Proclamation. By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire .. : Whereas the General Assembly at their present sessions, in consequence of a requisition from Congress ... resolved, that their [sic] be immediately raised by voluntary inlistment, six hundred effective men ... Given under my hand, in the council chamber at Hartford, the nineteenth day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ..

Similar Items

• Proclamation. By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire .. Whereas the General Assembly at their present sessions, in consequence of a requisition from Congress ... resolved, that their [sic] be immediately raised by voluntary inlistment, six hundred effective men ... Given under my hand, in the council chamber at Hartford, the nineteenth day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ...
  Published: (1779)
• Proclamation. By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire .. Whereas the General Assembly at their present sessions, in consequence of a requisition from Congress ... resolved, that their [sic] be immediately raised by voluntary inlistment, six hundred effective men ... Given under my hand, in the council chamber at Hartford, the nineteenth day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ...
  Published: (1779)
• By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, captain-general, and commander in chief of the state of Connecticut, in America. A proclamation Whereas the Honorable Continental Congress have resolved that eight battalions of troops be raised ... each non-commissioned officer and soldier, inhabitants of this state, who shall inlist himself ... shall be entitled to have and receive, not only the bounty, wages and allowances, offered by Congress ... but also all such further encouragements as are offered and granted by the General Assembly of this state ... Given under my hand in New-Haven, the sixth day of November, anno Domini, 1776.
  Published: (1776)
• By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, captain-general, and commander in chief of the state of Connecticut, in America. A proclamation. : Whereas the Honorable Continental Congress have resolved that eight battalions of troops be raised ... each non-commissioned officer and soldier, inhabitants of this state, who shall inlist himself .. shall be entitled to have and receive, not only the bounty, wages and allowances, offered by Congress ... but also all such further encouragements as are offered and granted by the General Assembly of this state ... Given under my hand in New-Haven, the sixth day of November, anno Domini, 1776
  Published: (1776)
• State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 23, 1778 : Whereas, by a resolve of the General Court, of the twentieth day of this instant, April, the several towns in this state are ordered to raise 2000 men, to reinforce the Continental Army ... but no provision is made therein of any encouragement ... Resolved, that each town ... be allowed thirty pounds for each man they shall raise ..
  Published: (1778)