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:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massachusetts. Committee of Safety.

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 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

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.

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 43067).

Cited in:

Bristol B4253

Shipton and Mooney 43067

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2019

Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 954

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