To the President and Executive Council, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and others whom it may concern : the following representation on behalf of the people called Quakers ...

To the President and Executive Council, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and others whom it may concern : the following representation on behalf of the people called Quakers ... [Philadelphia : Printed by Francis Bailey, 1781].

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At head of title: "Philadelphia, 12th Month, 6th, 1781. On the 26th ultimo a Committee of six Friends, by appointment waited on the President of the Executive Council, and the Speaker of the General Assembly with Copies of the following Representation, to request the Favour of them to lay the same before each of the public Bodies at which they respectively presided, which they obligingly undertook, and it is now printed for the Use of the Members of our own Society, and the information of others who are unacquainted with our religious Principles."

Published also under title: A representation on behalf of the people called Quakers.

Signed at the end: John Drinker, clerk.

A statement from a leading group of Philadelphia Quakers, presented to the Pennsylvania Assembly, regarding their persecution for their belief in abstaining from participating in the American Revolution.

Printer's name from Evans, C. American bibliography.

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