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Broadside of Revolutionary War period: [Enlistment authoriz. Watertown, Mass.] – Antique Print

Broadside of Revolutionary War period: [Enlistment authoriz. Watertown, Mass.] — historic print
Broadside of Revolutionary War period: [Enlistment authoriz. Watertown, Mass.]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A printed broadside dated January 4, 1776, from Watertown, Massachusetts, it is an official notice authorizing enlistment, a form of paper that circulated to call men into service during the early months of the war. In winter 1776 the Massachusetts provincial government was active in Watertown, and the colonial army was besieging British-held Boston nearby. Notices like this were posted in towns and taverns to recruit soldiers and to set the terms of service. Such single-sheet printings are rare survivors, and they show how the young war was organized on paper as well as on the field.

Medium1 print.
Notes1776 January 4.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,338 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129713

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