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Commonwealth of Massachusetts General Orders, Headquarters, 24. February, 1803.

The Commander in chief having the advice of council upon a petition of the field officers of the second regiment second brigade & eighth division, thereupon orders, that the town of Waterville be divided into two companies, vir. that all the privates residing on the eastwardly part of said town easterly of a line drawn precisely two miles from the river Kennebec from north to south to form a new company, and that the privates in the westerly part of said town remain and be another company. By order of the Commander in chief.

                                                  Wm. Donnison, Adjt. Genl.
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Division Orders - 8. Division, Augusta, July 25. 1803.

Pursuant to the Gen. Orders of the 7. February last, the captains & subalterns of each of the companies of infantry in the towns of Bath, Georgetown & Woolwich, now composing the 1. regiment in the first brigade of the Division, will assemble at the dwellinghouse of Major Page innholder in Bath, on the 29. day of August next at two o'clock P.M. to elect a Major for said regiment in the room of Major Rogers, who by the last reforme of said regiment is deranged. Cole. McCobb will please to preside & make return of the election.

The captains & subalterns of each of the companies of militia in Topsham, Bowdoinham, Bowdoin, Lisbon, & Littleriver, composing the 5. regiment in the 1. brigade of the Division, will assemble at the dwellinghouse of Major Rogers in Bowdoinham, the 29. day of August next at two o clock P.M. then & there to elect a Lieutenant colonel commandant & two Majors for said regiment. Major Gennett will please to preside at this election & make return.