PROCLAMATION
ALL DESERTERS from the Pennsylvania State Navy Fleet, since their retreat above the city of Philadelphia,1 that do return and deliver themselves up to me, or any Officer of the said fleet, on or before the first day of September next, shall have full pardon.
JOHN HAZELWOOD, C.P.F.2
Philadelphia, July 26.
The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser, 26 July 1778.
1. That retreat took place in Nov., 1777.
2. That is, Commodore Pennsylvania Fleet.
