By the Honourable Robert Hunter Morris, Esq; lieutenant governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania, and counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex, upon Delaware, a proclamation. : Whereas the Delaware tribe of Indians, and others, in Confederacy with them, have ... fallen upon this province, and in a most cruel, savage and perfidious manner, killed and butchered great numbers of the inhabitants .. Given under my hand and the great seal of the province, at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Governor (1754-1756 : Morris)

Contributor:

Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 7754.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bounties--Pennsylvania.

Bounties.

Indians of North America--Wars--1750-1815.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Wars.

Pennsylvania--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763.

Pennsylvania.

History.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Other Title:

By the Honourable Robert Hunter Morris, Esq; lieutenant governor ...

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall., MDCCLVI. [1756]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Declaring war on the Delaware Indians and listing bounties for their capture.

Signed: Robert Hunter Morris. By His Honour's command, Richard Peters, secretary.

At head of title: royal arms.

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 7754).

Cited in:

Evans 7754

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1497

Miller, C.W. Franklin, 650

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