By the United States in Congress assembled: A proclamation. : Whereas it hath pleased the Supreme Ruler of all human events, to dispose the hearts of the late belligerent powers ... recommend .. to set apart the second Thursday in December next as a day of public thanksgiving ... Done by the United States in Congress assembled ... this eighteenth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ...

Format:

Government document

Microformat

Author/Creator:

United States. Continental Congress.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17888.

Language:

English

Genre:

Thanksgiving day proclamations -- 1783 Dec. 11.

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 50 x 39 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

New-London [Conn.]: : Printed by Timothy Green, printer to the governor and company., [1783]

Notes:

Followed by: By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull ... A proclamation. Whereas since issuing my proclamation appointing the twentieth day of November instant ... a day of public thanksgiving in this state, the foregoing has been received from the president of Congress ... Whereupon it is judged expedient to postpone the day appointed ... Given under my hand at Lebanon, this seventh day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ...

Printed area measures 38.3 x 26.8 cm.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17888).

Cited in:

Evans 17888

Johnson, H.A. New London, 1129

Contains:

Connecticut. Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull). By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull ... A proclamation [Nov. 7, 1783].

OCLC:

55841591