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SG(R.775.009
3 Mar 1775:33 (1/36)
County of Fairfax, in Virginia. Col. George Washington in
the chair.
Resolved, that it be recommended that the sum of three
shillings per poll, for the aforesaid, be paid, by and for
every tithable person. . . [4 lines]
And also resolved, that such of the inhabitants of this
county as are from sixteen to fifty years of age, to form
themselves into companies of 68 men, to chuse a captain, two
lieutenants, an ensign, four serjeants, four corporals, and
a drummer, for each company; that they provide themselves
with good firelocks, and use their utmost endeavors to make
themselves masters of the military exercise, published by
order of his Majesty in 1764, recommended by the provincial
Congress of the Massachusetts-Bay, on the 29th of October
last.
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