At a meeting of the governor and Council of Safety, holden at Hartford, on the 19th day of June A.D. 1781 Whereas ... His Excellency the governor hath received from His Excellency General Washington, a very pressing and earnest requistion for eight hundred men ... Therefore resolved, by the governor and Council of Safety, that there be forthwith raised in this state, eight hundred able bodied effective men (Printed by Hudson & Goodwin, 1781)
Bristol, B5252. - Shipton & Mooney, 43955. - Signed: Extract from the minutes, test, Benjamin Payne, clerk