By order of His Excellency Sir William Howe, K.B. general and commander in chief, &c. &c. &c. Proclamation : I do hereby give notice to the inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia and its environs, it is the order of His Excellency, that "No person whatever, living within the said city and its environs shall appear in the streets between the beating of the tatoo, at half an hour after eight o'clock in the evening, and the revellie [sic] in the morning, without a lanthorn.
| Author/creator | Great Britain. Army |
| Other author/creator | Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814. |
| Other author/creator | Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | [Philadelphia] : [Printed by James Humphreys, Junr], [1778] |
| Description | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
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| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15817. ^A478749 |
| General note | Ordering a curfew in Philadelphia. |
| General note | Signed: Given under my hand at Philadelphia, this 9th day of January, in the eighteenth year of His Majesty's reign. Jos. Galloway, superintendent-general. |
| General note | At head of title: royal arms. |
| General note | Imprint supplied by Evans. |
| References | Evans 15817 |
| References | Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3788 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15817). |
| Genre/form | Broadsides. |
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