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By His Excellency Collonel Benjamin Fletcher captain general and governour in chief of His Majesties province of New-York, &c. A proclamation[.] : Whereas there is of late great scarcity of bread in the city of New-York amongst the inhabitants thereof ... I do by these presents prohibite [sic] the exportation of any wheat in grain throughout the whole province, without limitation of time ... Given at Fort William Henry the 31th day of May ... annoq; Domini 1697.

Author/creator New York (Colony). Governor (1692-1698 : Fletcher)
Other author/creatorFletcher, Benjamin, 1640-1703.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[New York] : Printed by William Bradford, printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, in the city of New-York, 1697.
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 806. ^A478749
General notePlacing restrictions on the export of grain.
General noteSigned: Ben. Fletcher. God save the King.
General noteRoyal arms at head of title.
References Evans 806
References Wing (2nd ed.) F1319
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. 806).
Genre/formBroadsides.

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