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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delaware. President (1778-1781 : Rodney)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16257.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Embargo.
- Commerce.
- Delaware--Commerce.
- Delaware.
- Delaware--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- History.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))
- Place of Publication:
- Wilmington [Del.], : Printed by James Adams., [1779]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Signed: Caesar Rodney. By His Excellency command, James Booth, secretary.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 16257).
- Cited in:
- Evans 16257
- Rink, E. Delaware, 121
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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