RESOLVES OF THE GENERAL COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, IN NEW-ENGLAND; BEGUN AND HELD AT BOSTON, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, ON WEDNESDAY THE TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF OCTOBER, ANNO DOMINI, 1780.
Boston: Nathaniel Willis, 1781. Folio. 53, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, untrimmed, occasional fox mark; small holes at leaf 23-24 affect several letters. Good+.
The Resolves focus on many Revolutionary war matters: Resolve on the petition of Col. Josiah Brewer, and of Orana and other chiefs of the Penobscot tribe that the Commissary- General provide for the person whom the French Consul has sent as an instructor, including a list of articles to be presented to the Indians for their use; resolves on funding, furnishing the troops, enlistments, currency fraud and depreciation; establishing wages for a company of matrosses [artillery soldiers] under the command of Paul Revere; a resolve printing the form of enlistment for persons entering into "the service of the United States."
Evans 16850. ESTC W33232 [AAS, Boston Public, Harvard, HSP]. Item #36322
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