Revolutionary War Bounty

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The Continental Army had 26,000 men in July 1779, but less than 15,000 by the following summer.(9) Some states vigorously sought to maintain enlistment by offering huge cash bounties to soldiers who reenlisted. Pennsylvania was conspicuously stingy in this endeavor.
To placate the army and the Pennsylvania troops in particular, Washington convinced the Continental Congress in 1779 to give serving soldiers a $100 bounty.(10)
Meanwhile, new soldiers were receiving a bounty of $200. In February of 1780, Connecticut and Rhode Island were offering $300 to new enlistees, and New Jersey was offering $1,000.(11)
By 1781, many soldiers in the Pennsylvania Line had served for three years, having received from the state only a $20 bounty at enlistment. Furthermore, the real value of the soldiers’ bounty pay was depreciating significantly.(12)
(10) Van Doren, Carl. Mutiny in January. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1943. p. 17.
(11) Van Doren, p. 19.
(12) Van Doren, p. 16.

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Index/Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789
Statement of Responsibility: compiled by Kenneth E. Harris and Steven D. Tilley
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Bounties
1775
Northern Army 340, 448
Navy 387
Reenlistment 393
Rhode Island 408

1776
For Canada service 110
Enlistments 483, 565, 620, 722, 874, 1043, 1125
Money for 870
By Maryland 912
For making muskets 478
Salt 398

1777
New levies 28, 576
Land 171n
Ohio Garrison 231
To crew Andrew Doria 292
Clothing 716
Virginia troops 1038

1778
To seamen 29
To militia drafts 202
Pulaski's Legion 312
Clothing 573
Armand's Legion 644
Additional 889
Galleys 1119

1779
108, 298, 758, 1348
Rhode Island 471, 476, 504, 546

1783
286, 955
Export 927

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Enlistment
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1776
Bounties 483, 620, 762, 932, 944, 947
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1778
Bounties 889
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Full Journals

https://www.constitution.org/uslaw/cont-cong/05_journals_continental_congress.pdf
Volume 5
p 483
Wednesday 26 Jue 1776
Resolved, That a bounty of ten dollars be given to every non-commissioned officer and soldier, who will inlist to serve for the term of three years. 

p 565
Tuesday 16 July 1776
That General Washington be informed, that the bounty granted by the resolution of Congree of the 26 June, was intended as a general regulation, and to extend to all such men, now in the continental service, and all others, who will inlist for the term of three years, to be computed from and after the expiration of the term of their present inlistment.

p 620
...
Resolved, That the resolution of the 17th of January last, allowing to officers 1 dollar and 1/3d of a dollar for every man they inlist, be extended to officers who inlist for the new army for three years:



https://www.constitution.org/uslaw/cont-cong/06_journals_continental_congress.pdf
Volume 6 
p 874
That the allowance to officers of 1 1/3 dollars for enlisting soldiers be not extended or given on the reinlistment of the soldiers in camp.


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Volume 7
p 28
Friday 10 January 1777
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Resolved. That 300,000 dollars be sent to Eb Hancock Esq the deputy pay master general in the eastern department, for the purpose of paying the bounties and defraying the expences of raising the new levies in that department.
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https://www.constitution.org/uslaw/cont-cong/13_journals_continental_congress.pdf
Volume 13
Tuesday March 9 1779
p 298
Whereas Congree by an act of 23 January last, did among other things, authorize the Commander in Chief to take the most effectual measures to inlist for the continuance of the war new recruits in the United States, to compleast the battalions to their proper complement; and for this purpose to grant to each new recruit who should inlist in any of the continental battalions during the war, such a bounty as the Commander in Chief should think fit, but not to exceed 200 dollars; and it being apprehended that the said provisions will not answer the good purposes thereby intended:

Resolved, That eh above recited clause of the said act of Congress be repealed; and that it be earnestly recommended to the several states to make up and compleat their respective battalions to their full complement by draughts, or in any other manner they shall think proper; and that they have their quotas of deficiencies ready to take the field, and to march to such place as the Commander in Chief shall direct, without delay;

That a bounty of 200 dollars, out of the continental treasury, shall be granted to each recruit, who, after the 23 day of January last, hath inlisted, or shall inlist durin the war; [or in case the State shall have granted as great, or greater bounty, the said 200 dollars, for every recruit, shall be passed to the credit of the State respectively for whose quota he shall be raised]