KING GEORGE II. 1683-1760. Levying of Soldiers. An act passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay.... Boston, N.E.: Printed by Samuel Kneeland, by order of His Excellency the governour..., 1758. Printed broadside, 318 x 198 mm. 2 pp. Royal arms engraved at head of title. Old folds, some tearing along folds, chipping at edges. Provenance: from a private New England estate (additional lots, see 169, 170, 210, 211, 295). RARE COLONIAL BROADSIDE EXEMPTING QUAKERS FROM MILITARY SERVICE. "Chap. I. An act in addition to an act made and passed this present year, intitled An act for the speedy levying of soldiers for an intended expedition ...whereas the People called Quakers alledge a Scruple of Conscience against any military service ... [they] shall be and are hereby declared exempt...," and approving payment to hire additional soldiers to supplement the lost numbers, "to be levied in the next Tax Act upon the People called Quakers, in such Manner and Proportion as shall be therein ordered." Passed April 29, 1758. The Quakers were excluded from the militia first in an Act of 1757, but required to submit lists of those who should be exempt, making this further clarification necessary, when they failed to do so. Ford Broadsides 1119.
KING GEORGE II. 1683-1760. Levying of Soldiers. An act passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay.... Boston, N.E.: Printed by Samuel Kneeland, by order of His Excellency the governour..., 1758. Printed broadside, 318 x 198 mm. 2 pp. Royal arms engraved at head of title. Old folds, some tearing along folds, chipping at edges. Provenance: from a private New England estate (additional lots, see 169, 170, 210, 211, 295). RARE COLONIAL BROADSIDE EXEMPTING QUAKERS FROM MILITARY SERVICE. "Chap. I. An act in addition to an act made and passed this present year, intitled An act for the speedy levying of soldiers for an intended expedition ...whereas the People called Quakers alledge a Scruple of Conscience against any military service ... [they] shall be and are hereby declared exempt...," and approving payment to hire additional soldiers to supplement the lost numbers, "to be levied in the next Tax Act upon the People called Quakers, in such Manner and Proportion as shall be therein ordered." Passed April 29, 1758. The Quakers were excluded from the militia first in an Act of 1757, but required to submit lists of those who should be exempt, making this further clarification necessary, when they failed to do so. Ford Broadsides 1119.
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