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- Whereas the rapid and alarming depreciation of the currency in the months of January, February, March, April, and May last, occasioned a town meeting to be held in the State-House yard in this city on the 25th day of the last mentioned month ...
- At a very large and respectable meeting of the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of Philadelphia, on Saturday, June 18, 1774. Thomas Willing, John Dickinson, Esquires, chairmen. : Resolved, I. That the act of Parliament, for shutting up the port of Boston, is unconstitutional; oppressive to the inhabitants of that town; dangerous to the liberties of the British colonies, and that, therefore, we consider our brethren, at Boston, as suffering in the common cause of America. ..
- By His Excellency Elias Boudinot, Esquire, president of the United States in Congress assembled. A proclamation. : ... I do ... summon the honourable the delegates composing the Congress of the United States ... to meet in Congress on Thursday the twenty-sixth day of June instant, at Princeton ... in order that further and more effectual measures may be taken for suppressing the present revolt ... Given under my hand and seal at Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, this twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ..
- By His Excellency Sir William Howe, K.B. general and commander in chief &c. &c. &c. Proclamation. : Whereas it is expedient for the security of the inhabitants, the suppression of vice and licentiousness, the preservation of peace ... I do therefore constitute and appoint Joseph Galloway, Esq; superintendant general, assisted by three magistrates of the police, to be hereafter appointed with powers and authority to make such orders and regulations from time to time, as may most effectually promote the salutary ends above mentioned ..
- By His Excellency Sir William Howe, K.B. general and commander in chief &c. &c. &c. Proclamation. : Whereas many vessels have arrived and are daily arriving in this port, with cargoes of different kinds for the use of His Majesty's forces under my command ..
- By His Excellency Sir William Howe, K.B. general and commander in chief &c. &c. Proclamation. : Whereas by my proclamation bearing date the fourth day of this instant, "All masters of merchant ships were ordered and commanded immediately on their arrival, to make entry of the vessels, and deliver proper manifests of their cargoes, on oath, at the superintendent's office, " ...
- By His Excellency Sir William Howe, K.B. general and commander in chief &c. &c. Proclamation. : Whereas by my proclamation bearing date the fourth day of this month "all masters of merchant ships were ordered and commanded immediately on their arrival, to make entry of the vessels ... "
- By His Excellency Sir William Howe, K.B. general and commander in chief, &c. &c. &c. Proclamation. : Whereas a considerable quantity of naval stores is known to be in this city, the property of which has not been thoroughly ascertained ..
- Committee chamber, Philadelphia, May 18, 1776. : On application from a number of the inhabitants of the city and liberties, requesting the committee to call a meeting of the city and liberties, to be held at the State-House, on Monday morning, at nine o'clock ... this committee, in compliance therewith, give notice, that a meeting of the inhabitants will be held ..
- Committee-room, June 26, 1779. : Agreeable to the resolution of the last general town-meeting for lowering the prices month by month, the following list of several articles, and the prices they bore on the first day of April last, is published for the guidance of buyer and seller ..
- Committee-room. May 28. 1779. : Resolved, that the retail prices of the underwritten articles on the first day of May were as follows ..
- Committee-room. May 31st, 1779. : Notice is hereby given, that the committee will ascertain, as soon as possible, the wholesale and retail prices of goods, as they stood on the first day of April last, and that the prices to be fixt in consequence thereof, are to become current on the first day of July next ensuing ..
- Fellow citizens, Remember the proceedings on last Monday morning at the coffee-house, and on Tuesday at the town-meeting. The liberty of the press and freedom of speech were then both violently attacked. Change both men and measures, or ruin inevitably awaits us. ...
- Head-quarters, Philadelphia, Dec. 13th, 1776. : The general has been informed that some weak or wicked men have maliciously reported, that it is the design and wish of the officers and men in the Continental Army, to burn and destroy the city of Philadelphia ..
- His Excellency the commander in chief, having been pleased to appoint Mr. Francis Gilbert, and Mr. John Henderson, wardens at the port of Philadelphia. All masters of vessels and others concerned, are hereby ordered to obey them as such
- Illumination. : Colonel Tilghman, aid de camp to His Excellency General Washington, having brought official acounts [sic] of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis ..
- In Committee, of Inspection and Observation, February 5th, 1776. : Whereas the Continental Congress did lately resolve, that if any person should be so lost to all virtue ... as to refuse to receive the bills of credit emitted by authority of Congress ... This committee ... do hold up to the world, the said John Drinker, Thomas and Samuel Fisher, as enemies to their country ..
- In Congress, April 11, 1777. : Resolved, that a committee of three be appointed to make diligent enquiry respecting the truth of information just given to Congress, of a quantity of provisions being laid up in the city of Philadelphia ..
- In Council of Safety, November 27, 1776. To the freemen of the city and liberties of Philadelphia. : Fellow citizens, It is our duty to inform you, that our enemies are advancing upon us, and that the most vigourous measures alone can save this city, from falling into their hands. ... Let us defend ourselves like men determined to be free. And we do most earnestly request, that you will meet your fellow citizens at the State-House, to-morrow morning, at ten o'clock, there publicly to determine, what measures we shall pursue. ..
- In Council of Safety, Philadelphia, December 23, 1776. : Friends and countrymen, The pressing exigency of the times induces us once more to address you, while we can deplore the calamities of our country without restraint, and before the voice of truth and the exertions of tyranny are forced back into the bosom of the wretched sufferer. ... We call upon you, we entreat and beseech you to come forth to the assistance of our worthy General Washington and our invaded brethren in the Jerseys ..
- In Council of Safety, Philadelphia, December 8, 1776. : Sir, There is certain intelligence of General Howe's army being yesterday on its march from Brunswick to Princetown, which puts it beyond a doubt that he intends for this city. ... We entreat you to march the militia under your command with all possible expedition to this city, and bring with you as many waggons as you can possibly procure ..
- 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. ..
- 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, and that great numbers had got out of the Hook on 12 o'clock yesterday and were steering towards our capes: 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. As nothing but the most hasty marching of the militia will enable us to make a stand, it is hoped that your battalion will manifest their usual spirit, and come forth on this trying occasion with the alacrity that will do them honour. If you can collect any shovels, spades, grubbing hoes and pitching axes, beg you will bring them forward and the people shall be paid for them a full price.
- In Council of Safety. Philadelphia, January 22, 1777. : Resolved, that Colonel Melcher, barrack-master general, be directed to quarter the militia upon the non-associators in this city ..
- In Council of Safety. Philadelphia, October 14, 1776. : Sir, Congress has received intelligence from General Lee, that the Hessians have embarked from Staten-Island, and that there is too much reason to apprehend they are intended to act against this state:--we, therefore, most earnestly entreat you to exert yourself to the utmost to have your battalion in perfect readiness to march at the shortest warning. ..
- List of the sub-committees, appointed by the Committee for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, to superintend the several districts of said city, &c
- Pennsylvania War-Office, Philadelphia, April 17th, 1777. : Resolved, that a committee of fifty be appointed ..
- Philadelphia, 12th month, 6th, 1781. : On the 26th ultimo a committee of six Friends, by appointment waited on the president of the Executive Council, and the speaker of the General Assembly with copies of the following representation, to request the favour of them to lay the same before each of the public bodies at which they respectively presided, which they obligingly undertook, and it is now printed for the use of the members of our own society, and the information of others who are unacquainted with our religious principles. To the president and Executive Council, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and others whom it may concern; The following representation on behalf of the people called Quakers, sheweth, that the outrages and violences committed on the property, and on divers of the persons of the inhabitants of Philadelphia, of our religious society, by companies of licentious people parading the streets, destroying the windows and doors of our houses, breaking into and plundering some of them, on the evening of the 24th of last month, increase the occasion of our present address to you ...
- Philadelphia, December 8, 1777. : Regulations, under which the inhabitants may purchase the enumerated articles, mentioned in the proclamation of His Excellency Sir William Howe, K.B. general and commander in chief, &c. &c. &c
- Philadelphia, July 23, 1779. To the public. : Fortunately we have preserved the original letter to our late chairman by the chairman of the city committee, and have it therefore in our power to prove ... that the pretended copy introduced to the public by a Mr. A.B. ... is essentially different from it. ..
- Philadelphia, June 7, 1775. : The committee last evening having requested as many members as conveniently could to meet this day at the coffee-house to enquire concerning an information given, that Capt. Robert Torrance, had imported and sold Irish linens, some time in May last, in direct violation of the association of the congress. ..
- Philadelphia, May 20. : At a meeting, at the Statehouse, of a very large number of the inhabitants of the city and liberties of Philadelphia, upon due notification, Major John Bayard, as chairman of the Committee of Inspection and Observation ... informed the people that the meeting was called at the request of a considerable number of respectable citizens ... And it was moved that the resolve of Congress of the 15th instant be read--whereupon it was read in the following words: In Congress, May 15, 1776. ..
- Philadelphia, May 4. (Reprinted in New-York.) : Yesterday, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the effigies of Alexander Wedderburne, Esq; convicted of traducing the Americans, and insulting their agent, before His Majesty's Privy Council, for doing his duty, and of Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; governor of Massachusett's Bay, convicted of an attempt to incense Great Britain against her colonies, were put into a cart and conducted through the streets of this city. ..
- Proceedings of the general town-meeting, held in the State-House Yard, in the city of Philadelphia. : On Monday the twenty-sixth, and by adjournment to Tuesday the twenty-seventh of July last
- The Supreme Executive Council of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: : Whereas at a public auction or vendue, held in the city of Philadelphia, by order of the Supreme Executive Council aforesaid, on the [blank] day of [blank] for the sale of divers lots and lands lying and being within the said city of Philadelphia, and belonging to the commonwealth aforesaid; set off and apportioned by the Supreme Executive Council aforesaid, to be sold, pursuant to the directions of an act of the General Assembly of the said commonwealth, passed the twenty-fifth day of March 1780, entitled "An act for striking the sum of one hundred thousand pounds, in bills of credit, for the present support of the army; and for establishing a fund for the certain redemption of the same, and for other purposes therein mentioned, " and of one other act of the General Assembly aforesaid, passed the tenth day of April [blank] entitled "An act for the better support of public credit, by an immediate sale of the lands therein mentioned, and fully securing the purchasers thereof in their titles; and also for preserving the common lands appurtenant to the city of Philadelphia and other towns in this state from unwarrantable encroachment, " [blank] bought the lot or piece of land hereinafter described and granted, and in the general plan of the said lots marked "No [blank], " for the sum of [blank] lawful money of Pennsylvania, [blank] being the best and highest bidder. ...
- The following remonstrance, was this day presented to the president and Council, by the hands of their secretary. : To the president and Council of Pennsylvania. The remonstrance of Israel Pemberton, John Hunt, and Samuel Pleasants, sheweth, that Lewis Nicola, is about to deprive us of our liberty, by an order from you ..
- The freeholders and other electors, in the city of Philadelphia, in the Northern Liberties, and district of Southwark, are requested to attend at ten o'clock to-morrow morning, at the State-House, in order to chuse a committee, agreeable to the resolves of Congress
- The gentlemen merchants and citizens are requested to meet on business of importance, this evening at six o'clock, at the British Tavern in Market-Street, lately the Indian King. Monday morning, May 25, 1778
- To the Associators of Pennsylvania. : Gentlemen, Congress have received intelligence that a fleet of the enemy, consisting of several hundred sail, were yesterday discovered near Sandy-Hook, steering to the southward. It is highly probable that their destination is for Delaware and the city of Philadelphia. ... General Washington, at the head of a considerable part of his army, is advancing southward; but, notwithstanding all the dispatch he can possible make, the enemy may arrive before him. ... Congress will do everything in their power to strengthen you. ...
- To the Congress. The remonstrance of the subscribers, citizens of Philadelphia. : Sheweth, That we are now confined by a military guard ... in consequence of a resolve made by you ... "Recommending to the executive powers of the several states, to apprehend, and secure all persons, who have in their general conduct, and conversation, evidenced a disposition inimical to the cause of America, " ..
- To the President and Executive Council, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and others whom it may concern: : the following representation, on behalf of the people called Quakers ..
- To the friends of liberty and the constitution. : My dear fellow citizens, I have been thirteen months unjustly confined in jail ..
- To the president and Executive Council, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and others whom it may concern; : the following representation on behalf of the people called Quakers ..
- War-Office, November 14th, 1776. To the Associators of Pennsylvania. : Gentlemen, Congress have received intelligence that a fleet of the enemy, consisting of several hundred sail, were yesterday discovered near Sandy-Hook, steering to the southward. ..
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