To the military officers, select-men, and committee of correspondence in the town of [blank] : Gentlemen, You are hereby most earnestly requested to procure the execution of the subsequent resolve with the greatest ... expedition ... Provincial Congress, Watertown, July 12, 1775. Whereas a very speedy augmentation of the army is indispensably necessary ... Resolved, that ... the commanding officer of every company ... immediately raise ... [blank] able bodied men .

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