By the Honourable John Penn, Esquire, governor and commander in chief of the province of Pennsylvania ... a proclamation : Whereas I have received information, that several ill-disposed persons ... have lately presumed to seat themselves upon lands ... not as yet purchased of the Indians ... I ... issue this my proclamation ... requiring all ... persons, already settled or residing on any lands beyond the boundary line of the last Indian purchase, immediately to evacuate their illegal settlements ... Given ... at Philadelphia, the twentieth day of September ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three.