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MS-W.775.016
9 Aug 1775:31 (233)
Philadelphia, July 26 in Congress, July 18, 1775. Resolved,
that it be recommended to the inhabitants of all the United
English Colonies in North-America, that all able-bodied
effective men, between 16 and 50 years of age, in each
colony, immediately form themselves into regular companies
of militia, to consist of one Captain, two Lieutenants, one
Ensign, four Serjeants, four Corporals, one Clerk, one
Drummer, one Fifer, and about fifty eight Privates. . . [117
more lines, signed] Charles Thompson, Sec'ry.
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