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Title: In Council, Lancaster, May 29, 1778. Instructions to the agents, appointed by virtue of the act entitled: An Act for the Attainder of divers Traitors ...; 137. Bryan, George, 1731-1791. Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829.In Council, Lancaster, May 29, 1778 : Instructions to the agents, appointed by virtue of the act entitled: An Act for the Attainder of divers Traitors
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7034
Description: American Philosophical Society
Subject: Media; Mobilizing the Populace; Broadsides; American loyalists
Date: 1778-5-29; 2022

Title: Washington, George to George Bryan, 1778 May 28; No. 1532 George Washington to George Bryan
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:686
Description: Sends condolences on the death of the President of the [Pennsylvania] Council [Thomas Wharton, Jr.]; informs him that Washington will advise the Council if the marquis de Lafayette leaves the army and accepts an appointment as ambassador to the United States from the court of France; postscript: recommends that if the British evacuate Philadelphia, the civil authority of Pennsylvania establish itself as soon as possible in the city in order to protect private property and "Citizens of every denomination."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Date: 1778-05-28; 2021

Title: Committee of Merchants & Manufacturers of Boston to Merchants of Philadelphia, 1768 August 11; 7. Committee of Merchants & Manufacturers of Boston. to Merchants of Philadelphia
Identifier(s): text:352071
Description: Letter from John Hughes to John Swift, Alexander Barclay and Thomas Graeme. Further account of protests: "The State House and Christ Church Bells were run, muffled and two Negroe Drummers (one of whom belonged to Alderman Saml. Mifflin) beat thro' all parts of the City, with muffled Drums -- thereby alarming the Inhabitants. In consequence whereof, a large Number of People was raised and assembled at the State House, where it was publickly declared, as I am informed, That if I did not immediately resign my Office, my House should be pulled down and my Substance destroyed..."; Copy
Subject: Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century; Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765); Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia; Hancock, John, 1737-1793; Erving, John; Phillips, William, 1731?-1781; Willing, Thomas, 1731-1821; Smith, Thomas, 1745-1809; Cox, John; Bryan, George, 1731-1791; Fisher, William; Great Britain. Parliament
Date: 1768-08-11; 2022