Court: Proclamation listing Chester County Inhabitants Accused of High Treason 
(1778): Chester County, PA

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May 13, 1778  The Pennsylvania Packet
A PROCLAMATION
By the SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL of the Common Wealth of Pennsylvania

WHEREAS the following named persons, late and heretofore inhabitants of
this State  -  That is to say   
 
Enoch Story, late merchant; 
Samuel Garrigues, the elder, late clerk of the market and trader; 
James Stevenson, late baker; 
Abraham Carlisle, house carpenter; 
Peter Deshong, miller;
Alexander Bartram, trader; 
Christian Hook, attorney at law; 
Peter Miller, scrivener; 
Lodowick Kerker, butcher; 
Philip Marchinton, trader; 
Edward Hanlon, cooper and vintner; 
Alfred Cliffton, gentleman; and 
Arthur Thomas, breeches maker; all now, or late of the city of Philadelphia; And 
Thomas Livizley, late of the township of Roxborough, miller; 
John Roberts, late of the township of Lower Merion, miller; 
Robert Iredale, the younger, and 
Thomas Iredale, both late of the township of Abingdon, blacksmith; 
John Knight, tanner, 
Isaac Knight, Husbandman; 
Albinson Walton, late of the township of Biberry, husbandman; 
John Smith, late gauger of the port of Philadelphia; and 
Henry Hugh Ferguson, commissary of prisoners for General Howe, all late of the 
      county of Philadelphia; and 
Samuel Biles, Esquire, late sheriff of the county of Bucks; 
Walter Willey, late of the township of Southhampton, husbandman; 
Richard Hevenden, late of the township of Newtown, trader; and 
William Moland, late of the township of Warminster, husbandman; all late of the 
        county of Bucks: And 
HENRY SKYLES, 
Thomas Bull, and 
DAVID DAWSON, husbandmen; 
Jacob James, late of the township of Goshen, inn keeper;
Joseph Thomas, (heretofore sub sheriff) yeoman; 
Nathaniel Vernon, junior, labourer; and 
JOHN SWANCICK, late of the custom house, Philadelphia; all late of the county of 
     Chester.......
WE the Supreme Executive Council aforesaid, by virtue of certain powers and
authorities to us given by an Act of General Assembly, entitled, "An Act for
the attainder of divers Traitors, if they render not themselves by a certain
day, and for vesting their estates in this Common Wealth; and for more
effectually discovering the same; and for a certaining and satisfying the
lawful debts and claims thereupon," ........
from and after the said twenty fifth day June next, stand and be attainted
of High Treason to all intents and purposes, and shall suffer such pains and
penalties, and  undergo all such forfeitures as persons attainted of High
Treason ought to do.  And all the faithful subjects of this State are to
take notice of this Proclamation, and govern themselves accordingly.
GIVEN, by order of the Council, under the Hand of His Excellency the
President and the Seal of the State, at Lancaster, this eight day of May, in
the year of our Lord One
Thousand seven hundred and seventy eight.
By order of Council,
THOMAS WHARTON, Junior, President.
GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH.  Attested by order of Council.
T. MATLACK, Secretary.