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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Minutes of the United States Board of War [Extract]
United States. Continental Congress. Board of War and Ordnance
August 09, 1777
Volume 11, Pages 747-748

[Report of Board of War, No. 147. Vol I. p. 303.]

At a Board of War 9th August 1777.

Agreed to Report to Congress.

That such Troopers of the North Carolina Light Horse under the command of Captain Cosmo Medici & Capt Martin Phifer as shall enlist for three years or during the war shall be furnished

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with Horses & be properly accoutred and that those men who will not so enlist return home to North Carolina under proper Officers

Extract from the Minutes

RICHARD PETERS
Secy