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In Congress, Saturday, March 16, 1776. : In times of impending calamity and distress ... The Congress therefore .. do earnestly recommend, that Friday, the seventeenth day of May next, be observed by the said colonies as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer ...
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 15133
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Government document
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Continental Congress.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15133.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Fast day proclamations -- 1776 May 17.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 44 x 35 cm
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- [Watertown, Mass.] : [Printed by Benjamin Edes], [1776]
- Notes:
- Resolution of the Continental Congress passed Mar. 16, 1776.
- Signed: By order of Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thompson [i.e., Thomson], secretary.
- Followed by: Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay. In Council, April 3, 1776. Read and accepted, and ordered that a suitable number be printed ... In the House of Representatives, April 4, 1776. Read and concurr'd. ...
- Imprint supplied by Evans.
- Printed area measures 36.7 x 22.9 cm.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15133).
- Cited in:
- Evans 15133
- Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1949
- OCLC:
- 99015265
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