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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC01758 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1777 |
| Title | Mason's Lodge, September 9th, 1777, 10 o'clock P.M. To the inhabitants of Pennsylvania |
| Date | 9 September 1777 |
| Author | Pemberton, Israel (1715-1779) |
| Document Type | Broadside |
| Content Description | Title continues: "the following is a copy of a paper we received at half past four o'clock this afternoon, and we have since received orders to prepare for our banishment to-morrow." Reprints the resolutions issued by Secretary of the Supreme Executive Council Timothy Matlack that banishes twenty-two individuals to Virginia on suspicion of being Loyalist sympathizers. Page 2 includes the "Remonstrance and protest of the subscribers," which charges that the resolutions are arbitrary and unlawful. Evans 15501. |
| Subjects | Loyalist Civil Rights Revolutionary War Law Petition Religion Quaker |
| People | Pemberton, Israel (1715-1779) Hunt, John (1750-1822) Pleasants, Samuel (1737-1807) Pemberton, James (1732-fd.) Gilpin, Thomas (1727-1778) |
| Place written | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Theme | Law; Religion; Government & Politics; The American Revolution |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |