Citation - New England Chronicle-Cambridge: 1775.08.10

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Index Entry Drummers, in American militia, one per company, in resolution of Congress 
Location Philadelphia 
Citation
NECH-C.775.013
3-10 Aug 1775:12 (8/367)
Philadelphia.  In Congress, July 18, 1775. Resolved that it
be recommended to the inhabitants of all the United English
Colonies in North America, that all able bodied effective
men, between sixteen and fifty years of age in each colony
immediately form themselves into regular companies of
militia, to consist of one captain, . . . one drummer, one
fifer, and about sixty-eight privates.


Generic Title New England Chronicle-Cambridge 
Date 1775.08.10 
Publisher Hall, Samuel and Ebenezer 
City, State Cambridge, MA 
Year 1775 
Bibliography B0022138
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