By The Honourable John Penn, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania, and Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, A Proclamation. : Whereas His Majesty, by His Royal Proclamation, given at St. James's the Seventh Day of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-three ... was graciously pleased to declare and enjoin, that the Trade with the several Nations of Tribes of Indians ... should be free and open to all His Majesty's Subjects whatever ... Given under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the said Province, at Philadelphia, the Fourth Day of June, in the Fifth Year of His Majesty's Reign, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-five

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (printer); Hall, David, 1714-1772 (printer)

Name:

Pennsylvania; Penn, John, 1729-1795

Date:

1765

Language:

English

Provenance:

Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy); Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (former owner)

Publisher:

Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall

Subject:

Indians of North America -- Commerce; Commerce

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Broadsides -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 18th century

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page); 42 x 34 cm

Geographic Subject:

Pennsylvania -- Commerce; Pennsylvania

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Opening trade with the Indians.; Signed: John Penn. By His Honour's command, Joseph Shippen, Junior, secretary.; At head of title: royal arms.; Broadside.; Not in Hildeburn.; Online version available via Colenda; Culture Class Collection copy is part of the Benjamin Franklin Papers presented to the University of Pennsylvania Library in 1903 by S. Weir Mitchell and others.; Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription on verso which reads "Proclamation for opening a trade with the Indians. June 4, 1765."

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Mapcase AB7 P3845L2 765b

Collection:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)