In the County of Middlesex: Abishai Brown, Captain; Elijah Danforth, First Lieutenant; Thomas Richardson, Second Lieutenant.

In the County of Bristol: Zebedee Reading, Captain; Isaac Fisher, First Lieutenant; Abel Babbit, Second Lieutenant.

In the County of Worcester: Jonathan Cavil, Captain; David Bouty, First Lieutenant; Thomas Davidson, Second Lieutenant. Nathaniel White, Captain; Ebenezer Sanderson, First Lieutenant; William Warner, Second Lieutenant.

In the County of Hampshire: Josiah Smith, Captain; Richard Talley, First Lieutenant; Noah Warren, Second Lieutenant.

In the Counties of Plymouth and Barnstable: Nathaniel Window, Captain; Joseph Griffith, First Lieutenant; John Gill, Second Lieutenant.

Whereas it is necessary for the common safety that the Ordnance and Stores be removed according to the directions of his Excellency General Washington: And whereas it has been made to appear to this Court that Teams necessary to transport the same cannot be procured in the ordinary way:

Therefore Resolved, That the Selectmen of the several Towns in this Colony be, and they hereby are, ordered to give all possible aid and assistance to Colonel Henry Knox, of the train of Artillery, in removing and conveying said Ordnance and Stores through this Colony, on their way to New-York; and in case the inhabitants of said Colony refuse to supply Teams or other necessary means of conveyance, said Selectmen, or any two of them, in any town in this Colony, are empowered and directed to impress in said town, so many Teams as are necessary for the purposes aforesaid, said Knox paying a reasonable price for the same.

Whereas it is of the greatest importance not only to the inhabitants of Boston, but of this whole Colony, that the Town and Harbour of said Boston should be effectually fortified and secured against any attacks from the enemy; and as the Continental Forces left and stationed in and about said town are not sufficient, in the judgment of this Court, with the variety of other important duties assigned them, to throw up and defend all those works which sound policy would dictate for the purpose aforesaid:

It is therefore Resolved, That there be immediately raised eight Companies, consisting of one Captain, two Lieutenants, four Sergeants, four Corporals, one Drummer, one Fifer, and seventy-seven Privates; which Companies shall constitute one Regiment, to be under the field command of one Colonel, one Lieutenant-Colonel, and one Major, Field-Officers, Captains, and Subalterns; all of which shall be appointed by this Court and commissionated by the Council; the Non-Commissioned Officers shall be chosen by their respective Companies, and each Officer and Private Soldier shall be holden to serve from the day of their engaging or inlisting in the said service until the 1st day of December next, unless the service should admit of their discharge sooner. And the Officers of the several Regiments and Companies of Militia in the respective Counties in this Colony are hereby directed, without fail, to afford their utmost assistance in the raising of the said Companies with the greatest despatch, as they regard the interest of their country, and the approbation of this Court.

And it is Resolved, That there be allowed and paid to each of the Officers and Soldiers, as wages for every calendar month during their continuance in the said service, the following sums respectively, viz:

And the time of service of each Non-Commissioned Officer and Soldier shall be computed from the fourth day next preceding their marching from home to the time of their discharge, and allowing for return home; that is to say, at the rate of one day for every twenty miles travel; also there shall be allowed one penny per mile to each man to compensate his expenses in his travel to the place of rendezvous, and at the same rate to bear his expenses in his return home, his travelling expense to the Camp to be paid by himself, and each man to be compensated at the rate abovesaid upon his arrival at the Camp.

And it is further Resolved, That each Non-Commissioned Officer and Private Soldier shall be equipped and provided with a good effective Fire-arm and Bayonet, a Cartridge Box, Knapsack, and Blanket; and no Non-Commissioned Officer and Private Soldier shall be allowed to pass muster without he is equipped and provided.

And it is further Resolved, That said Regiment shall be allowed and supplied with the following subsistence, viz: One pound of bread per day; half pound of beef and half pound of pork, and if pork cannot be had, one and one-fourth pound of beef, and one day in seven they shall have one and one-fourth pound of salt fish instead of one day’s allowance of meat per clay, if to be had; one pint of milk, or if milk cannot be had, one gill of rice, per day; one quart of spruce or malt beer, or one pint of cider, per day, if to be had; one gill of peas or beans, or other sauce equivalent, per day; six ounces of butter per week; one pound of good common soap for six men per week; half pint of vinegar per week per man if it can be had.

And there shall be appointed by this Court for said Regiment, one Adjutant, one Chaplain, one Commissary, one Quartermaster, one Surgeon, and one Surgeon’s Mate, to be upon the following establishment of pay by the calendar months, viz:

And the Commissary-General is hereby directed, as soon as a Commissary is chosen for the above purpose, to deliver to him a sufficient number of Tents, utensils to cook in, and Intrenching Tools for said Regiment.

Resolved, That the Committee appointed by this Court to purchase Wood and Hay for the Continental Army, be directed to apply to the Quartermaster-General of the Continental Forces, or his Deputy, or under Quartermaster, for a settlement of their Accounts, and for the whole amount of the several sums due to this Colony for Wood and Hay, which the said Committee have purchased and sent to the said Army, and for such sum or sums as are due to them for their services and expenses. And the said Committee are further directed, upon their receiving of the said Quarter-master such sums which are due as aforesaid, to make report thereof to this House, and likewise to pay back the Moneys they received out of the Colony Treasury for the aforesaid purpose of purchasing said articles, to Henry Gardner, Esq., Receiver-General, and take his receipt therefor.

Adjourned to nine o’clock, to-morrow morning.

Friday, April 12, 1776.

Present in Council: Honourable James Otis, Benjamin Greenleaf, Walter Spooner, Caleb Cushing, Joseph Gerrish, John Whetcomb, Jedediah Foster, Eldad Taylor, Benjamin Lincoln, Michael Farley, Joseph Palmer, Samuel Holten, Jabez Fisher, Moses Gill, Benjamin White, Esquire.

Resolved, That the form of the Beating Orders and Inlistment for raising one Regiment, consisting of seven hundred and twenty-eight men, into this Colony service, to defend and secure the Town and Harbour of Boston, on the establishment made by this Court from the 9th of this instant, April, until the 1st day of December next, be as follows, viz:

“To. . . . . . . . . .

“You are hereby empowered immediately to inlist a Company, to consist of eighty-eight able-bodied and effective men, including non-commissioned officers and privates, as soldiers in the service of this Colony, to defend and secure the Town and Harbour of Boston, (the non-commissioned officers to be raised by their respective Companies,) and cause them to pass muster as soon as possible.

“. . . . . day of . . . . 1776. ”

“We, the subscribers, do hereby severally inlist ourselves into the service of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, to serve in a Company whereof. . . . . . . . . is Captain, until the 1st day of December next, unless the service should admit of our discharge sooner; and each of us do engage to furnish and carry with us into the service, a good effective