Mason's Lodge, September 9th, 1777 ... To the inhabitants of Pennsylvania.
Subtitle: The following is a copy of a paper we received at half past four o'clock this afternoon, and we have since received orders to prepare for our banishment tomorrow.
Contributors: Pemberton, Israel, 1715-1779.; Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15501.; Early American imprints -- no. 43279.
Publisher: Printed by Robert Bell
Published: 1777
Place of publication: [Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania.; Conscientious objectors -- Pennsylvania.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Conscientious objectors.
Notes: Includes a copy of the council's resolves of Sept. 9th, concerning persons refusing to take the oath of allegiance, and on p. 2: To the president and council of Pennsylvania. The remonstrance and protest of the subscribers; signed: Israel Pemberton [and twenty-one others].

Pemberton and the others, principally Quakers, opposed the Revolution because of their religious convictions, and refused to take the oath of allegiance. For this they were imprisoned, first at Mason's Lodge, and later in Virginia, until April 1778.

Imprint supplied by Evans.

Evans 15501.

Bristol B4501.

Shipton & Mooney 43279.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15501; 43279).