Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston, March 15, 1782. : Whereas the General Court of this commonwealth on the eighth day of March instant did resolve, "That eighty-five men ... be immediately raised within the town of Boston, as said town's proportion for compleating and recruiting the Massachusetts line of the Continental Army."--and whereas the General Court did further resolve .. to class the inhabitants of said town ... into eighty-five classes ... each person contained in such class shall pay towards procuring the man for said class ... In compliance with said resolves, the assessors ... have fixed upon the under-written persons to compose one class, viz. To Mr. [blank] head of class, no. [blank] in ward no. [blank].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boston (Mass.)

Contributor:

Massachusetts. General Court.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44180.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Continental Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.

United States.

United States. Continental Army.

Recruiting and enlistment.

History.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects.

Boston (Mass.)--Registers.

Boston (Mass.).

Genre:

Broadsides.

Blank forms.

Registers (Lists)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1782]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Printed area, on top half of sheet, measures 14.5 x 18.8 cm.; lower half blank for recording the names of persons in the class.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 44180).

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Bristol B5497

Shipton and Mooney 44180

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