To the merchants and other inhabitants of Pennsylvania That Baltimore town, in Maryland, has within a few years past carried off from this city, almost the whole of the trade of Fredrick [sic], York, Bedford, and Cumberland counties, is a fact of general notoriety - Friend to trade (s.n, 1771)
Evans, 12246. - Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2718. - Recommending canals between the Chesapeake and Delaware, and the Susquehanna and Schuylkill Rivers; free ferry service across the Susquehanna River; and improvement and maintenance of the turnpike between Lancaster and Philadelphia, as means for recovering trade. - Signed and dated: A friend to trade. Philadelphia, Dec. 13, 1771