By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq; governor ... of Connecticut
Subtitle: Whereas the General Assembly of this colony at their special sessions on the fourteenth day of June, A.D. 1776, enacted, that seven battalions of the inhabitants of this colony should be immediately raised by voluntary inlistment, to join the Continental Army at New York ... Given under my hand, in the Council chamber at Hartford, the 18th day of June, A.D. 1776. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43011
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Hartford?
Language: eng
Subjects: Recruiting and enlistment; History; American forces; Military History; United States. Continental Army
Notes: Proclamation establishing the "premiums, allowances and encouragements" offered to those enlisting. Signed: Jonathan Trumbull.

Bristol B4197

Shipton & Mooney 43011