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� Wm. Donnison, Adjutant General.
Att. H.Sewall , D.A.Genl [underlined and bold]
General Orders, Boston, April 17, 1790. [?]
The Commander in Chief having taken into consideration the requests of Major general Lithgow (and having had the advice of Council therefrom) has ordered that the Major-general of the eighth Division be authorized to raise within that Division two Troops of Calvary, and in the first Brigade thereof, one Company of Light-infantry, provided that some of the standing regimental Companies already organized, be reduced thereby to a less number of train-band men, than sixty Privates.
By order of the Commander in chief, Wm. Donnison, Adjutant general
Att.. H. Sewall, D.A.Genl [underlined]
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