In Congress, Saturday, March 16, 1776. : In times of impending calamity and distress; when the liberties of America are imminently endangered ... the Congress .. do earnesty recommend, that Friday, the seventeenth day of May next, be observed by the said colonies as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer ...

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Continental Congress.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 15132.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Fast day proclamations -- 1776 May 17.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by John Dunlap., [1776]

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text file

Notes:

Resolve of the Continental Congress introduced by William Livingston and passed Mar. 16, 1776.

Signed: By order of Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary.

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Evans 15132

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