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British proclamation ordering Philadelphia and Germantown residents to report to the Royal army on the availability of teams, horses, wagons, and carts, 1777

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

N.d.

Primary Source Reference:

Library Company Accession File

Author/Composer:

Great Britain. Army

Title Information:

Advertisement. The inhabitants of Philadelphia, Germantown, and the country about, are required to give in immediately to the quarter master general's chief waggon master, Captain Beaman, at his office in the waggon yard near the statehouse, a return of the number of horses, waggons, teams, and carts in their possession: Those that choose to hire their waggons by the day shall be paid the customery price, and those that attempt to conceal their waggons, &c. and do not make the return as directed above, will have them seized. N.B. A number of men wanted to drive waggons; their pay shall be three shillings, New-York currency, per day, and provisions found them

Imprint Information:

Philadelphia: B. Towne, [1777]

Repository:

LCP, Call no. sm # Am 1777 Gre Brit (2)394.F.12; Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800), No. 15343