Philadelphia 18th 12th mo. 1790.
Subtitle: Yesterday a deputation of the religious society called Quakers, attended the House of Representatives of the United States with the following address and memorial asserting the rights of conscience and the reasons of their restraint from complying with military requisitions. To the President, Senate, and House of Representatives ... in Congress assembled. ...
Contributors: Waln, Nicholas, 1742-1813.; United States. Congress; United States.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 22517.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1790
Place of publication: [Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Society of Friends -- Controversial literature; Pacifism; Conscientious objectors -- United States; Conscientious objectors -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Draft -- United States; Broadsides
Other titles: To the President, Senate, and House of Representatives ...
Notes: Memorial from the yearly meeting convened in Philadelphia, expressing opposition to "A bill more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States."

Signed: Nicholas Waln, clerk to the meeting this year.

Printed area measures 36.7 x 20.9 cm.

READEX NOTE: Also filmed as Evans 21844. Shipton & Mooney note: "The Evans entry is apparently an error for this." In dismissing Evans entry 21844, Shipton & Mooney were unaware of an unrecorded broadside edition of the text called for by Evans (copy at MWA).

Evans 22517.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22517).