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Washington’s 1775 recruitment order cited in World Almanac note
General Washington issued a July 9 1775 order to Continental Army recruiters forbidding enlistment of any deserter from the ministerial army a stroller or vagabond or a person suspected of being an enemy to liberty The World Almanac records that after Lord Dunmore’s proclamation offering freedom to slaves who joined the King's Army Washington allowed the enlistment of free Negroes
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