By the Honourable James Hamilton, Esq; president, and the Council of the province of Pennsylvania, a proclamation.
Subtitle: Whereas a number of persons, chiefly of the colony of Connecticut, have lately ... possessed themselves of, and settled upon a large tract of land on the River Susquehanna ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one ..
Contributors: Hamilton, James, 1710-1783.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42264.
Publisher: Printed by D. Hall, and W. Sellers.
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Pennsylvania.; Squatters -- Pennsylvania.; Squatter settlements -- Pennsylvania.; Connecticut -- Public lands.; Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Notes: Proclaiming enforcement of a recent act against "tumults and riotous assemblies," on pain of death, in an effort to forestall armed trespass on and unauthorized settlement of land in Pennsylvania.

Royal arms at head of title.

Signed: James Hamilton, president. By order of the President and Council, Joseph Shippen, Junior, secretary.

Bristol B3375.

Shipton & Mooney 42264.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42264)