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By the Honourable John Penn

January 1764

Broadside

Call No. Ab 1764 1

This proclamation calls for the arrest of the Paxton Boys. Pennsylvania Governor John Penn had issued one following the Conestoga Massacre, and then another at the beginning of January – the month that the Paxton Boys marched on Philadelphia.

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