Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1885, Vol. 9 In November, 1755, an Act of Parliament had been passed for raising a regiment of four battalions, each of 1000 men, in America. The men were to be drawn from the Swiss and other foreigners settled in the colonies, but principally from the Germans in Pennsylvania, to be strengthened, however, by seven or eight hundred Old soldiers from Germany. Major John Rutherford, to whom the recruit ing of the regiment was committed, writes to Governor Shirley, from Philadelphia, on the 29th of June, 1756. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.