By the Honourable William Dummer, Esq; ... A proclamation for apprehending Henry Phillips : ... Given at Boston the fourth day of July 1728

By the Honourable William Dummer, Esq; ... A proclamation for apprehending Henry Phillips : ... Given at Boston the fourth day of July 1728.

Author/creator	Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor (1716-1730 : Dummer)
Other author/creator	Dummer, William, 1677-1761.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Boston : Printed by B. Green, printer to his honour the lieut. governour, 1728.
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : coat of arms
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Phillips, Henry, 1704-1729. Woodbridge, Benjamin, 1709-1728. Murder--Massachusetts --Boston. Dueling--Massachusetts --Boston.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39893. ^A478749
General note	Signed: By order of the Honourable the Lieut. Governour, W. Dummer. Josiah Willard, secr.
General note	Henry Phillips killed Benjamin Woodbridge, a young Boston merchant, in a duel on July 3, 1728, and escaped to France the following day. This duel caused a great sensation in Boston, the outcome being that Phillips was indicted for murder by a grand jury and the General Court enacted a law placing heavy penalties on dueling. Cf. sketch of Henry Phillips in Sibley's Harvard graduates.
References	Bristol B763
References	Shipton & Mooney 39893
References	Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 548
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. 39893).
Genre/form	Broadsides.

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