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BG.777.011
24 Mar 1777:22 (1176)
Philadelphia, March 6. Yesterday at noon "his Excellency
Thomas Wharton, jun Esq; President of the Supreme Executive
Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Captain General
and Commander in Chief to and over the same," was proclaimed
at the Court-House in the presence of a vast concourse of
people. . .
The procession began at the Statehouse, and was conducted
in the following order, viz. . .. [no music in procession.
All dined together at the city tavern, where an
entertainment was provided by order of the House. The
members of Congress then in the city, and the general
officers of the army of the United States of America being
also present.
After dinner the following healths were drank under the
discharge of cannon, &c. . .
The bells of the city were rang, and the whole was
conducted with the utmost decency, and no accident happened
of any kind.
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