1838 Colonial Pennsylvania Provincial Council Minutes 1683-1717 America Politics

1838 Colonial Pennsylvania Provincial Council Minutes 1683-1717 America Politics

The Pennsylvania Provincial Council was an early colonial American governmental council designed to help manage the state of Pennsylvania until America gained its independence. In the 17^th– and early 18^th-century, this council discussed the powers of the courts and made judicial decisions through council meetings. The minutes, correspondence, and attendees of these council meetings were published in this 1838 Harrisburg edition.

Topics of interest:

• Relationships with Native American tribes
  • Hostilities and treaties with Pennsylvania settlers
  • Rumors of war between tribes
  • Relationships with the French
• Trials for witchcraft
• Laws against piracy, including warrant for the arrest of Edward Teach (Blackbeard)
• Indians harboring runaway slaves

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State of Pennsylvania

Minutes of the Provincial council of Pennsylvania : from the organization to the termination of proprietary government

Harrisburg: printed by Theophilus Fenn, 1838. 1^st edition

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
  • I – [6], XLVIII, [2], 602
  • II – [6], 3-662
  • III – [16], 674 (i.e., 675), [1]
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather
• Size: ~8.75in X 5.5in (22cm x 13.5cm)

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