By His Excellency Thomas Chittenden, Esquire ... a proclamation.
Subtitle: Whereas the legislature of this state, at their session in June last, for the reasons hereafter exhibited, did extend their claim of jurisdiction ... I have therefore thought fit ... to issue this proclamation, and do hereby strictly require, charge and command all persons of whatsoever quality or denomination residing within the said western claim of jurisdiction, to take due notice of the laws and orders of this state ... Given under my hand ... at Arlington, this 18th day of July, A.D. 1781 ...
Contributors: Chittenden, Thomas, 1730-1797.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17403.
Publisher: Printed by J.P. Spooner
Published: 1781
Place of publication: [Westminster, Vt
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Broadsides.; Vermont -- Politics and government -- To 1791.; Vermont -- Boundaries -- New York (State).; New York (State) -- Boundaries -- Vermont.
Notes: A proclamation extending Vermont's jurisdiction westerly from the northwest corner of Massachusetts into New York.

Signed: Thomas Chittenden. By His Excellency's command, Thomas Tolman, dep. sec'ry.

Evans' imprint corrected by McCorison, based on the fact that after July 9, 1781, J.P. Spooner no longer printed with Timothy Green.

Evans 17403.

McCorison, M.A.  Vermont, 41.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17403).