Nath[aniel] Folsom, [State of New Hampshire] LS to Jonathan Chase, June 26, 1779

State of New Hampshire) Exeter June 26 1779

To Jonathan Chase Esq Colo. of a Regiment of Militia

Pursuant to Notes of the Council and Assembly I am required
to order, you to proceed forthwith to raise the Men required of you to
make up the Continental Battalions agreable to an order of the Committee
of Safety of April last, or in case that cannot be done that the same
be raised by draught or otherwise for one Year—and the Selectmen
are required to be Aiding the Militia Officers in raising said Men

The Court have Voted, that, every Soldier drafted for a Year shall
proceed in the Service or pay a Fine of Fifty Pounds—that every
Soldier enlisted or drafted for one Year and going into the service one
Year shall receive a Bounty from this State of Sixty Pounds, which
Bounty the Selectmen of the respective Towns are requested to
advance and the same shall be allowed out of the State Tax for
the current Year—That every Soldier going into the Continental
Service shall have the depreciation of Money made good according
to the resolve of the General Court—That every Town not
complying with this Act shall be fined at the discretion discretion
of the General Court for every Man they are deficient which fine
shall be added to their State Tax—and that each Town
raising Men for one Year only shall replace the same at the end of the
Year and so from Time to Time until the end of the War—

You are likewise immediately to raise and properly Equip
fit for Service, Eight good able bodied effective Men to serve
for the defence of Rhode Island six Months from the Time they
join the Army–which Men they are to put be under the command
of the Officers appointed by the General Court to take the command
of them; and you are to take care that they march forthwith to the State
of Rhode Island—The Court have Voted each non-commission'd Officer
and Soldier raised as aforesaid shall receive a Bounty of Thirty
Pounds

{Note: Transcription provided by Sarah Caswell Angell Chapter, NSDAR}