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  • At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the English colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, in New-England, in America; : begun in consequence of warrants issued by His Honor the governor, and holden at Newport, in the said colony, on Wednesday the tenth of August, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven, and in the thirty-first year of the reign of His Most Sacred Majesty George the Second, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, and so forth.: An Act for raising one sixth part of the Militia of this Colony, to proceed immediately to Albany, to join the forces which have marched to oppose the French near Lake George.
Call No:
  • G1157
  • Broadsides 1757 No.3
Summary note:
  • The Militia is called out. Representative of the extensive legal printing which was an important part of the output of the Colonial press is this act calling up the militia to do battle against the French at Lake George.
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Author:
Imprint Place:
  • [Newport :
Publisher/Printer:
  • Printed by James Franklin,
Imprint Date:
  • 1757]
Physical Description:
  • 4 p.
  • 31 cm.
Bibliographic References:
  • Alden, J.E. Rhode Island,
  • Shipton & Mooney Bristol Reilly, E., Dict. of Col. Am. Printers' Ornaments
  • 188
  • 40934 B1915 504, 586, 587
Notes:
  • Act of the August, 1757 session.
  • Headband of type ornaments. Only know copy held by Rhode Island Histoical Society. Newsbank uses RIHS copy.
  • The Militia is called out. Representative of the extensive legal printing which was an important part of the output of the Colonial press is this act calling up the militia to do battle against the French at Lake George.
  • Preservation and electronic cataloging for this broadside was made possible by a generous grant from the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars, the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the General Society of Colonial Wars.
Location:
  • RHI9
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