts and expenditures of public monies upon warrants from the superintendant of finance, from the 1st of January 1782, to the 1st of January 1783
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United States ; Register of the Treasury. ; Nourse, Joseph ; 1754-1841 ; Claypoole, David C. ; 1757?-1849
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Proposals made to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the Pennsylvania Line, at Trenton, January 7, 1781: His Excellency Joseph Reed, Esquire, President, and the Honourable Brigadier-General Potter, of the Council of Pennsylvania, having heard the complaints of the soldiers ... are fully authorized to redress reasonable grievances
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Pennsylvania ; Supreme Executive Council. ; Reed, Joseph ; 1741-1785 ; Potter, James ; 1729-1789
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In the House of Representatives, November 1, 1776: Ordered, that the following address from the General Court of this state, to the officers and private soldiers who are gone from thence and are serving in the American army, be printed in two thousand hand-bills
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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Bowdoin, James ; 1726-1790 ; Edes, Benjamin ; 1732-1803
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In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 13, 1776: Whereas this Congress have been informed by the Continental Congress, and have great reason to believe that an invasion of this colony will very shortly be made. Resolved unanimously, that it be, and it is hereby recommended to all the officers in the militia in this colony, forthwith to review the same, and give orders that they prepare themselves
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New York (Colony) ; Provincial Congress. ; Benson, Robert ; 1739-1823 ; Holt, John ; 1721-1784
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At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Connecticut: holden at Hartford, by adjournment, on the 2d Thursday of January, A.D. 1778
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Connecticut ; General Assembly. ; Wyllys, George ; 1710-1796
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At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on thesecond [sic] Thursday of May, 1781: An act, in further addition to an act, intitled, "An act for filling up this state's quota of the Continental Army." ; Act, in further addition to an act, intitled, "An act for filling up this state's quota of the Continental Army" ; At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1781 ; Act, in further addition to an act
