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- GLC#
- GLC06670.121-View header record
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- December 12, 1747
- Author/Creator
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Title
- Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 991 (December 12, 1747)]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 31 cm, Width: 21.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- Native Americans
Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 1 through 4. Proclamation by the president and council of the province of Pennsylvania calling for a day of fasting. Article discussing division of Philadelphia lottery proceeds. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.
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