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Captain
Coren's Independent Coy. of Artillery
Taken from "Hazard's" Edition of the Pa. Archives -- Volume
V, pg. 209-210
Pennsylvania Archives 1777
Recruiting Instructions for Capt. Issac Coren,
Director of the Laboratory for the United States
You
are hereby authorized to enlist in any of the United States of America,
all such able body men as are willing to enter into the service
and pay of the states, being under the character of a soldier being
within the descriptions and upon directions hereafter annexed. Viz:
first, you are not to enlist none but freemen above the age of seventeen,
and under fifty, or sufficient stature and ability of body to discharge
all the offices of a private soldier, to be free of lameness, or
other bodily infirmities that may render them incapable of supporting
the fatigues of camp. Secondly, you are not to enlist any deserter
from the army of the King of Great Britain, or any person of disaffected
or suspicious principles, with regard to the American cause. Thirdly,
you are to enlist to serve, during present war with Great Britain
or, for three years, unless sooner discharged by proper authority.
Fourthly, every solder enlisted as soon as may be, to be engaged
before some other officer, judge advocate, or some of his deputies,
agreeable to the section of the articles of war. Every person so
engaged to be mustered before the Muster Master General, or some
of his deputies, if they are within a reasonable distance, if not,
before some Major General, Brigadier Col., commanding a brigade:
a surgeon to be present; all the charge and expenses for every soldier
enlisted, that may not pass muster for defects pointed out in these
instructions, shall be paid by the officer that engaged them: You
are hearby authorized and employed to give as a reward and promise
in behalf of the public service, said engagement, to every noncommissioned
officer and soldier that shall enlist over and above the pay of
the Continental Artillery, and provision already allowed, that they
shall receive a bounty of twenty dollars and a suit of clothes,
the clothes be given annually as long as they continue in the service,
and at the end of three years, or the end of the war, every private
or noncommissioned officer that completes his service agreeable
to his engagement, shall be entitled to one hundred acres of land.
Those that die or are killed in the service, their legal representatives
are to the entitled to the same as a further encouragement. You
are hereby authorized to promise that all that are unfortunately
maimed in the service and rendered in the service incapable of getting
support, shall receive half pay during their natural life, agreeable
to the resolve of congress in that case made and provided, and as
a further encouragement to soldier to be enlisted as laboratoryman,
you may promise the privates on dollar per month over and above
the provision already made, and to the sergeants two dollars a month,
and to the bombardiers and corporals one dollar and a half a month,
the above additional pay is only to continue while they are employed
in the laboratory.
Benja.
Flower, Coms'ry M.M.
Philadelphia, 1 Feb. 1777
Agreeable to the instructions from His Excellency Gen. Washington
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