Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Governor (1763-1771 : Penn)
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Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Governor (1763-1771 : Penn
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- Open LibraryOL4633467A
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- Pennsylvania (3)
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Books by Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Governor (1763-1771 : Penn)
Total count: 3
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By the Honourable John Penn, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in chief of the Province of Pennsylvania, and Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex, on Delaware, a proclamationWhereas I have received information, that on Wednesday, the fourteenth day of this month, a number of people, armed, and mounted on horseback unlawfully assembled together, and went to the Indian Town in the Conestagoe Manor in Lancaster County, and without the least reason or provocation, in cool blood, barbarously killed six of the Indians ... Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the said Province, at Philadelphia, the twenty-second day of December Anno Domino one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three ...Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall1763-01-01
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By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamationWhereas I have received information, that many ill-disposed persons ... have ... seated themselves upon lands within this province, not yet purchased of the natives ... I have therefore thought fit to issue this proclamation, hereby strictly enjoining and requiring ... all persons whatsoever, who have made any such settlements ... immediately to evacuate and abandon them ... And whereas it has been reported that a certain Frederick Stump ... had my ... authority for making such settlement; I do hereby declare, that the said report is utterly false and groundless, and ... that, on the contrary, I have constantly denied every application of that kind. Given ... at Philadelphia, the twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-six ...Printed by D. Hall, and W. Sellers, at the new printing-office, near the Market.1766-01-01
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By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, lieutenant-governor ... of Pennsylvania ... A proclamationWhereas it appears ... that a certain Lazarus Stewart ... being joined by a number of other lawless people ... Given under my hand ... at Philadelphia, the ninth day of February ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one. ...Printed by D. Hall, and W. Sellers1771-01-01