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• Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, February 5, 1760. : For the encouragement of five thousand able-bodied effective persons (inclusive of officers and exclusive of the provincial troops at Nova-Scotia and Louisbourg,) to inlist into the service of this province in the ensuing campaign for the total reduction of Canada ; the Great and General Court of said province in their present session have voted the following encouragement and bounty ...
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• By the Honourable James Hamilton, Esq ; lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania, and the counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex, on Delaware, a proclamation. : Whereas by an act of Assembly ... it is provided, that there shall be forthwith raised three hundred effective men ... Given under my hand, and the great seal of the said province, at Philadelphia, this seventeenth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one.
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• State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives. June 18, 1779. : Resolved, that the resolution of the 16th of April last, entitling each non-commissioned officer and soldier who shall inlist into the regiment of light-infantry ...
  Published: (1779)
• By the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq ; His Majesty's lieutenant governor and commander in chief of the province of New-York ... : Having received information that the inlistment of volunteers to serve in the forces in the pay of this colony, has been greatly discouraged, from an apprehension that they may be compelled to enter in the King's regular forces ... Given under my hand at Fort-George, in New-York, the twenty-first day of May, 1762.
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• By the Honourable Thomas Fitch, Esq ; governor and commander in chief of His Majesty's English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America. A proclamation. : ... I ... do hereby publish and make known, that every able-bodied effective man that shall voluntarily inlist in either of the regiments ... shall be entitled to receive four pounds ... Given under my hand, in New-Haven this twenty-fifth day of March ...
  Published: (1758)