By the United States in Congress assembled. Proclamation. : At all times it is our duty to acknowledge the over-ruling providence of the great Governor of the Universe ... recommend, that Thursday the third day of May next may be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer .. Done in Congress the twentieth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one ...

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Continental Congress.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17386.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fast day proclamations -- 1781 May 3.

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [Printed by Benjamin Edes and Sons], [1781]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Followed by: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Agreeably to the above proclamation, I do ... recommend that Thursday the third day of May next, be observed ... as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, the eleventh day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one ... John Hancock.

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Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 17386).

Cited in:

Evans 17386

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2301

Contains:

Massachusetts. Governor (1780-1785 : Hancock). Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Agreeably to the above ... [April 11, 1781].

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