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Pennsylvania, ss: A proclamation. By the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : Whereas the following named persons, late and heretofore inhabitants of this state, that is to say, ---William Ross ... Given .. at Philadelphia, this thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight ..
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Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council
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An address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America
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United States. Continental Congress
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An address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America
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United States. Continental Congress
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Boston, September 27, 1774, Gentlemen, The Committees of Correspondence of this and several of the neighbouring towns, having taken into consideration the vast importance of withholding from the troops now here, labour, straw, timber ... in short every article excepting provisions necessary for subsistence ..
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The speech of George the Third, tyrant of Great Britain, to his venal Parliament, delivered October 31, 1776
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Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III)
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Resolves of the Honourable Continental Congress
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United States. Continental Congress
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The Tory act
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United States. Continental Congress
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In Council. Philadelphia, 28th July, 1777 : Sir, The following lines come to you from Council in the most pressing exigency of public affairs, in which the very existence of this state is threatened ..
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Pennsylvania. Council of Safety
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At a meeting of the committee of the county of Lancaster, 5th July, 1776 : the committee taking into their consideration the important business of raising the quota of troops in this county ..
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Lancaster County (Pa.). Committee of Observation
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War Office (Williamsburg) August 17, 1779 : Sir, It is a matter of no small moment to the salvation of this country, that the act passed last session of Assembly, for providing a defence for this commonwealth, be carried into effect with all possible expedition. ..
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Virginia. War Office
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Extracts from the proceedings of the Provincial Conference of Committees for the Province of Pennsylvania : held at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, June 18, 1776
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Pennsylvania. Provincial Conference of Committees (1776 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
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In Council. Philadelphia, July 9th, 1778 : Sir, As it is of great importance to the reputation of the state, that attention be paid to the settlement of the public accounts in due time ..
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Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council
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In Council of Safety, Philadelphia, December 7, 1776 : Whereas the safety and security of every state depends on the virtuous exertions of individuals in its defence ... Therefore resolved, that no excuse ought to be admitted or deemed sufficient against marching with the militia at this time, except sickness, infirmity of body ..
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Pennsylvania. Council of Safety
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In the House of Representatives, April 11, 1776. Resolved, that the following officers and seamen be appointed for each of the vessels now building by this colony ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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A Genuine letter from a well-known patriot at St. James's, to his friend in Boston, relative to the present distracted state of American affairs : Dated London, November 28, 1774
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By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq ; governor of the English colony of Connectict, in New-England, in America. A proclamation, for an embargo : Whereas the General Assembly ... passed an act, that no rum, sugar, molasses, salt, or other West-India goods shall be exported out of this colony ... I therefore do, hereby strictly enjoin and require all persons, within the colony, that they carefully, circumspectly, and strictly observe ... the act aforesaid ... Given under my hand, in the Council-chamber, in Hartford, the 16th day of May ... 1776
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Connecticut. Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull)
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In Committee of Safety, for the state of New-York. Fish-kills, Nov. 7, 1776 : As great abuses are daily committed in the granting of passes without sufficient examination, to persons inimical to the state ; in order to remedy the same, as well as to prevent and detect counterfeit passes. Ordered ..
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New York (State). Committee of Safety
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By His Excellency the Right Hon. John Earl of Dunmore ... A proclamation : Virginia, to wit, Whereas I have been informed, from undoubted authority, that a certain Patrick Henry, of the county of Hanover, and a number of deluded followers, have taken up arms ... Given under my hand, and the seal of the colony, at Williamsburg, this 6th day of May, 1775, and in the 15th year of His Majesty's reign. Dunmore.
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Virginia. Governor (1771-1775 : Dunmore)
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By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq ; governor of the English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America: a proclamation : Whereas it is resolved by the General Assembly ... that an embargo be laid upon the exportation out of this colony by water, the following articles of provision, viz. wheat, rye, Indian corn, pork, beef, live cattle, peas, beans, butter, cheese, bread, flour, and every kind of meal (except necessary stores for vessels bound to sea;) and that such embargo continue and remain until the first day of June next ... I do hereby strictly prohibit and forbid all persons from transporting ... any of the aforesaid articles ... Given under my hand in the Council chamber in New-Haven, this 19th day of October ... 1775
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Connecticut. Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull)
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By order of His Excellency Sir William Howe, K.B. general and commander in chief, &c. &c. &c. Proclamation : I do hereby give notice to the inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia and its environs, it is the order of His Excellency, that "No person whatever, living within the said city and its environs, shall appear in the streets between the beating of the tattoo, at half an hour after eight o'clock in the evening, and the revellie in the morning, without lanthorns ..
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Great Britain. Army
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In the House of Representatives, May 7, 1776. Resolved, that a regiment to consist of seven hundred and twenty-eight men ... be immediately raised ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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Whereas doubts may arise in the minds of some of the good people of this state, who are willing to go out at this important juncture against our unnatural enemies ... Resolved, that all those people who shall march out on this exigence, shall be recalled within the space of two months ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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City of New-York, ss. : Personally appeared before me Benjamin Blagge, one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the city and county of New-York, Isaac Sears, and Paschal N. Smith, of the said city ..
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Blagge, Benjamin
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An act, to discourage desertion, and to punish all such persons as shall harbour or conceal deserters
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Pennsylvania
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By the General Assembly of Maryland, a proclamation : Whereas sundry inhabitants of Somerset and Worcester counties, through the sinister arts of wicked and designing men, have been betrayed into dangerous and highly criminal offences against the government of this state ..
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Maryland. General Assembly
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In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 7, 1776 : your committee appointed for that purpose having deliberately considered the resolves of Continental Congress, of the first, third and fourth instant, for raising a body of militia for the defence of the colonies, in the present campaign, do report, that we have extracted from the said resolves such parts thereof as immediately relate to this colony ..
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New York (Colony). Provincial Congress
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By the Lion & Unicorn, Dieu & mon droit, their lieutenant-generals, governours, vice admirals, &c. &c. &c. &c. A hue & cry. : Whereas I have been informed, from undoubted authority, that a certain Patrick Henry ... and a number of deluded followers, have taken up arms ... Given, &c. this 6th day of May, 1775
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Virginia. Governor (1771-1775 : Dunmore)
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In Provincial Congress, Watertown, May 15th, 1775 : Whereas some of the inhabitants of this colony, and most of them such as have been inimical to the constitution and interest of the same, are now ... taking steps to remove themselves and effects out of this colony ..
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Massachusetts. Provincial Congress
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In the Council of Safety, Savannah, 27th July, 1775 : Resolved, that where this board shall adjudge that any regiment has an extraordinary number of men, and the district too extensive, such regiment shall be subdivided ..
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Georgia. Council of Safety
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Directions for preserving the health of soldiers : recommended to the consideration of the officers in the Army of the United States of America
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Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
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Declaration : Although the Congress, whom the misguided Americans suffer to direct their opposition ... Given at New-York, the nineteenth day of September, 1776. ..
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Great Britain. King's Commissioners for Restoring Peace to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North-America
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Declaration, Whereas by an act passed in the last session of Parliament ..
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Great Britain. King's Commissioners for Restoring Peace to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North-America
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In Congress, May 15, 1776. : Whereas His Britannic Majesty, in conjunction with the Lords and Commons of Great-Britain, has ... excluded the inhabitants of these United Colonies from the protection of the crown: ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies ... to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the Representatives of the people best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents ..
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United States. Continental Congress
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In Council of Safety, Philadelphia, November 14th 1776, 12 o'clock, Thursday : Sir, We have certain intelligence that the enemy has actually sailed from New-York five hundred ships for this city ... As you value the safety of your country, and all that is dear and valuable to men, we most earnestly solicit your immediate assistance, and that you will march all your battalion to this city without the least delay. ..
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Pennsylvania. Council of Safety
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In the House of Representatives, November 1, 1776 : Ordered, that the following address from the General Court of this state, to the officers and private soldiers who are gone from thence and are serving in the American army, be printed in two thousand hand-bills ..
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Massachusetts. General Court
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Proclamation. Whereas by our declarations of the 14th of July, and 19th of September ... Given at New-York, this thirtieth day of November, 1776
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Great Britain. King's Commissioners for Restoring Peace to His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North-America
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New-York, December 6, 1775 : (Yesterday the following letter, and address, to the inhabitants of this colony, was, by His Excellency our governor, sent to Whitehead Hicks, Esq ; mayor of this city.) ..
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New York (Colony). Governor (1771-1780 : Tryon)
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United States Lottery : the scheme is, that this lottery consist of four classes, of one hundred thousand tickets each
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United States Lottery
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In Congress, February 15, 1777 : Resolved, that considering the situation of the New-England states, Congress approve of the measures adopted and recommended by the committee from the four New-England states for the defence of the state of Rhode-Island, and also of the measures to be taken for preventing the depreciation of their currency ..
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United States. Continental Congress
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At a General Assembly of the governor and company of the English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America : holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, A.D. 1776 : An act for raising and equipping a body of minute men, to be held in readiness, for the better defence of this colony, and for repealing an act of the same title made and passed by this Assembly, in December 1775
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Connecticut
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By the United States in Congress assembled: A proclamation : Whereas it hath pleased the Supreme Ruler of all human events, to dispose the hearts of the late belligerent powers ... recommend ... to set apart the second Thursday in December next as a day of public thanksgiving ... Done by the United States in Congress assembled ... this eighteenth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ..
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United States. Continental Congress
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General militia orders : Philadelphia, October 27, 1779
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Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council
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In Council. Philadelphia, July 31, 1777 : Sir, I wrote to you on the 28th instant, and ordered [blank] class of the militia of your county to be immediately marched to Chester. ..
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Pennsylvania. Council of Safety
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In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 13, 1776 : Whereas this Congress have been informed by the Continental Congress, and have reason to believe that an invasion of this colony will very shortly be made. Resolved unanimously, that it be, and it is hereby recommended to all the officers in the militia in this colony, forthwith to review the same, and give orders that they prepare themselves ..
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New York (Colony). Provincial Congress
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By His Excellency Joseph Reed, Esq ; president, and the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation : whereas some ill-disposed persons, designing to disturb the peace and good order of the city and districts ... have published an inflammatory paper ... dated "Philadelphia, April 14, 1780, and signed "Slow and Sure," ... Given at Philadelphia, this sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty
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Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council
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Votes and proceedings of the town of Boston, June 17, 1774 : at a legal and very full meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, by adjournment at Faneuil-Hall, June 17, 1774. The Hon. John Adams, Esq ; moderator
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Boston (Mass.)
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In Council, Philadelphia, October 13, 1779 : Sir, The approach of the fleet of His Most Christian Majesty, under the command of the Count d'Estaing, intended to co-operate with the American Army ... the state of Pennsylvania is called upon to furnish a body of militia to the aid of the Continental Army
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Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council
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To the inhabitants of the United States of America : Friends and countrymen. The present situation of public affairs demands your most serious attention, and particularly the great and encreasing depreciation of your currency ..
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United States. Continental Congress
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By the Honorable Major-General Putnam, commander of the forces of the United American States, at and near the White-Plains. A proclamation : Whereas some soldiers of the Continental Army ... have been led to desert their country's service ... Given under my hand at head-quarters, this 17th of November ... 1777
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United States. Continental Army
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In Congress, April 3, 1776 : Resolved, that every person intending to set forth and fit out a private ship or vessel of war, and applying for a commission or letters of marque and reprisal for that purpose, shall produce a writing, subscribed by him, containing the name, and tonnage or burthen of the ship or vessel ..
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United States. Continental Congress
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