By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor of the English colony of Connecticut... A proclamation, for a day of public fasting and prayer : ... Wednesday the seventeenth day of January next ... Given under my hand in the Council chamber in New-Haven, the nineteenth day of December ... 1775.
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Uniform Title
Proclamation (1775 December 19)
Title
By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor of the English colony of Connecticut... A proclamation, for a day of public fasting and prayer : ... Wednesday the seventeenth day of January next ... Given under my hand in the Council chamber in New-Haven, the nineteenth day of December ... 1775.
Imprint
[New Haven?] : [Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green?], [1775?]
Description
1 online resource (1 broadside) : coat of arms
Summary
December 19, 1775 broadside issued by Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, proclaiming January 17th as a day of fasting and prayer, given the civil war between Great Britain and the colonies. Of note, the governor specifically stated that Britain imposed taxes without the colonies' consent, all in violation of the British Constitution and the colony's charter.
Note
Signed: Jonth. Trumbull.
Dated [1776] and ascribed, by Evans, to the press of Timothy Green of New London; but more likely printed late in 1775 at New Haven by Thomas and Samuel Green. Not in Johnson, H.A. New London.
Dated [1776] and ascribed, by Evans, to the press of Timothy Green of New London; but more likely printed late in 1775 at New Haven by Thomas and Samuel Green. Not in Johnson, H.A. New London.
Indexed In
Evans 14711
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed November 21, 2019).
Online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed November 21, 2019).
Online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed November 21, 2019).
Location
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Available in Other Form
Print version: Connecticut. Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull). By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, governor ... of Connecticut ... A proclamation, for a day of public fasting and prayer. [New Haven? : Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green?, 1775?]
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Alternate Title
LLMC-Digital Collection
Place of Publication or Printing
United States -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
Language
English
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