By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation
Subtitle: whereas it appears by a deposition ... that, on Sunday, the tenth day of this month, a certain Frederick Stump, a German, of Penn's township, in the county of Cumberland, did, in violation of the public faith, and in defiance of all law, inhumanly and wickedly kill, without any provocation, four Indian men, and two Indian women, in his own house ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the nineteenth day of January ... one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight
Contributors: Penn, John, 1729-1795; Hall & Sellers; Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by D. Hall, and W. Sellers
Published: 1768
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Murder; Criminals; Indians of North America; Land tenure
Other titles: Whereas it appears by a deposition ... that, on Sunday, the tenth day of this month, a certain Frederick Stump, a German, of Penn's township, in the county of Cumberland, did, in violation of the public faith, and in defiance of all law, inhumanly and wickedly kill, without any provocation, four Indian men, and two Indian women, in his own house ...
Notes: Offering a reward for the apprehension of Frederick Stump.

Signed: John Penn.

Royal arms at head of title.

Bristol B2927

ESTC W23556