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Delaware

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    1778 Del. Acts, Mar. Adjourned Sess. 3-5
    (1778)
    Included "each and every able-bodied, effective, Male white Person between the Ages of Eighteen and Fifty." Militiamen had to provide their own "Musket or Firelock with a Bayonet," plus the cartridge box, cartridges, priming wire, brush, and six flints. For 18-to-20-year-olds who could not afford the mandatory arms, the parents had to provide them, if the parents could afford them.
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    1785 Del. Acts, May Adjourned Sess. 11-13
    (1785)
    Each white male 18-50 whose taxes were at least twenty shillings a year had to provide equipment " at his own expence." As for apprentices and persons over 18 and under 21, their parent or guardian would provide the arms" if the militiaman" s estate were at least eighty pounds, or if the parent paid " six pounds annually towards the public taxes." Arms were " a musket or firelock, with a bayonet," a cartridge box with twenty-three cartridges, " a priming wire, a brush and six flints, all in good order." Fines for neglect were to be paid by militiamen " of full age or by the parent or guardian of such as are under twenty-one years." The guardian could charge his ward for the expense when the time came for " settling the accounts of his guardianship."
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    George H. Ryden, Delaware - The First State in the Union 117 (1938)
    (1741)
    Required males from 17 to 50 years to enlist. Besides that, everyone else who was living self-sufficiently (" every Freeholder and taxable Person" ) had to have the same arms as militiamen.
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    1 Del. Laws 175-76 (1797)
    (1740)
    Required " all the inhabitants and freemen" aged fifteen to sixty-three to " provide and keep . . . a well-fixed firelock or musket," plus ammunition supplies and cleaning tools.
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    George H. Ryden, Delaware - The First State in the Union 103-04 (1938)
    (1671)
    Required " That every Person that can beare Arms from 16 to 60 years of Age, bee allways provided with a convenient proportion of Powder & Bullett fit for Service, and their mutual Defence."
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    2 Del. Laws 1136-37 (1797)
    (1793)
    Chapter 36-An Act for Establishing the Militia in this State, § 4: Required all citizens enrolled in the militia to arm themselves, within six months, with a good musket or firelock, a bayonet, belt, two spare flints, a knapsack, a pouch, and a box to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges and gunpowder suited to the bore of his gun, or twenty cartridges and a quarter-pound of gunpowder.
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    1782 Del. Acts, Jan. Adjourned Sess. 1, 3
    (1782)
    An Act for Establishing a Militia Within this State, § 6: Required every person aged eighteen to fifty to provide a musket or firelock with a bayonet, a cartouch box with twenty-three cartridges, priming wire, a brush, and six flints all in good order. Also required providing the same from parents who are tax rated at eighteen pounds, or apprentices. Violators fined at twenty-shillings for ever two months neglect or default.
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    Laws of the Government of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex Upon Delaware 171 (1741)
    (1740)
    "That every Freeholder and taxable Person residing in this Government (except such as are hereafter excepted) shall, on or before the First Day of March next, provide himself with the following Arms and Ammunition: One well fixed Musket or Firelock, one Cartouch-Box, with Twelve Charges of Gun-Powder and Ball therein, and Three good Flints, to be approved of by the Commanding Officer of the respective Company to which he belongs, and shall be obliged to keep such Arms and Ammunition by him, during the Continuance of this Act...."