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, 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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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Powars, Edward Eveleth ; Willis, Nathaniel ; 1755-1831
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 6, 1777: Whereas there may be, in some instances, an omission, to renew the appointment of committees of correspondence, inspection and safety
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Massachusetts ; General Court. ; Edes, Benjamin ; 1732-1803
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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, 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, 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, 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, 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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State of New-York. Head-quarters, Poughkeepsie, July 1st, 1781. General orders: The Legislature having by law, passed at the present session, enacted, that a further levy of troops for the defence of the state ... should be immediately raised ... His Excellency the governor therefore orders that the commanding officers of the respective regiments, do forthwith proceed to the raising of these men
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New York (State) ; Governor (1777-1795 : Clinton). ; Clinton, George ; 1739-1812 ; Holt, John ; 1721-1784 ; Benson, Robert ; 1739-1823
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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 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. 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 General assembly, October session, A.D. 1778: Whereas many inhabitants of the island of Rhode Island, after having suffered every evil and insult, from the wanton cruelty of our enemies
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Rhode Island ; General Assembly. ; Carter, John ; 1745-1814 ; Mumford, William
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State of the troops, British and German, under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, at New-York, and posts depending, October 1, 1777 ; Return of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, commanded by the Earl of Drogheda, master-general, for the month of November, 1777
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Great Britain ; Army. ; Clinton, Henry ; 1738?-1795 ; Paterson, J.
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Supplement to the New-York gazetteer no. 44: Peace! Liberty! and Independence! : Philadelphia March 24, 1783. Yesterday arrived, after a passage of 32 days from Cadiz, a French sloop of war commanded by M. de Quesne, with the agreeable intelligence of peace. The particular articles respecting this happy and glorious event are as follows. The principle articles of the preliminaries of the peace of the 20th of January, 1783 ; New-York gazetteer, or, Northern intelligencer
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Balentine, Solomon ; Webster, Charles Richard ; 1762-1834 ; Great Britain ; 1783 Jan. 20.
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This indenture witnesseth, that [blank] hath put [blank]self, and by these presents doth voluntarily, and of h[blank] own free will and accord [blank] put and bind h[blank]self apprentice to [blank] to learn the art, trade or mistery [blank] after the manner of an apprentice
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To [blank] captain, or to the chief officer of the [blank] company in the [blank] regiment in this colony. Greeting: In pursuance of the direction of an act of the General Assembly, passed in December 1775, you are hereby ordered, first giving proper notice, to call together the company or train band under your command, and view and examine their arms and ammunition ... Given under my hand at [blank] the [blank] day of [blank] A.D. 177[blank]
To all gentlemen volunteers, who prefer liberty to slavery, and are hearty friends to the grand American cause
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Massachusetts ; State Train of Artillery. ; Crafts, Thomas. ; Powars, Edward Eveleth ; Willis, Nathaniel ; 1755-1831
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To satisfy the impatience of the public, for the late operations of the Royal Army in Pennsylvania: the printer has been desired to publish the following accounts of the glorious victory obtained on the 4th instant, by his Excellency General Sir William Howe, K. B. over the rebel army, under Mr. Washington ... and he has added copies of original letters from General Parsons and Colonel George Clinton, relating to the late successful attack of the forts on Hudson's River, under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton
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Clinton, George ; 1739-1812 ; Parsons, Samuel Holden ; 1737-1789 ; Rivington, James ; 1724-1802 ; Pintard, John ; 1759-1844
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To the public: The commissioners appointed by Congress to examine and liquidate the public accounts, for the northern district, give this public notice
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United States ; Office of the Commissioners of Accounts. ; Milligan, James. ; Carter, John. ; Welles, John.
