CONTINENTAL ARMY RECRUITMENT BROADSIDE.


Resolved by this Assembly, that the several Towns in this State, do proceed immediately to fill up and recruit their Several Quotas of the Continental Army, according to the Directions and Provisions of an Act passed by this Assembly.... Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, October, 1780. Printed broadside, 323 x 204 mm. Leaf creased, some dampstaining at upper margin and lower left corner, left margin chipped.CONNECTICUT ENLISTS SOLDIERS FOR THE CAUSE. In this broadside, issued by the Governor and Assembly of the State of Connecticut, all municipalities in the state are required to "fill up and recruit their several Quotas of the Continental Army ... taking for their Rule the whole Number assigned to them respectively by this Assembly; each Town having Liberty to credit themselves, and deduct therefrom such Numbers as they have already engaged, and Serving in the Continental Army, whose Term shall not expire before the first of March next." The Continental Army was in grim shape in 1780; Washington wrote to Congress at least twice in the spring to complain of a lack of resources and pay for his troops. Here the state of Connecticut digs in to make sure that each township is doing its part, sending the requisite number of troops to the war.