Recruiting instructions for the 2nd Regiment of New Jersey
1780
MSS L2014F83
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Title
Recruiting instructions for the 2nd Regiment of New Jersey
Published
[S.l.] 1780
Description
[3] p. ; 38 cm.
Call Number
MSS L2014F83
Note
"This twenty third day of March 1780. Signed Stirling Major Genl." at end.
Transcript in an unidentified hand of an order from Lord Stirling.
In response to New Jersey's call for 400 new troops "to continue in said service during the present war with Great Britain," Stirling lays out the requirements for new recruits, who should be "not only able bodied and effective, but well limbed, of proper height for a soldier, not upwards of forty nor under eighteen years of age …clear of rupture unsoundness any defect or habitual disease ... And you are by no means to enlist any deseter from the British army ..."
"From Mrs. Lewis Dunham" on final blank page.
Stirling sent another copy of this order to General Washington for approval. In his cover letter to Washington, he notes that he drew up 12 copies of these instructions to Colonel Francis Barber, who was to fill in the blanks and relay them to the various recruiting parties.
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Transcript in an unidentified hand of an order from Lord Stirling.
In response to New Jersey's call for 400 new troops "to continue in said service during the present war with Great Britain," Stirling lays out the requirements for new recruits, who should be "not only able bodied and effective, but well limbed, of proper height for a soldier, not upwards of forty nor under eighteen years of age …clear of rupture unsoundness any defect or habitual disease ... And you are by no means to enlist any deseter from the British army ..."
"From Mrs. Lewis Dunham" on final blank page.
Stirling sent another copy of this order to General Washington for approval. In his cover letter to Washington, he notes that he drew up 12 copies of these instructions to Colonel Francis Barber, who was to fill in the blanks and relay them to the various recruiting parties.
Digitized image available.
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