Thomas Robeson Recruitment Orders

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March 16: 1779  

Agreable to an Express from the Governor Recd this Day Ordering a General Muster To raise Thirty Six Men & one Capt from this County as Volinters or Draft for to March to the Aid of South Carolina & Georgia, I therefore Notice & warn, all the Men belonging to the reigment of Bladen Liable to bear arms to appear at Elizabeth Town on the 29 Day of this Instant March by Twelve Ten O Clock to a General Muster with their Arms & Accutrement agrable to Law, where I am Authorised to offer a bounty of three hundred Dollars to such able bodyed men as will enter for three Months after Leaving this State & one Dollar pr Day & a Gill of Spirits & rashens, a Sergent 12 a Corporal Drummer & Fifer 10 pr Day. Thos. Robeson Colo & also I request that all the Nine Months men that has Not yet gone or been Discharged to appear in order to March, & also all the Last Drafts that has Not been Discharged by the General or found an able bodied man in his [room?] to appear & march, otherwise to be sent under Gard, & to apprehend all Deserters that they serve their time, & all on furlow to march Likewise.   

To Capt Peter Robeson