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Library Company of Philadelphia / https://therevolutionarycity.org/islandora/object/lcprevcity%3A3348#pag…IMAGE INFORMATION

British proclamation forbidding unauthorized confiscation of provisions, and offering reparation for such injuries already sustained, 1779

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

N.d.

Primary Source Reference:

Library Company Accession File

Author/Composer:

Great Britain. Army

Title Information:

By order of His Excellency Sir William Howe, K.B. general and commander in chief, &c. &c. &c. Proclamation: Whereas complaint hath been made to the police, that divers ill-disposed persons have, under pretence of bringing in provisions, gone up and down the River Delaware, landed in divers parts of Pennsylvania and the Jerseys, and taken by force, the property of several of His Majesty's loyal subjects ... /Given under my hand at Philadelphia, this 23d day of March, in the eighteenth year of His Majesty's reign. Joseph Galloway, superintendent-general

Imprint Information:

[Philadelphia]: Macdonald & Cameron, [1778]

Repository:

LCP, Call no. sm # Am 1778 Gre Brit (2)394.F.51; Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800), No. 15822