Pennsylvania, ss. : By the vice-president and the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation : Whereas by depositions taken according to law, it appears that several evil disposed persons have conspired to obstruct the execution of the laws in the county of Luzerne, and have violently seized and carried off the person of Timothy Pickering, Esquire, an officer of government ... Given ... at Philadelphia, this eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight. ...