By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, governor and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania, and counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex, on Delaware, a proclamation [electronic resource] : Whereas by my proclamation, bearing date the fifteenth day of September last past ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five ..

April 8, 1775 Proclamation by Pennsylvania Governor John Penn revoking the proclamation of November 2, 1774, and re-proclaiming the extension of Pennsylvania authority to the Maryland lines, as proclaimed September 15, 1774. A copy of the September proclamation is included at end.