To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esquire, governor and commander in chief in and over the province of Maryland, and to the Honorable the upper and lower houses of Assembly of the said province : the petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of Baltimore County, humbly sheweth, that the present Court-House for Baltimore County, situate in Joppa, is considerably too small for transacting therein the business of the county with convenience

To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esquire, governor and commander in chief in and over the province of Maryland, and to the Honorable the upper and lower houses of Assembly of the said province : the petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of Baltimore County, humbly sheweth, that the present Court-House for Baltimore County, situate in Joppa, is considerably too small for transacting therein the business of the county with convenience.

Other author/creator	Sharpe, Horatio, 1718-1790.
Other author/creator	Maryland. General Assembly.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Baltimore] : [Printed by Nicholas Hasselbach], [1768?]
Description	1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages) ; 44 x 28 cm
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Joppa (Md.)--History. Baltimore (Md.)--History. Maryland--Politics and government --To 1775.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41794. ^A478749
General note	Concerning the removal of the county seat from Joppa to Baltimore.
General note	Followed by a German translation. "If this petition was printed in Baltimore, it was the first piece of printing done in Maryland in the German language and type."--Wroth.
General note	Imprint supplied by Bristol.
References	Bristol B2842
References	Shipton & Mooney 41794
References	Wroth, L.C. Maryland, 287
References	Bötte & Tannhof. German printing, 354
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic 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. 41794).
Other title	An seine Excellenz Horatio Scharpe, Esqueir, Guvernör und Oberst-Befehlshaber in und über die Provinz Maryland ...

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