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By His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher, captain general and governour in chief of the province of New-York ... A proclamation : ... I do hereby strictly prohibit the breaking of the Lord's Day, all prophane swearing, cursing, drunkenness, idleness and unlawful gaming ... Given under my hand at Philadelphia the 29th day of April, 1693.

Author/creator New York (Colony). Governor (1692-1698 : Fletcher)
Other author/creatorFletcher, Benjamin, 1640-1703.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Philadelphia] : [Printed by William Bradford], [1693]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 668. ^A478749
General noteSigned: Ben. Fletcher.
General notePrinted by William Bradford, most probably at Philadelphia, though Eames (in his "The First Year of Printing in New-York") and Evans suggest New York as place of printing. See Reese, W. "The Bradford Imprints," in: New-York Historical Society Quarterly 63 (1979): 55-68.
References Evans 668
References Wing (2nd ed.) F1301
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. 668).
Genre/formBroadsides.

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