be formed into two Regiments of ten Companies each, and each Company consist of seventy non-commissioned Officers and Privates, besides commissioned Officers, with the same number of Field, Commissioned, and Staff Officers, as in the Regiments already raised and assembled for the defence of this Colony, by the Act aforesaid; and that the said Troops, both Officers and Soldiers, shall receive the same Bounty, Pay, allowance for Arms, Blankets, Knapsacks, Accoutrements, and Provisions; be furnished with the same quantity of Ammunition, and in every respect be under the same regulations as in and by said Act is already provided and directed for the Troops assembled for the defence of this Colony.

This Assembly do appoint the persons hereafter named to the respective offices hereinafter mentioned, to take command of the inhabitants to be enlisted for the special defence and safety of this Colony, in addition to the six Regiments heretofore raised for the same purpose, to lead and conduct them as the General Assembly shall order; and his Honour the Governour is desired, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to give Commissions, according to the form provided and ordered, for each respective Officer, according to his office and rank, and Warrants to such as are on the Staff, viz:

Seventh Regiment.

First Company.—This Assembly do appoint Charles Webb, Esquire, Colonel of the Seventh Regiment, and Captain; Ebenezer Hill, Captain-Lieutenant; Stephen Bell, Jun., Second Lieutenant; Sylvanus Mead, Ensign.

Second Company.—Street Hall, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventh Regiment, and Captain; William Hull, First Lieutenant; Stephen Potter, Second Lieutenant; Titus Moss, Ensign.

Third Company.—Jonathan Lattimer, Jun., Esq., Major and Captain; Nathan Hale, First Lieutenant; John Belsher, Second Lieutenant; Joseph Hilliard, Ensign.

Fourth Company.—Joseph Hoit, Captain; Joseph Alden Wright, First Lieutenant; Gamaliel Northrup, Junior, Second Lieutenant; John Odell, Ensign.

Fifth Company.—Nathaniel Tuttlc, Captain; John Watkins, First Lieutenant; Samuel Gibbs, Second Lieutenant; Samuel Hurlburt, Ensign.

Sixth Company.—Edward Shipman, Captain; Aaron Stevens, First Lieutenant; Lemuel Nichols, Second Lieutenant; John Shumway, Ensign.

Seventh Company.—Isaac Bostwick, Captain; Jesse Kimball, First Lieutenant; Peter Mills, Second Lieutenant; Daniel Brinsmaid, Ensign.

Eighth Company.— William Gaylord Hubbell, Captain; John Trowbridge, First Lieutenant; Jesse Cook, Second Lieutenant; David Lilly, Ensign.

Ninth Company.—Peter Perrit, Captain; John Yates, First Lieutenant; Henry Firman, Second Lieutenant; Charles Pond, Ensign.

Tenth Company.—Eli Leavenworth, Captain; William Rossiter, First Lieutenant; Peter Johnson, Second Lieutenant; Robert Liwis, Ensign.

Reverend Samuel Bird, Chaplain of the Seventh Regiment.

Francis Forgue, Surgeon; Ebenezer Beardslee, Isaac Swift, Surgeon’s Mates of the Seventh Regiment.

Eighth Regiment.

First Company.—Jedediah Huntington, Esq., Colonel of the Eighth Regiment, and Captain; Asa Kingsbury, Captain Lieutenant; Jonathan Brewster, Second Lieutenant; Phineas L. Tracy, Ensign.

Second Company.—John Douglass, Esquire, Lieutenant-Colonel and Captain; Elezur Hubbard, First Lieutenant; Moses Campbell, Second Lieutenant; Nathaniel Bingham, Ensign.

Third Company.—Joel Clark, Esq., Major and Captain; Abiel Pease, First Lieutenant; Epaphras Andrus, Second Lieutenant; Abraham Wright, Ensign.

Fourth Company.—Elihu Humphrey, Captain; Ebenezer F. Bissell, First Lieutenant; Timothy Cossett, Second Lieutenant; Jonathan Filley, Ensign.

Fifth Company.— Charles Ellsworth, Jr., Captain; Moses Hall, First Lieutenant; Samuel Bancroft, Second Lieutenant; Barzillai Markham, Ensign.

Sixth Company.— Abijah Rowley, Captain; Zebediah Farnum, First Lieutenant; Epaphras Bull, Second Lieutenant; Joseph Tucker, Ensign.

Seventh Company.—Daniel Lyon, Captain; Elijah Sharp, First Lieutenant; Joseph Burgess, Second Lieutenant; John Sumner, Ensign.

Eighth Company.—Joseph Jewett, Captain; Jabez Fitch, Jun., First Lieutenant; Nathaniel Gove, Second Lieutenant; Elisha Leffingwell, Ensign.

Ninth Company.— Abraham Tyler, Captain; Timothy Percival, First Lieutenant; Solomon Orcut, Second Lieutenant; Aaron Hale, Ensign.

Tenth Company.—John Ripley, Captain; Thomas Tyrrel, First Lieutenant; Joel Chamberlin, Second Lieutenant; John Vaughan, Ensign.

Reverend John Ellis, Chaplain of the Eighth Regiment.

Philip Turner, Surgeon; Albigens Waldo, Silas Holmes, Surgeon’s Mates of the Eighth Regiment.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Commissions and Warrants for the Officers in the Troops now to be raised for the defence of this Colony, be of the same tenour with those given to the officers already in the service, and shall bear date the sixth day of July instant.

And it is further Resolved, That in case any of the Officers now appointed by this Assembly shall decline the service, his Honour the Governour be, and he is hereby directed and empowered to supply such vacancies.

Resolved by this Assembly, That there be provided forty-eight Markee or Officers‘ Tents, and two hundred and thirty-three Tents for Private Soldiers; two hundred and eighty-one Iron Pots, that will contain about ten quarts each, or Tin Kettles; fourteen Brass Kettles, that will contain from eight to twelve gallons each, for the use of each Regiment; six hundred Wooden Bowls, three Frying Pans for the use of each Company, fourteen hundred quart Canteens, twenty Drums and forty Fifes, all for the use of the Troops; one Standard for each Regiment, distinguished by their colour as follows, viz: for the Seventh, Blue; For the Eighth, Orange; a Medicine Chest and Apparatus, to the value of thirty Pounds, under the direction of the respective Surgeons, and that whatever of Medicine or Apparatus shall be left or not used, be returned for the use of the Colony; about fifteen Books in quarto, consisting of one quire of paper, and covered with cartridge paper; half a ream of Writing Paper; also three reams of Paper for forming Cartridges, and also one Cart or Wagon for each Company.

And it is further Resolved by this Assembly, That the allowance of Provisions for said Troops be as the allowance already made to the Troops ordered to be raised by this Assembly in April last, and that they be provided with Arms and Ammunition, in the same manner and proportion as the Troops already raised.

An Act for supplying the Troops, ordered to be raised for the special defence and safety of this Colony, with necessary Fire-Arms.

Be it enacted by the Governour, Council, and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by authority of the same, That each inhabitant who shall enlist into the Seventh and Eighth Regiments, now to be raised for the defence of this Colony, shall be furnished with good and sufficient Fire-Arms; that each enlisted inhabitant that shall provide Arms for himself, well fixed with a good Bayonet and Cartouch Box, shall be paid a premium of ten shillings; and in case such Arms are lost by inevitable casualty, such inhabitant, providing himself as aforesaid, shall be allowed and paid the just value of said Arms and Implements so lost, deducting only said sum of ten shillings allowed as aforesaid, said premium of ten shillings to be paid as soon as such inhabitants shall provide such Arms as aforesaid; and in case any householder or other person shall voluntarily furnish any enlisted inhabitant, not able to furnish Arms for himself, with a good Gun, well fixed with a Bayonet and Cartouch Box, he shall have and receive a premium of ten shillings, and in case of loss shall receive the value thereof, deducting said ten shillings as aforesaid; that where the aforesaid provision fails, sufficient Arms shall be purchased to supply said inhabitants that shall enlist as a aforesaid by the Selectmen of that Town in which they dwell, or either of them, which Selectmen shall deliver