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By His Excellency George Washington, Esquire, general and commander in chief of the forces of the United States of America : By virtue of the power and direction to me especially given, I hereby enjoin and require all persons residing within seventy miles of my head quarters to thresh one half of their grain by the 1st day of February ... Given under my hand, at head quarters, near the Valley Forge, in Philadelphia County, this 20th day of December, 1777.

Author/creator United States. Continental Army
Other author/creatorWashington, George, 1732-1799.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLancaster [Pa.] : Printed by John Dunlap, [1777]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15634. ^A478749
General noteSigned: G. Washington. By His Excellency's command, Robert H. Harrison, sec'y.
References Evans 15634
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. 15634).
Genre/formBroadsides.

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