The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

The Resolve for raising 500 Rifle Men, for the Service of the United Colonies, was passed about the 10th of June last, and whether Lord Sandwich will believe it or not, the Orders were not dispatched before that Day, and most of the Express had to ride from 400 Miles to the Persons who were ordered to raise them; the Men, to the amount of 1430, instead of the 500 were raised, completely armed, (most of them with their own Rifles,) and accoutred for the Field with such Expedition as to join the Army at Cambridge, one Company on the 29th Day of July, and Eight more on the 5th and 7th Instant, all of which had marched from 4 to 700 miles. All this was performed in less than two Months, without a Farthing of Money being advanced by the Continental Treasury.