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Philadelphia, May 20th, 1800. : Sir, You are hereby summoned to attend at the Philadelphia gaol, on Thursday next, at five o'clock in the morning, as one of the posse comitatus ...
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 49078 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, John, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49078.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fries, John, approximately 1750-1818.
- Fries, John.
- Heany, Frederick, 1769-1818.
- Heany, Frederick.
- Getman, John.
- Executions and executioners--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Executions and executioners.
- Treason--Pennsylvania.
- Treason.
- Crime--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Crime.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Pennsylvania.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1800]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Summoning a posse in order to execute the sentence against John Fries, Frederick Heany, and John Getman of Quakerstown. The men were convicted of treason for their part in a rebellion against federal taxation and sentenced to death, but shortly after the date of this summons, they were pardoned by Pres. Adams.
- Signed: John Hall, marshal.
- 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 49078).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B11044
- Shipton and Mooney 49078
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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