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By the Honourable Patrick Gordon, Esq; lieutenant governour of the province of Pennsylvania ... A proclamation : ... Now for prevention of all further and other breaches of the established peace and friendship, between us and the said natives: I do ... hereby strictly charge and command all and singular his majesty's subjects ... that on no pretence they abuse any Indian-native of the nations around us ... or any other coming and demeaning themselves peaceably amongst us ... Given in Council at Philadelphia ... the sixteenth day of May ... 1728. ...

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Governor (1726-1736 : Gordon)
Other Authors:	Gordon, Patrick, approximately 1664-1736
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 3087.
Subjects:	Indians of North America > Pennsylvania. Indians, Treatment of > United States. Murder > Pennsylvania. Broadsides.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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