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 Thomas Pickering, Esquire, an officer of government ... we have thought fit to offer .. a public reward of three hundred dollars ... Given in Council, under the hand of the Honourable Peter Muhlenberg, Esquire, vice-president ... at Philadelphia, this eighth day of July ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council.

Contributor:

Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel, 1746-1807.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44768.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829.

Pickering, Timothy.

Luzerne County (Pa.)--History.

Luzerne County (Pa.).

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

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

Other Title:

Pennsylvanien, ss. Von dem Vice-Praüsidenten und dem Hohen Rath der Republik Pennsylvanien, eine Proclamation.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1788]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Signed: Peter Muhlenberg. Attest. Charles Biddle, secretary.

Followed by the same text in German.

Mistakenly dated 1785? by Bristol.

At head of title: state seal.

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 44768).

Cited in:

Bristol B6139

Shipton and Mooney 44768

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