To the electors and freeholders of the city of Philadelphia : Friends and fellow-citizens, A late law of this province having appointed the election of four additional members of Assembly for this city ...

To the freemen of the city of Philadelphia : Friends & fellow-citizens! The hour is arrived, in which you must either triumph over an insidious and daring attack upon the equality of rights, and the freedom of suffrage ... or sink forever into an ignominous state of silence, insignificance, and servility. ...
by: Hambden
Published: (1792)

To the freeholders, to prevent mistakes : A short vindication and explanation of part of a late mysterious printed sheet, called, Advice and information to the freeholders and freemen of the province of Pennsylvania, but particularly to the city of Philadelphia.
by: J. H.

To the freeholders & freemen a further information : When strong and plain truths are published to the world ...

A serious address to the freeholders and other inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania.
by: Philo-Pennsylvaniae
Published: (1758)

Lancaster County, to wit: to the electors of the borough and county of Lancaster : Notice is hereby given to the freemen and inhabitants of the county of Lancaster, that by virtue of a writ to me directed ... an election will be held at the court-house in the borough of Lancaster ... for electing and choosing a member to serve for the said county of Lancaster, as a representative of the said county, in the General Assembly of the said province ...

Friends, countrymen and fellow-citizens! The present crisis demands your serious attention : You are now about giving your sufferages for members of the General Assembly ...
by: Constitutional mechanic
Published: (1787)

Some necessary precautions, worthy to be considered by all English subjects, in their election of members, to represent them in General Assembly : wherein, neither fear, flattery, nor gain, ought to byass.

To the free and independent electors of the city of Philadelphia : Friends and fellow-citizens, You are this day invited to exercise one of the greatest privileges a freeman can enjoy in society ...
by: Philirenaeus
Published: (1776)

To the free-holders of the province of Pennsylvania : Friends and countrymen, As the time approaches for chusing representatives in the General-Assembly ...

To the free-holders of the province of Pennsylvania : Friends and countrymen, As the time approaches for chusing representatives in the General-Assembly ...

In Convention for the State of Pennsylvania. Thursday, September 26, 1776 : Whereas it is not convenient to hold the next election ...

Remarks on the late proceeding of some members of Assembly at Philadelphia: April, 1728.

In pursuance of a writ to me directed, under the hand and seal of John Jacobs, Esquire, speaker of the Honourable House of Assembly of the state of Pennsylvania, dated at Philadelphia the day of the date hereof ...

The letter to the free-holders of the province of Pennsylvania, continued.
by: T. B.
Published: (1743)

To the freeholders and other electors of assembly-men, for Pennsylvania.
by: Freeman of Pennsylvania

A letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia to his friend in Bucks.
by: Philalethes

Mr. Printer, I am not a man of many words ... : A riddle. There has appeared in this city, a tall man ... he would be glad of a seat in the Assembly ...
by: White-oak (Writer)
Published: (1770)

To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York : Whereas at a very considerable meeting of freeholders and freemen ... it was unanimously determined to preserve ... the peace of this city, by preventing a contested election for members to serve in the next General Assembly ...
Published: (1769)

To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, Every good citizen must necessarily desire to preserve the peace of the city, and the freedom of elections ...
by: Scott, John Morin, 1730-1784
Published: (1769)

To the free and independent electors of the city and county of New-York : A number of your fellow citizens ... respectfully beg leave to present the following list as the best calculated to represent the different classes of citizens, in the Hon. the House of Assembly ...
Published: (1789)

Friends, brethren, and countrymen, If the memory of your ancestors, your own honour, and that of your posterity, possess as I trust they do, a just affection in your bosoms, let me implore you by all those sacred regards, solemnly to reflect on the importance of the part each of you are to act to-morrow. Consider, O! consider the irrevocable disgrace, the lasting infamy that must stain the reputation of Pennsylvania to the latest ages, should her generous free-born sons call into her Assembly, the author of Americanus, the most daring, the most detestable advocate for American slavery, that this populous continent, amongst all its children, ever produced. ...
Published: (1765)

Copies of some original papers, and other proceedings, relating to the late difference in the House of Representatives of the province of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met the 15th, and continued by adjournment to the 20th April, 1728.

To the friends of Israel Israel : You have agreed to support this man at the election, this day, for a senator. ...
by: One of the people
Published: (1798)

The Substance, of a council held at Lancaster August the 28th 1764 : By a committee of Presbyterian ministers and elders deputed from all parts of Pennsylvania, in order to settle the ensuing election of members for the Assembly. : Published, at the request of their respective congregations. : [Five lines of verse].

To the freeholders and freemen, of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, To pretend to prove what cannot be denied, would be wasting time to no purpose. That it seem'd to be the general voice of the inhabitants, to return the four late members to represent this city and county in the next General Assembly; is as true as the principle upon which that general voice was founded, is just, virtuous, and reasonable. ...

Advertisement : In pursuance of a writ to me directed ... Dated at Philadelphia, the 28th day of February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six. William Dewees, sheriff. ...

To the freemen of Pennsylvania, and more especially to those of the city and county of Philadelphia : My beloved fellow-citizens and countrymen, The consideration of the present state of the affairs of this province, hath induced me to offer you the following observations ...
by: Philadelphus
Published: (1755)

To the electors of Baltimore County : During the last election, Mr. Charles Ridgely (of William) publicly avowed an intention of quitting his seat in assembly next fall ... in consequence of which, and in compliance with a respectable application, I then consented to expose myself to the calumny and detraction peculiarly incident to the situation, by standing a canditate [as printed] at the ensuing general election.
by: Lux, George, 1754-1797

To the printur of the Penselvaney kronical : mr Godard i was caled into a gentelmans hous tother day to sweep his chimlees ...
by: Terence, sweep

New-York, January 4, 1769. To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York : The appointment of two members only, by the various denominations of dissenters, who form a majority of the electors of this city and county, having been offered and not complied with; it was unanimously agreed, at a meeting of several hundred inhabitants, that Philip Livingston, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Theodorus Van Wyck, and John Morin Scott, Esqrs, be candidates at the ensuing election for representatives. The votes and interest of the freeholders and freemen are therefore requested for those gentlemen.

To the freemen of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, September 28, 1764 : Gentlemen, Your desire of knowing how the militia bill came to fail in the last Assembly, shall immediately be comply'd with. ...
by: Veritas
Published: (1764)

To the freeholders, and freemen of the city and province of New-York : Gentlemen, The method of taking the suffrages of the people, for places of trust, by ballot, is so manifestly conducive to the preservation of liberty, that its opposer must necessarily be eyed with jealousy ...
Published: (1769)

The mode of elections considered.
by: J. W., a squinter on public affairs
Published: (1769)

Assembly. John Dickinson, Michael Hilligas ... Burgesses. Samuel Shoemaker, Thomas Mifflin : Fellow citizens and countrymen. Most of the above-named gentlemen have been applied to ... to represent us in the ensuing Assembly ...
Published: (1772)

Philadelphia battlefields : disruptive campaigns and upset elections in a changing city /
by: Kromer, John, 1948-
Published: (2020)

Committee for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia.