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This top community organizes Firearms Research Center holdings by jurisdiction. It provides separate collections for U.S. states, territories, the District of Columbia, and the federal jurisdiction, spanning the territorial period to the present.

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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.Virginia [Colony]Category: search.filters.subject.ARMED FORCES

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    1 William Waller Hening, Stat. at Large: Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 292 (1809)
    (1645)
    "all negro men and women, and all other men from the age of 16 to 60" could be drafted to carry on war against the Indians
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    1 William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 292 (1809)
    (1645)
    "all negro men and women, and all other men from the age of 16 to 60" could be drafted to carry on war against the Indians
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    9 William Waller Hening, Stat. at Large; Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 281-82 (1821)
    (1777)
    Act of May 5, 1777, ch. 3: An act to oblige the free male inhabitants of this state above a certain age to give assurance of Allegiance to the same, and for other purposes. WHEREAS allegiance and protection are reciprocal, and those who will not bear the former are not entitled to the benefits of the later, Therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that all free born male inhabitants of this state, above the age of sixteen years, except imported servants during the time of their service, shall, on or before the tenth day of October next, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation before some one of the justices of the peace of the county, city, or borough, where they shall respectively inhabit; and the said justice shall give a certificate thereof to every such person, and the said oath or affirmation shall be as followeth, viz . . . And the justices tendering such oath or affirmation are hereby directed to deliver a list of the names of such recusants to the county lieutenant, or chief commanding officer of the militia, who is hereby authorised and directed forthwith to cause such recusants to be disarmed
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    6 William Waller Hening, Stat. at Large; Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia 531 (1819)
    (1755)
    § 5: That every person so as aforesaid enlisted (except free mulattoes, negroes, and Indians) shall be armed in the manner following, that is to say: That every person so as aforesaid enlisted (except free mulattoes, negroes, and Indians) shall be armed in the manner following, that is to say: Every soldier shall be furnished with a firelock well fixed, a bayonet fitted to the same, a double cartouch-box.
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    1631 Va. Acts 174
    (1631)
    Act 56: It is ordered and appointed, that the commanders of all the several plantations, do upon holy days exercise the men under his command, and that the commanders yearly do likewise upon the first day of December, take a muster of their men, together with the women and children, and their ages, countries, and towns, where they were born, with the ships they came in, and year of the Lord, as also of arms and munition . . .
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    1785 Va. Acts 2
    (1785)
    Ch. 1, § III, pt. 2: An Act to Amend and Reduce into one Act, the Several Laws for Regulating and Disciplining the Militia: Required members of the militia to keep arms, ammunition, and accoutrements ready when called for by their commanding officer.
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    1676 Va. Laws 37
    (1665)
    Enforced militias to arm themselves in order to protect churches, courts, and other public meetings from "Indians."

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