By His Excellency William Greene, Esquire, Governor ... of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. ... A proclamation : Whereas the most honorable the Continental Congress, did, on the twentieth day of March last pass the following resolve ... I have therefore thought fit ... to observe the said first Thursday in May, as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer ... Given under my hand and the seal of the said state, this seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ...