By His Excellency Arthur Fenner, Esq; governor ... of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. A proclamation : Whereas the General Assembly ... resolved, that it be and hereby is recommended to the people of this state, to observe Thursday the twenty-eighth day of November inst. as a day of public and devout prayer and thanksgiving ... Given under my hand, and the seal of the said state, at Providence, this fifth day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine ...