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Book/Printed Material By the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation

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Title

  • By the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation : Whereas in pursuance of a plenipotentiary commission, given on the 28th day of September, 1782, to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, a treaty of amity and commerce between His Majesty the King of Sweden and the United States of America, was on the 3rd day of April, 1783, concluded ...

Names

  • Sweden.
  • Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821.
  • Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.
  • Claypoole, David C., 1757?-1849, printer.
  • Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : Printed by David C. Claypoole, [1783]

Headings

  • -  Foreign trade regulation--United States
  • -  United States--Foreign economic relations--Sweden
  • -  Maritime law--United States
  • -  United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia

Genre

  • Broadsides--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1783
  • Proclamations--United States--1783
  • Treaties--United States--1783
  • Treaties--Sweden--1783
  • Broadsheet format (Printing)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1783

Notes

  • -  Includes the full text of the treaty.
  • -  Signed: Done in Congress at Princeton, this twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ... Elias Boudinot, president. Charles Thomson, secretary.
  • -  Text in five columns.
  • -  Evans 18245
  • -  Journals of the Continental Congress, 415
  • -  Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4343
  • -  LC copy annotated on verso: Treaty with Sweden.
  • -  Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress.

Medium

  • 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 62 x 45 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Cont Cong no. 87

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 90898079

Online Format

  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Sweden, Elias Boudinot, Charles Thomson, David C Claypoole, and Continental Congress Broadside Collection. By the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation: Whereas in pursuance of a plenipotentiary commission, given on the 28th day of September, to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, a treaty of amity and commerce between His Majesty the King of Sweden and the United States of America, was on the 3rd day of April, 1783, concluded. [Philadelphia: Printed by David C. Claypoole, 1783] Online Text. https://www.loc.gov/item/90898079/.

APA citation style:

Sweden, Boudinot, E., Thomson, C., Claypoole, D. C. & Continental Congress Broadside Collection. (1783) By the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation: Whereas in pursuance of a plenipotentiary commission, given on the 28th day of September, to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, a treaty of amity and commerce between His Majesty the King of Sweden and the United States of America, was on the 3rd day of April, 1783, concluded. [Philadelphia: Printed by David C. Claypoole] [Online Text] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/90898079/.

MLA citation style:

Sweden, et al. By the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation: Whereas in pursuance of a plenipotentiary commission, given on the 28th day of September, to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, a treaty of amity and commerce between His Majesty the King of Sweden and the United States of America, was on the 3rd day of April, 1783, concluded. [Philadelphia: Printed by David C. Claypoole, 1783] Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/90898079/>.