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    pleting, and equipping the 8 battalions resolved by this convention to
    be raised for the Continental service, agreeable to the resolves of this
    convention."

     RESOLVES OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 27 JUNE, 1776.

       "Resolved, That six companies of riflemen, in addition to the three
    companies now at New York, be raised, and the whole regimented;
    and that a commission be granted to captain Stevenson, to be colonel
    of the said regiment of riflemen, which is to be enlisted for three years,
    unless sooner discharged by Congress; the men to be allowed a bounty
    of ten dollars; and that Moses Rawlins be lieutenant-colonel, and Otho
    Holland Williams, major of the said regiment: That four companies of
    riflemen, for the said regiment, be raised in Virginia, and two in Mary
    land."
       (Rawlings became colonel about 1 January, 1777.)

    RESOLVES OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 9 OCTOBER, 1778.

       "Resolved, That if any of the states in which col. Moses Rawlins
    shall recruit for his regiment shall give to persons enlisting in the same,
    for three years, or during the war, the bounty allowed by the state, in
    addition to the continental bounty, the men so furnished, not being
    inhabitants of any other of the United States, shall be credited to the
    quota of the State in which they shall be enlisted."

    RESOLVES OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 23 JANUARY, 1779.

       "Resolved, That col. Rawlings and such of the officers of his corps
    as shall be appointed by the commander-in-chief, forthwith recruit three
    companies of that corps to the full complement: That the volunteers
    be inlisted for the war, and ordered to repair to Fort Pitt."
       Colonel Moses Rawlings' Rifle Regiment was originally raised in
    Maryland and Virginia as Stephenson's Maryland and Virginia Rifle
    Regiment, and reorganized in 1777 as one of the 16 additional Regi
    ments.