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Washington Papers Consolidated Index | R | Recruiting
Orders, 17 October 1755 [Colonial Series 2:122]+
Orders, 29 October 1755 [Colonial Series 2:149]+
Memorandum respecting the Militia, 1–2 May 1756 [Colonial Series 3:70]+
To Robert Stewart, 3 May 1756 [Colonial Series 3:81]+
To Robert Stewart, 10 May 1756 [Colonial Series 3:113]+
To Alexander Boyd, 18 May 1756 [Colonial Series 3:155]
Orders, 30–31 May 1756 [Colonial Series 3:184]+
To Robert Stewart, 2 June 1756 [Colonial Series 3:192]
To Thomas Waggener, 13 July 1756 [Colonial Series 3:265]+
To Peter Hog, 21 July 1756 [Colonial Series 3:271]
To Peter Hog, 21 July 1756 [Colonial Series 3:272]
To Robert Dinwiddie, 4 August 1756 [Colonial Series 3:313]
To John Robinson, 5 August 1756 [Colonial Series 3:325]
From Benjamin Harrison, 21–24 July 1775 [Revolutionary War Series 1:145]
From John Hancock, 10 May 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 4:254]
To Brigadier General George Clinton, 19 January 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 8:102]+
From Brigadier General James Mitchell Varnum, 13 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:155]
To Brigadier General George Clinton, 20 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:217]
From Major General William Heath, 22 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:239]+
From Brigadier General William Smallwood, 24 April 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:263]+
To John Hancock, 12 May 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:395]
From Major General Israel Putnam, 13 June 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 10:33]+
To Jonathan Trumbull, Sr., 17 July 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 10:315]+
General Orders, 13 October 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 11:497]+
– abuses [4 references]
– abuses and disputes [24 references]
– accounts [4 references]
– accounts for [1 reference]
– age limitations [1 reference]
– allowance for [1 reference]
– among militia [2 references]
– among militia and minutemen [11 references]
– among prisoners [6 references]
– and act of assembly [1 reference]
– and Congress [7 references]
– and Maryland troops [2 references]
– and officers [20 references + 1 subentry]
– and reenlistment [1 reference]
– and taking Maryland troops into Virginia pay [2 references]
– assistance of New England governments [5 references]
– at elections and public meetings [1 reference]
– bounties and advanced pay [42 references]
– British efforts [5 references]
– British recruiting [11 references]
– British recruiting efforts [5 references]
– by act of assembly [1 reference]
– charges [1 reference]
– clothing for recruits [4 references]
– completion of regiments urged [1 reference]
– conflicting enlistments [2 references]
– Congress's resolutions [3 references]
– conscription [2 references]
– Continental bounty [2 references]
– Continental procedures [11 references]
– council of war on [1 reference]
– courts of inquiry on [4 references]
– criticism of [5 references]
– criticism of officers engaged in [3 references]
– deficiencies [35 references]
– delays and obstructions [21 references]
– delays in [2 references]
– desertion of recruits [1 reference]
– deterrents and hindrances to [36 references]
– difficulties and delays [12 references]
– difficulties of [19 references]
– difficulty of [2 references]
– difficulty of obtaining men [6 references]
– discontinued [1 reference]
– double enlistments [6 references]
– drafts [4 references]
– ease of [1 reference]
– enlisting orders for militia [1 reference]
– enlistment terms and inducements [93 references]
– expenditures for [24 references]
– expenses of [4 references]
– failure of [2 references]
– favorable prospects [10 references]
– fees for [4 references]
– for American fleet [2 references]
– for British service [19 references]
– for cavalry [2 references]
– for Continental navy [2 references]
– for invalid corps [1 reference]
– for provost corps [2 references]
– for Royal American Regiment [4 references]
– for scouts [2 references]
– forwarding of recruits [2 references]
– from flying camp [4 references]
– funds for [10 references]
– furloughs for [5 references]
– general assembly approves [1 reference]
– governor's council and recruiting accounts [1 reference]
– GW's views on [6 references]
– GW uses own funds for [2 references]
– halted [1 reference]
– illegal acts in [2 references]
– impact of site of winter quarters on [14 references]
– impact of winter campaign on [3 references]
– improprieties [3 references]
– in 1755 [1 reference]
– inability to pay bounty [1 reference]
– in Canada [2 references]
– in colonies [8 subentries]
– in Connecticut [6 references]
– in Maryland [2 references]
– in Pennsylvania [1 reference]
– in Rhode Island [2 references]
– in South Carolina [1 reference]
– in southern colonies [3 references]
– in states [4 references + 13 subentries]
– instructions and regulations for [6 references]
– instructions on [44 references]
– instructions regarding [42 references]
– in Virginia [2 references]
– Jonathan Trumbull, Sr.'s views on [1 reference]
– lack of money for [1 reference]
– laws regarding [16 references]
– length of enlistments [10 references]
– malfeasance in [10 references]
– money for [22 references]
– Nathanael Greene's views on [1 reference]
– need for [1 reference]
– of additional Continental regiments [8 references]
– of artificers [2 references]
– of artillerymen [5 references]
– of British and Loyalist forces [11 references]
– of British forces [12 references]
– of Continental artillery regiment [2 references]
– of Continental light horse [6 references]
– of Continental troops [1 reference]
– of deserters and prisoners [2 references]
– of felons [1 reference]
– officers and county lieutenants [1 reference]
– officers appointed for [1 reference]
– of flying camp [1 reference]
– of French-Canadians [1 reference]
– of Georgia troops [1 reference]
– of German Americans [2 references]
– of German-Americans [1 reference]
– of Germans [1 reference]
– of Hessians [2 references]
– of Indians [16 references]
– of light horse [3 references]
– of Loyalist forces [4 references]
– of Loyalist prisoners [2 references]
– of marines [1 reference]
– of Massachusetts troops [1 reference]
– of militia [2 references]
– of militia levies [9 references]
– of prisoners [2 references]
– of rangers [4 references]
– of rangers for Virginia Regiment [1 reference]
– of riflemen [8 references]
– of scouts [4 references]
– of seamen [21 references]
– of servants [4 references]
– of South Carolina troops [1 reference]
– of teamsters [1 reference]
– of Virginia soldiers by South Carolina [1 reference]
– of Virginia troops [12 references]
– of wagoners [1 reference]
– orders and warrants for [7 references]
– popular “Country Gentlemen” used for [1 reference]
– procedures for [1 reference]
– prospects of [1 reference]
– provisions for recruits [1 reference]
– rangers [1 reference]
– recruiting officers [59 references + 2 subentries]
– recruits ordered to camp [4 references]
– reenlistment efforts [33 references]
– regulations [3 references]
– rendezvous for recruits [7 references]
– rendezvous locations [7 references]
– rendezvous stations for [1 reference]
– reported in returns [2 references]
– reports on [7 references]
– riflemen [4 references]
– role of officers [21 references]
– rolls and returns [1 reference]
– state quotas [5 references]
– substitutes [9 references]
– success of [14 references]
– terms and inducements [98 references]
– unsuccessful efforts [2 references]
– urgency of [14 references]
See also Additional Continental Regiments
See also British Army: recruiting
See also Continental Army: recruiting
See also Virginia military forces
See also Virginia Regiment: enlisting of servants [link unavailable]