Imprint Record

Test Act.

• Imprint Number: 1777.005
• Title: An act to oblige the free male inhabitants of this state above a certain age to give assurance of allegiance to the same, and for other purposes.
• Sequence Number: 5
• Year: 1777
• Place Issued: Williamsburg
• Issuing Press: Alexander Purdie
• Author: Virginia. General Assembly.
• Notes: Imprint lacks colophon; simply a one leaf notice of an act passed at the Assembly of May 1777, with typography similar to setting employed in the session law; Purdie was then the printer to the Commonwealth, so the attribution here.
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • Alexander Purdie, Sr.

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