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[Printed resolution of recruitment schedule]

1,500 men are needed for the "Massachusetts Line." Lists quota required from each town. Also resolves that a tax will be imposed if these quotas are not met. A few handwritten calculations in the margins.

[Pages 1-4 are present, but the document...

GLC01450.430

[Printed resolution of recruitment schedule]

Broadside says that the 4,240 troops apportioned on Massachusetts was not a sufficient quota to fill out the Massachusetts Line by nearly 1,000 men. Because of casualties and this shortage, the state needs to raise another 1,500 men for three years...

GLC01450.602.01

[Printed resolution on collection of clothing and blankets] [incomplete]

Asks that the selectmen of each town to collect from town inhabitants, or otherwise procure, the items listed in the resolution by 20 September 1781. The resolution calls for 8,000 shirts, 8,000 pairs of stockings, 8,000 pairs of shoes, and 4,000...

GLC01450.602.02

An act for granting compensation to the sufferers . . .

GLC07654.26

Address of House of Representatives to Governor Bernard re: charter rights

GLC07654.27

Copy of a circular letter to colonial governments re: taxes imposed on colonies

GLC07654.37