By His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq; ... A proclamation Whereas the General Assembly of this province, upon due consideration of the present state and circumstances of the French settlements upon the island of Cape-Breton, have judged it expedient to attempt the reduction of that place to the obedience of the crown of Great Britain, and have voted a suitable encouragement for the enlistment of a number of voluntiers for that service ... Given at the Council-chamber in Portsmouth, the second day of February 1744 [new style, 1745] (Printed by John Draper, 1745)
Bristol, B1301. - Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 817. - Printed by John Draper, of Boston, based on woodcut of royal arms (Reilly 876). - Shipton & Mooney, 40385. - Signed: By order of his excellency the governour with the advice of the Council, B. Wentworth. Theodore Atkinson, secr