In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, February 14, 1775. : Whereas it appears necessary for the defence of the lives, liberties, and properties, of the inhabitants of this province, that this Congress ... should be made fully acquainted with the number and military equipments o the militia, and Minute Men ... Resolved, that ... the commanding officers of each regiment ... take an exact state of their numbers, and equipment .

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