By the Honourable James Hamilton, Esq; lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania, and the counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex, on Delaware, a proclamation : Whereas by an act of Assembly ... it is provided, that there shall be forthwith raised three hundred effective men ... Given under my hand, and the great seal of the said province, at Philadelphia, this seventeenth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one.
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