To the representatives of the freemen of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met. : Divers freemen of the said commonwealth beg leave to shew, that, by the laws of the state, religious societies of people are entitled to hold lots of ground for the purposes of erecting thereon houses for worship, school houses, and for burying grounds ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Society of Free Quakers.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17164.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Society of Free Quakers.

Society of Friends--Pennsylvania.

Society of Friends.

Society of Friends--Controversial literature.

Excommunication.

Quakers.

Pennsylvania.

Excommunication--Quakers.

Pennsylvania--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

History.

Genre:

Controversial literature.

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Francis Bailey], [1781]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Petition presented Dec. 2, 1781, by members of the Society of Free Quakers, who had been disowned by the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for affirming allegiance to Pennsylvania and the United States and for holding public office, paying taxes, and bearing arms. The petitioners request that their right "to hold in common with others of that society, the meeting houses, school houses, burying grounds, lots of land, and other the estates ..." be recognized by the commonwealth.

Imprint supplied by Evans.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 18.4 x 21.9 cm.

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 17164).

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Evans 17164

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4165

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