Papers of John Adams, volume 4

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24 July., 24 July 1776 JA Continental Congress, Board of War

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24 July., 24 July 1776 Adams, John Continental Congress, Board of War
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24 July. The congress resolved to take into continental service the South Carolina rangers and prescribed their table of organization and rates of pay and further resolved to take on the same conditions rangers to be raised in Georgia ( JCC , 5:606–607; Note: Additional resolutions immediately following and permitting Col. Henry Knox to raise another battalion of artillery; the exchange of Phillip Skene for James Lovell; and the 257entry into the continental service of a troop of light horse under Capt. John Leary Jr. may have proceeded from the same report).