By His Excellency Thomas Chittenden, Esquire ... a proclamation : Whereas the legislature of this state, at their session in June last, for the reasons hereafter exhibited, did extend their claim of jurisdiction ... I have therefore thought fit ... to issue this proclamation, and do hereby strictly require, charge and command all persons of whatsoever quality or denomination residing within the said western claim of jurisdiction, to take due notice of the laws and orders of this state ... Given under my hand ... at Arlington, this 18th day of July, A.D. 1781

By His Excellency Thomas Chittenden, Esquire ... a proclamation : Whereas the legislature of this state, at their session in June last, for the reasons hereafter exhibited, did extend their claim of jurisdiction ... I have therefore thought fit ... to issue this proclamation, and do hereby strictly require, charge and command all persons of whatsoever quality or denomination residing within the said western claim of jurisdiction, to take due notice of the laws and orders of this state ... Given under my hand ... at Arlington, this 18th day of July, A.D. 1781.

Author/creator	Vermont. Governor (1778-1789 : Chittenden)
Other author/creator	Chittenden, Thomas, 1730-1797.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Westminster, Vt.] : [Printed by J.P. Spooner], [1781]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content	Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Vermont--Politics and government --To 1791. Vermont--Boundaries --New York (State) New York (State)--Boundaries --Vermont.

Series	Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17403. ^A478749
General note	A proclamation extending Vermont's jurisdiction westerly from the northwest corner of Massachusetts into New York.
General note	Signed: Thomas Chittenden. By His Excellency's command, Thomas Tolman, dep. sec'ry.
General note	Evans' imprint corrected by McCorison, based on the fact that after July 9, 1781, J.P. Spooner no longer printed with Timothy Green.
References	Evans 17403
References	McCorison, M.A. Vermont, 41
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. 17403).
Genre/form	Broadsides.

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