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By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas a number of armed men, unlawfully assembled, did, on Friday, the twenty-ninth of January last, forceably enter the goal at Carlisle ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight ...

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Governor (1763-1771 : Penn)
Other Authors:	Penn, John, 1729-1795
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 11024.
Subjects:	Stump, Frederick. Ironcutter, John. Bounties > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia. Crime > Pennsylvania. Escapes. Murder > Pennsylvania. Broadsides.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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