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Broadsides
Continental Congress. The Invitation of the Continental Congress, to Their Brethren Who Are Sons of Liberty and Seamen, to Engage in the Defence of the Liberties of America. [Philadelphia, 1775].
This printed broadside, laying out the terms and benefits of enlistment in the Continental Navy, includes the signatures of those signing on for service on the Continental navy ship Columbus under the command of Abraham Whipple of Rhode Island. The roster includes twenty-one officers and midshipmen, ninety-two seamen, landsmen, craftsmen and gunners, and one “negro boy,” with their dates of enlistment, rank and rate of pay. [2014]
Massachusetts. General Court. A Resolve, for Amending and Explaining a Late Act
of the General Assembly of this State, Intitled “An Act for Providing a Reinforcement to
the American Army” [Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1776].
This broadside calls for the enlistment of “able-bodied Male Persons from sixteen Years of Age and upwards” with the exception of Quakers, ministers of the Gospel and “the President, Professors, Tutors, Librarian, Steward, Butler, and underGraduates of Harvard Colledge, Indians, Negroes, Molattoes....” [2017]
George Washington. Instructions for Soldiers in the Service of the United States, Concerning the Means of Preserving Health. Of Cleanliness. [Fishkill, N.Y.: Samuel Loudon, 1777].
“It is extremely difficult to persuade Soldiers that Cleanliness is absolutely necessary to the Health of an Army,” Washington advised his colonels in command of the regiments. In his general orders on health and hygiene in military camps, he cited Moses as the “wisest general who ever lived,” invoking the “Rules of Cleanliness” laid out in the Bible as the model for the Continental Army. [1992]
Joshua Loring. The Following Return of the Prisoners, Taken at Forts Montgomery and Clinton, Are Published for the Satisfaction of the Public, and Particularly for the Benefit of Their Relations. [New York, 1778].
Joshua Loring was deputy commissary of prisoners for the British Army. He circulated this broadside listing 263 Americans captured at the battles of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton in October 1777, to solicit donations of provisions from the prisoners’ families. [2012]
Thomas Shipley. A Receipt for a Cheap Soup for Six Persons Published for the Use of the Private Soldiers and Their Families, Encamped on Cox-Heath, near Maidstone, 1778. [Maidstone, England, 1778].
A British inventor created and published at his own expense this versatile recipe for a healthful soup, which he circulated to the soldiers stationed at Coxheath, a military training camp set up for the defense of the British homeland. The soup, he promised, could be made for just a penny a serving and will “be a very wholesome and pleasant food, and will serve very well at the Tables of the Rich, as well as the Poor.” [2010]
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