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- GLC#
- GLC01758
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- September 9, 1777
- Author/Creator
- Pemberton, Israel, fl. 1777
- Title
- Mason's Lodge, September 9th, 1777, 10 o'clock P.M. To the inhabitants of Pennsylvania.
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 34 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Title continues: "the following is a copy of a paper we received at half past four o'clock this afternoon, and we have since received orders to prepare for our banishment to-morrow." Reprints the resolutions issued by Secretary of the Supreme Executive Council Timothy Matlack that banishes twenty-two individuals to Virginia on suspicion of being Loyalist sympathizers. Page 2 includes the "Remonstrance and protest of the subscribers," which charges that the resolutions are arbitrary and unlawful. Evans 15501.
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