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Pennsylvania, ss. By the president and the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation : Whereas by the deposition of Thomas Leaming, Junior, Esquire, taken according to law, it appears that in the night of the twelfth of this present month, in Penn Street, in the district of Southwark, he was robbed of a sum of money, in silver, and that at the same time and place, Mrs. Elizabeth Houston was robbed of her hat and dangerously wounded ... Given ... at Philadelphia, this fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four. ...

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council
Other Authors:	Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1784]
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 18687.
Subjects:	Leaming, Thomas, > 1748-1797. Houston, Elizabeth. Robbery > Pennsylvania. Bounties > Pennsylvania. Broadsides.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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