☞ An address to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania, by those freemen, of the city of Philadelphia, who are now confined in the Mason’s lodge, by virtue of a general warrant.
Seven editions of varying lengths, plus a reprint. The first six editions appeared in 1777: two from Philadelphia, one from New York, one from London, and one from Dublin, Ireland, plus a German translation from Philadelphia; the seventh appeared in 1778 from Cork, Ireland. Also reprinted in a nineteenth-century history of the event, edited by Thomas Gilpin and entitled, Exiles in Virginia : with observations on the conduct of the Society of Friends during the revolutionary war, comprising the official papers of the government relating to that period, 1777-1778 (Philadelphia: 1848). In each case, Pemberton appears among several signers, many of them APS members, but catalog records consistently single him out as the text's primary author. Howes and Sabin count just one Philadelphia English edition, but the two extant versions differ significantly in length and appear to be separate typesettings; Evans corroborates this assumption by providing two separate references.
APS has ten copies: eight 1777 Philadelphia editions (one bearing the autograph of Ellis Lee and one presented by William S. Mason), one 1777 London edition (presented by William S. Mason), and a copy of the 1848 history that reprints Pemberton's pamphlet.