On December 16, 1775, the War Office sent the following notice to the London Gazette to encourage volunteers for the army. Although it is not mentioned in the notice, each volunteer was given a bounty of a guinea and a half.

 

War Office, December 16, 1775.

IT is His Majesty’s Pleasure, that, from the date hereof, and during the continuance of the Rebellion now subsisting in North America, every person, who shall enlist as a soldier in any of His Majesty’s Marching Regiments of Foot, shall be entitled to his discharge at the end of Three Years, or at the end of the said Rebellion, at the option of His Majesty.

By His Majesty’s Command,

Barrington