State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, December session, A.D. 1783: Whereas the most honorable the Congress of the United States ... did resolve, that one million two hundred thousand dollars be raised by the several states, and applied towards paying the interest due on certificates issued from the loan-office ... Be it therefore enacted ... that the keeper of the continental loan-office in this state ... consolidate all the loan-office certificates ... and certify the value of each
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Rhode Island ; Carter, John ; 1745-1814
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State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In Council of War, July 1, 1777: Whereas blankets are wanted for the men raised in the fifteen months brigade of this state
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Rhode Island ; Council of War. ; Carter, John ; 1745-1814 ; Ward, Henry ; 1732-1797
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State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations: At a meeting of the committee appointed to act during the recess of the General-Assembly, held at the Court House in Newport, on the twelfth day of September, A.D. 1776. Resolved that, to raise the battalion of militia now ordered
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Rhode Island ; General Assembly. ; Carter, John ; 1745-1814 ; Ward, Henry ; 1732-1797
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, March 13, 1778: Whereas the army are in present and pressing want of shoes, stockings and shirts, which cannot be immediately supplied from the public stores; this Court now apply
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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Powars, Edward Eveleth ; Willis, Nathaniel ; 1755-1831
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 10, 1778: Whereas it appears that our enemies intend to wreath [sic] their vengeance ... and to that end have made several excursions lately from Rhode-Island ... Resolved, that eighteen hundred men be raised ; State of Massachusetts Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 10, 1778
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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Powars, Edward Eveleth ; Willis, Nathaniel ; 1755-1831
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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 Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 6, 1777: That the army may be duly supplied with shoes, stockings, and shirts, it is resolved, that the selectmen of the several towns ... appoint some ... person or persons, as agent or agents ... to purchase ... shoes ... stockings and shirts
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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Edes, Benjamin ; 1732-1803
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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 under such brigadier or brigadiers as the council shall direct, to reinforce the American army
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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Gill, John ; 1732-1785
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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 Connecticut, General Assembly, October 23, 1777. In the Lower House, ordered, that the articles of convention between Major General Gates, and Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, be printed and dispensed to the several towns in this state ; Articles of convention between Lieutenant-General Burgoyne and Major-General Gates
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Connecticut ; General Assembly. ; Burgoyne, John ; 1722-1792 ; Gates, Horatio ; 1728-1806
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Sir, The opinion which General Washington and all the general officers of our army entertain of the designs of General Howe against this state
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Pennsylvania ; Council of Safety. ; Wharton, Thomas ; 1735-1778 ; Lacey, John ; 1755-1814
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Resolves of the Honourable Continental Congress: (Published by order of the General Committee, for the city and county of Albany.) ; Tory act
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Thomson, Charles ; 1729-1824
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Die Repräsentanten der Vereinigten Staaten von America, im Congress versammelt, an das Volk überhaupt, und an die Einwohner Pennsylvaniens und der angrenzenden Staaten insbesondere
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Hancock, John ; 1737-1793 ; Miller, John Henry ; 1702-1782
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Providence, July 26, 1779. Sir; By the annexed vote of the town of Providence, you will perceive the anxious desire they possess of having the purposes therein expressed carried into execution
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Providence (R.I.) ; Committee of Correspondence. ; Bowen, Jabez ; 1739-1815 ; Carter, John ; 1745-1814
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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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Philadelphia, July 20, 1776. By an express arrived yesterday from South-Carolina, we have the following important intelligence: Extract of a letter from Fort Johnson, South-Carolina, July, 2, 1776
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Towne, Benjamin ; d. 1793 ; McKesson, John ; 1734-1798
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Philadelphia, January 27, 1781: My late engagements of a public nature have prevented my taking earlier notice of a report ... that I had or was concerned in trading to New-York. I declare it to be false and scandalous
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Reed, Joseph ; 1741-1785
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Pennsylvania War-Office, Philadelphia, May 2d, 1777: Application having been made to this board by the Honorable Major General Schuyler for assistance in procuring blankets
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Pennsylvania ; Board of War. ; Dunlap, John ; 1747-1812
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Paris, May 18, 1778: Gentlemen, Certain intelligence having been received, that eleven British ships of war ... are in the road of St. Hellens, near Portsmouth, bound for North-America
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Franklin, Benjamin ; 1706-1790 ; Adams, John ; 1735-1826 ; Thomson, Charles ; 1729-1824 ; United States ; Continental Congress.
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On this day of renown, all joys shower down
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Gaine, Hugh ; 1726 or 7-1807 ; Odell, Jonathan ; 1737-1818
