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associated to form a special Company in the Town of Wins- low and its vicinity, to assemble at such time and place as he shall appoint, for the purpose of electing a Captain and two Lieutenants for said Company; which Company being now established, is to be denominated & considered the Winslow Artillery of the second Brigade. Colonel Lithgow will please to preside at the Election, & make return of the persons elected, to the Brigadier-General.

                           By order of B. Gen. Sewall,
                                                  Amos Stoddard, B. Major.
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    General Orders, Head Quarters, Boston, August 27. 1796.
          By the new arrangement & organization of the 8. 

Division, the numerical order of several Regiments being changed, the present denominations of some of them are different from those expressed in the Commissions of the Captains and Subalterns issued prior to such new ar- rangement, although the powers, authority, local bounds and jurisdiction of those Officers actually remain the same: