Proclamation : Whereas, in just punishment of our manifold transgressions, it hath pleased the Supreme Disposer of all events to visit these United States with a calamitous war ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states to appoint the first Thursday in May next to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer ... Done in Congress, this twentieth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 16241. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | Followed by: By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire ... A proclamation. Agreeable to the foregoing recommendation of Congress, I have thought fit ... to appoint, and do hereby appoint the first Thursday of May next, to be observed as a day of fasting ... Given under my hand, in the Council-chamber at Hartford, the ninth day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine ... Evans, who does not locate a copy, erroneously supplies imprint: New London: Printed by Timothy Green, 1779. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Connecticut -- Hartford. |