To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esquire, governor and commander in chief in and over the province of Maryland, and to the Honorable the upper and lower houses of Assembly of the said province
Subtitle: the petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of Baltimore County, humbly sheweth, that the present Court-House for Baltimore County, situate in Joppa, is considerably too small for transacting therein the business of the county with convenience ..
Contributors: Sharpe, Horatio, 1718-1790.; Maryland. General Assembly.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 41794.
Publisher: Printed by Nicholas Hasselbach
Published: 1768
Place of publication: [Baltimore
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Joppa (Md.) -- History.; Baltimore (Md.) -- History.; Maryland -- Politics and government -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Other titles: An seine Excellenz Horatio Scharpe, Esqueir, Guverno r und Oberst-Befehlshaber in und u ber die Provinz Maryland ..
Notes: Concerning the removal of the county seat from Joppa to Baltimore.

Followed by a German translation. "If this petition was printed in Baltimore, it was the first piece of printing done in Maryland in the German language and type."--Wroth.

Imprint supplied by Bristol.

Bristol B2842.

Shipton & Mooney 41794.

Wroth, L.C.  Maryland 287.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41794)