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British proclamation ordering a census of forage lands, 1778

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

N.d.

Primary Source Reference:

Library Company Accession File

Author/Composer:

Great Britain. Army

Notes:

Du Simitière copy sold inn 1965 as duplicate by LCP, which has another copy.

Title Information:

By order of His Excellency Sir William Howe, K.B. general and commander in chief. &c: It being expedient that a sufficient quantity of forage and pasturage should be provided for the use of the horses in His Majesty's service; all persons having meadow or pasture land southward of the city of Philadelphia, between the River Delaware and Schuylkill, are hereby strictly enjoined and required to make a true return of the quantities of each in their several possessions, into my office, of or before the seventh day of March next, distinguishing, in such return, the ground fit for hay from the pasture-land. /Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the twenty-seventh day of February, 1778. Daniel Wier, commissary-general

Imprint Information:

Philadelphia: James Humphreys, Jr., [1778]

Repository:

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800), No. 15821