State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, January 26th, 1777
Subtitle: Ordered, that the following address be printed ... To the people of Massachusetts-Bay. Friends and countrymen! When a people within reach of the highest temporal happiness ... are in danger of having it wrested from them ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15426
Publisher: Printed by Benjamin Edes
Published: 1777
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Recruiting, enlistment; Recruiting and enlistment; History; American forces; Military History; United States. Continental Army
Other titles: To the people of Massachusetts-Bay. Friends and countrymen
Notes: Encouragement for the Continental Congress's plan to raise eighty-eight battalions (cf. Evans 15425) and for Massachusetts residents to enlist and fulfill their quota of fifteen battalions.

"In Council, January 28, 1777. Read and concurred."--p. 2.

Imprint supplied by Evans.

Evans 15426

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2075

Cushing, J.D. Mass. laws, 979