One page broadside, “At a General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of October, A. D. 1780, order for raising of troups for the militia, 2500 men, per George Washington, will be formed into 5 regiments. Verso has a handwritten order by Colonel Obadiah Johnson (1736-1801), dated June 26, 1780, ordered by General Douglas, thus ordering Captain Joseph Raynoford to provide one sergeant and two privates to be ready to fight being fully equipped…out of the state…whenever needed. An unusual piece being orders written on orders as paper was scarce at that time. Mounted in a double-sided glass frame, giving access to observe the whole document both front and back. Bristol B5063; Evans 16741

Mounted in a plastic holder within a frame. General overall foxing with holes in the paper running along the lettering of the handwritten manuscript, mostly due to acid that was present in the ink at the time it was written. The document has some staining and is worn with some marginal tears and chips. There are also some fold separations with miniscule losses not affecting writing on the broadside portion.