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• In the House of Representatives, January 19, 1776. : Whereas it is of great importance, not only to the inhabitants of this colony, but also of all the United Colonies, that the lines and fortifications at Cambridge and Roxbury should at all events be maintained ...
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• In the House of Representatives, Dec. 2, 1775 : resolved, that Mr. Guild, for the county of Suffolk ; Messr's Hopkins, Phillips and Mighill, and Major Cross, for the county of Essex ... be, and they hereby are severally appointed to use their utmost endeavors to raise the men proportioned and fixed on the several towns in their respective counties: form them into companies, and direct their march to head-quarters, agreeable to a resolve of this Court of yesterday pass'd.
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• Boston, December 15, 1780. : At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, on the 13th instant, --- it was voted, that a committee of three persons for each ward, be chosen to class the inhabitants that are rated ... into one hundred and eighty-one classes ; [each] class to furnish a man for the Continental Army ...
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