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)

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 ...
Published: (1776)

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)

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.

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

Friends, countrymen, and fellow-electors.
Published: (1774)

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)

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 ...

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

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

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

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)

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 ...

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)

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

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. ...

Now in the press, and will be speedily published, the life and adventures of a certain Quaker Presbyterian Indian colonel : To which is added, the qualifications necessary to entitle a man to the dignified name of a modern moderate Quaker. By Tim Trimmer.
Published: (1766)

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].

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 freemen of the common wealth of Pennsylvania : It is reported that the representatives of the people in the Pennsylvania Assembly ...
by: One of the people
Published: (1777)

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

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

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)

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 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 freemen of Pennsylvania : The present mode of electing members of Congress ... is calculated to lead you into a choice of persons ... in whom ... a well-founded confidence cannot be reposed. ...
by: Mentor
Published: (1792)

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

To my respected friend, I.N : That a person of such a distinguished character as thy self has born for many years amongst friends, should in thy declining age, be unwarily prevailed on, to appear as a party writer, in print, did at first, occasion a very great trouble and concern upon my mind ...
by: Jotham

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 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 freemen of Pennsylvania. [two lines from Tacitus] : It is with the utmost astonishment and grief, I have received information of the contents of a bill now depending in the House of Assembly of this province for extending the excise. ...
by: Civis
Published: (1772)

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)

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. ...

To the representatives of the freemen of the counties of Chester, Bucks, and Philadelphia, now met at the state-house : Gentlemen, By circular letters sent by express through the counties of Chester, Bucks and Philadelphia ...
Published: (1774)

Pennsylvania elections : statewide contests from 1950-2004 /
by: Kennedy, John J.
Published: (2006)

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.