Edes, Benjamin, fl. 1776 [Revolutionary War enlistment broadside]

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GLC#
GLC09582
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
1776
Author/Creator
Edes, Benjamin, fl. 1776
Title
[Revolutionary War enlistment broadside]
Place Written
Watertown, Massachusetts
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 30.2 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
The War for Independence

Revolutionary War broadside encouraging enlistments by assuring recruits that their term of service would be short, permissing payment in lieu of service, but also empowering the commanding officer of each Militia, or the local Committee of Safety, "to muster the militia, when and so often as they may respectively find it necessary, in order for the obtaining the Quota designed."

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