Citation - Pennsylvania Evening Post: 1778.01.08

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Index Entry Drums, in Philadelphia, beat tattoo at eight, lanthorns necessary after that 
Location Philadelphia 
Citation
PEP.778.004
8 Jan 1778:111 (4/441)
By Order of his excellency Sir William Howe, K. B. General
and commander in chief, &c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
I do hereby give notice to the inhabitants of the city of
Philadelphia and its environs, it is the order of his
excellency, that "No person whatever, living within the said
city and its environs, shall appear in the streets between
the beating of the tattoo at half an hour after eight
o'clock in the evening and the reveille in the morning,
without lanthorns.
. . . [10 more lines]
[signed] Jos. Galloway, Superintendent General.


Generic Title Pennsylvania Evening Post 
Date 1778.01.08 
Publisher Towne, Benjamin 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1778 
Bibliography B0034163
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