By His Excellency the president, and Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation : Whereas there is just cause to believe that our cruel and inveterate enemies, despairing of the conquest of America by open and manly force, are about to adopt the mean and savage policy of distress and depredation. ... Given ... at Philadelphia, this second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.
| Author/creator | Pennsylvania |
| Other author | Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Philadelphia] : Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1779. |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16431. ^A478749 |
| General note | Exhorting the populace to prepare to resist the enemy's imminent "policy of distress and depredation." |
| General note | Signed: Joseph Reed, president. Attest. T. Matlack, secretary. |
| General note | Coat of arms at head of title. |
| References | Evans 16431 |
| References | Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3936 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16431). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
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