By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, governor and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas by my proclamation, bearing date the fifteenth day of September last past ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five ...
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