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• State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, August 8, 1777 : Whereas by the loss of the important fortress of Ticonderoga, a way is open to the ravages of our cruel and inveterate enemies ... Resolve, that one sixth part of the able-bodied men in the training band and alarm list, now at home ... march ... to reinforce the American army
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• October, 1780. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations : begun and holden at Providence, within and for the state aforesaid, on the fourth Monday in October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and in the fifth year of independence
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  Published: (1785)