Conductor generalis, or, The office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor : as also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c
Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, goalers, coroners, constables, jury men, over-seers of the poor
Office, duty and authority of justices of the peace
Responsibility
compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and the several other books on those subjects, by James Parker ... ; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America, by a Gentleman of the law ; the whole alphabetically digested under the several titles, with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles ; to which are added, the excise and militia laws of the United States, and the acts called the Ten Pound Act of the states of Pennsylvania and New-York.
Susquehanna University Press ; Associated University Presses
Date of Publication
c1999.
Physical Description
438 p. ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-432) and index.
Contents
The citizen-soldier -- The militia in American perspective -- The northern colonial militia -- Colonial militias in the middle and southern states -- The militia and the Army -- The militia after the revolution -- The courts and the militia -- Conclusions.
Summary
The American militia system fulfilled many roles in colonial America. It offered protection for the colonists, provided a sense of community to the new settlers, and was an instrument of integration for subsequent immigrants. In the Revolution the militia did home-guard duty and acted as a reservoir of trained manpower for the Continental Line, although many militiamen fought alongside the regular army in crucial engagements.
The emergence of a true standing army, and the general failure of the militia in the War of 1812, led to decreased reliance upon it. After 1900, Elihu Root demanded that the militia law and training be revised, leading to a nationalization of the system and the replacement of traditional militias with the national guard system. By World War I, the dual enlistment clause made militiamen simultaneously members of the militias of their own states and members of a national militia that could be deployed as the federal government chose. Still, as recently as the 1980s the national government and the states clashed over the training of militias beyond the nation's boundary.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-113) and index.
Contents
A grand view -- "Spirits form the vastly deep" -- Delaware --- Maryland -- Pennsylvania -- New Jersey -- From North and South -- Glory forgotten.
Introduction -- A grand view -- "Spirits from the vastly deep" -- Delaware -- Maryland -- Pennsylvania -- New Jersey -- From North and South -- Glory forgotten.
Summary
"The "Flying Camp" is a vaguely understood episode of the American Revolution. In May 1776 the Continental Congress authorized the formation of a force of 10,000 militia, conceived by General George Washington as a "mobile reserve" that would both defend the army's garrisons in the Middle States and spread alarm amongst the British. Most, but not all, of the putative organization was to come from the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. In point of fact, the Flying Camp as an idea and actuality barely survived the year. In the wake of the New York and New Jersey campaigns of 1776 it became abundantly clear that what Washington needed was a reliable and substantial Continental Army, not short-term, undersubscribed militia haphazardly organized under the chimera of a "Flying Camp." Despite its unsustainability as a military concept, the officers and noncommissioned members of the various elements of the Flying Camp rendered important service to the Nation in the campaigns of Long Island, Trenton, and Princeton, among others. Drawing on original sources, particularly the correspondence of the Continental Congress, state committees of safety, the George Washington papers, and more, Baker fills in the gaps in the history of the Flying Camp that have eluded historians until now. In his able hands, we trace the Flying Camp from its beginnings in Washington's imagination, to the dispatches of the new Congress enjoining the Middle States to commit specified numbers of militiamen to this important cause, to the logistical difficulties in achieving the objectives in General Washington's master plan, and to the actual service of Flying Camp militia in the campaigns of 1776." -- Publisher.
