By His Excellency the president, and Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a proclamation.
Subtitle: Whereas there is just cause to believe that our cruel and inveterate enemies, despairing of the conquest of America by open and manly force, are about to adopt the mean and savage policy of distress and depredation. ... Given ... at Philadelphia, this second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ..
Contributors: Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 16431.
Publisher: Printed by Hall and Sellers.
Published: 1779
Place of publication: [Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Notes: Exhorting the populace to prepare to resist the enemy's imminent "policy of distress and depredation."

Signed: Joseph Reed, president. Attest. T. Matlack, secretary.

Coat of arms at head of title.

Evans 16431.

Hildeburn, C.R.  Pennsylvania, 3936.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 16431)