By the president of the Delaware state, a proclamation.
Subtitle: Whereas it is discovered, that the British prisoners lately captured in the state of Virginia, find means to escape from the places of their confinement ... I ... issue this proclamation hereby strictly forbidding ... all persons to harbour or employ any prisoners of war ... Given under my hand and the great-seal of the state, at New-Castle, this twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
Contributors: Dickinson, John, 1732-1808.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17135.
Publisher: Printed by James Adams
Published: 1781
Place of publication: [Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Delaware -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Notes: Signed: John Dickinson, president. By His Excellency's command, James Booth, secretary.

Imprint supplied by Rink.

Evans 17135.

Rink, E.  Delaware, 136.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17135)