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By the Honorable Stephen Hopkins, Esq; governor ... of Rhode-Island .. A proclamation. : ... I issue this proclamation, hereby ordering that Thursday, the twenty-second day of November current, be observed and kept by all the inhabitants of this colony, as a day of public thanksgiving ... Given under my hand, at the Council chamber, at South-Kingstown, the second day of November ... Annoq; dom. 1759.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 41073
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Rhode Island. Governor (1755-1757 : Hopkins)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41073.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Thanksgiving day proclamations -- 1759 Nov. 22.
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 35 x 29 cm
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- [Newport, R.I.] : [Printed by James Franklin], [1759]
- Notes:
- The earliest recorded Thanksgiving proclamation of the colony.
- Signed: Step. Hopkins.
- Imprint supplied by Alden.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41073).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B2067
- Shipton & Mooney 41073
- Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 213
- OCLC:
- 55834425
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