To All Brave, Healthy, Able Bodied and Well Disposed Young Men, in this Vicinity, Who have any Inclination to Join the Troops now Raisng under General Hand, at Fort Pitt, for the Defence of the Liberties & Independence of the United States against the Hostile Designs of Foreign Enemies
TAKE NOTICE,
that Saturday, July Fourth, at Pricketts Fort, Monongalia County, at the confluence of the Monongahela River & Pricketts Creek, attendance will be given by Captain Springer of the Monongalia County militia, commanded by Colonel Zacquill Morgan, for purpose of receiving the enrollment of such youth of spirit, as may be willing to enter into this HONOURABLE service.
The ENCOURAGEMENT at this time, to enlist, is truly liberal & generous, namely, a bounty of TWELVE dollars a year in GOLD & SILVER money on account of pay, the whole of which the soldier may lay up for himself & friends, as all articles proper for his subsistence & comfort are provided by law, without any expence to him.
Those who may favour this recruiting party with their attendance as above, will have an opportunity of hearing & seeing, in a more particular manner, the great advantages which these brave men will have, who shall embrace this opportunity of spending a few happy years in viewing the different parts of this beautiful continent, in the honourable & truly respectable character of a soldier, after which, he may, if he pleases, return home to his friends, with his pockets FULL of money & his head COVERED with laurels.
GOD SAVE THE UNITED STATES
