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• For the encouragement of those that shall inlist in the Continental Army : --the Congress in their resolves of September 16th, 18th, 19th, October 8th, and November 12th, 1776, engage, that twenty dollars be given as a bounty ... And for their further encouragement, the stat of Massachusetts-Bay, has, by a resolve of November 25 last engaged
  Published: (1776)
• State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Sept. 30th, 1779 : Whereas the time of inlistment of part of this state's quota of the confederated army of America is near expiring
  Published: (1779)
• The Rise and continuance of the substitutes, in the Continental Army : Containing, extracts I. From the journals of Congress. II. From the committee of Congress ... III. From the Pennsylvania War-Office. IV. From a declaration of the rights of Pennsylvania. V. From the plan or frame of government. VI. From the Militia Act of Pennsylvania. &c. &c. With the opinion of several eminent lawyers. [Five lines from Cato] Published for the use of all, who are yet capable of noticing, the proper discriminations, which will eternally exist between right and wrong
  Published: (1777)
• State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, January 25, 1777 : The perseverance of Britain in her attempts to subjugate the free states of America ... demands a vigorous perseverance in the inhabitants of these states ... For this end the supreme council of the continent ... have called for eighty-eight battalions ... and for fifteen of them from the Massachusetts-Bay
  Published: (1777)
• State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 3, 1778 : Notwithstanding repeated orders ... to make returns of all the male inhabitants ... above the age of sixteen years; and ... all the men inlisted into the Continental Army ... Resolved that ... said committees ... make immediate returns
  Published: (1778)