Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
N.d.
Primary Source Reference:
Library Company Accession File
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Title Information:
Philadelphia, 12th month, 6th, 1781: On the 26th ultimo a committee of six Friends, by appointment waited on the president of the Executive Council, and the speaker of the General Assembly with copies of the following representation, to request the favour of them to lay the same before each of the public bodies at which they respectively presided, which they obligingly undertook, and it is now printed for the use of the members of our own society, and the information of others who are unacquainted with our religious principles. To the president and Executive Council, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and others whom it may concern; The following representation on behalf of the people called Quakers, sheweth, that the outrages and violences committed on the property, and on divers of the persons of the inhabitants of Philadelphia, of our religious society, by companies of licentious people parading the streets, destroying the windows and doors of our houses, breaking into and plundering some of them, on the evening of the 24th of last month, increase the occasion of our present address to you ..
Imprint Information:
[Philadelphia, 1781]
Repository:
LCP, Call no. sm # Am 1781 Fri Soc 962.F.161; English Short Title Catalogue W38950
