By His Excellency Caesar Rodney, Esq; president ... of the Delaware state, a proclamation : ... I do therefore ... lay an embargo prohibiting the inhabitants of this state ... to export therefrom to any port or place ... not being in the possession of the enemy, any wheat, flour, rye ... Given under my hand and the great-seal of the state, at New-Castle, the thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.