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<blockquote>I have a thousand dollars in hard money; I will pledge my plate for three thousand more. I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum which will be sold for the most they will bring. They are at the service of the state. If we succeed in defending our firesides and our homes I may be remunerated; if we do not then the property will be of no value to me. Our friend, John Stark, who so nobly maintained the honor of our state at Bunker Hill, may safely be entrusted with the honor of the enterprise and we will check the progress of Burgoyne.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cWvmHlUZUdEC&pg=PA21 John Langdon]</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>I have a thousand dollars in hard money; I will pledge my plate for three thousand more. I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum which will be sold for the most they will bring. They are at the service of the state. If we succeed in defending our firesides and our homes I may be remunerated; if we do not then the property will be of no value to me. Our friend, John Stark, who so nobly maintained the honor of our state at Bunker Hill, may safely be entrusted with the honor of the enterprise and we will check the progress of Burgoyne.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cWvmHlUZUdEC&pg=PA21 John Langdon]</ref></blockquote>
During the battle at Bennington and later at the [[Battle of Saratoga]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XSDnxlK1sMUC&pg=PA11]</ref> he led ''Langdon's Company of Light Horse Volunteers''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CbRVMCb3l60C&pg=PA133 Year Book of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Missouri]</ref>
==Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention==
==Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention==