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Allowed the troops to take private firearms in circumstances where arms are needed for the defense of the colony. Everyone...

CT
1775

1775 — Connecticut — Militia Arms Inspections

2 Arthur Vollmer, Military Obligation: The American Tradition: A Compilation of the Enactments of Compulsion from the Earliest Settlements of the Original Thirteen Colonies in 1607 Through the Articles of Confederation 1789, Part 2 201-02

Militiamen were obliged to keep arms in good order and have them reviewed/inspected annually by designated officers.

CT
1775

Required most males ages 16 to 60 to join the militia and arm themselves. The clerk of eah company was...

MA
1775

1775 — Connecticut — Gunpowder Manufacturing

15 Charles J. Hoadly, The Public Records Of The Colony Of Connecticut 190-192 (1890)

This law lists multiple regulations on founding era gunpowder manufacture.

CT
1775