Quarantine Proclamation (Summer 1804).

• imprint_number: 1804.032
• title: By the governor of the commonwealth of Virginia, a proclamation. …
• sequence_number: 32
• year: 1804
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Samuel Pleasants
• author: Page, John (1744-1808), governor.
• notes: The copy that Swem saw at the Library of Congress not in that repository's current catalog; contemporaneous newspaper accounts indicate that Page issued this set of instructions to the quarantine officers in Virginia's ports in June or July 1804 in response to a fever epidemic then raging in the West Indies.
  Sheet lacks colophon; printing such proclamations was a responsibility of the public printer, then Samuel Pleasants, so the attribution.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • Samuel Pleasants, Jr.

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