To [blank] You are hereby empowered immediately to inlist a company : to consist of eighty-six able-bodied and effective men ... upon the establishment fixed by the honorable Congress, with the additional encouragement given by the states of the Massachusetts Bay .. [blank] day of [blank] 1776. [blank] Committee of Massachusetts State.

Format:

• Microformat

Contributor:

• United States. Continental Congress.
• Massachusetts. General Court.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43067.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Recruiting and enlistment.
• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces.
• United States.
• History.

Genre:

• Broadsides.

Physical Description:

• 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 23+ x 23 cm
• 4x6 in.
• monochrome
• service copy
• negative

Place of Publication:

[Watertown, Mass.?] : [Printed by Benjamin Edes?], [1776]

Notes:

• Followed by: State of Massachusetts-Bay, October 19, 1776. The following are extracts from the resolves of Congress, transmitted to the General Assembly of this state, viz. The resolves include an "additional encouragement given by the state of Massachusetts-Bay, to their quota of men, to be raised by that state."
• Place of publication suggested by Bristol. Benjamin Edes was the only printer active at Watertown in 1776.
• Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43067).

Cited in:

• Bristol B4253
• Shipton & Mooney 43067
• Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2019
• Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 954

OCLC:

152428599