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 ...
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Proclamation (1781 March 20)
Title
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 ...
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New-London [Conn.] : Printed by Timothy Green, printer to the governor and Company, [1781]
Description
1 online resource (1 broadside)
Summary
April 6, 1781 broadside of the proclamation by Governor John Turnbull of Connecticut, at the direction of the United State Congress, proclaiming May 3rd as a day of fasting and prayer because of the war and other domestic problems.
Note
Followed by: By His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull ... Proclamation. I have thought fit, on the foregoing earnest recommendation ... to appoint ... Thursday the third day of May next, to be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer ... Given under my hand at Lebanon, the sixth day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
Indexed In
Evans 17124
Johnson, H.A. New London, 1108
Johnson, H.A. New London, 1108
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption title (LLMC Digital, viewed November 26, 2019).
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Available in Other Form
Print version: United States. Continental Congress. By the United States in Congress assembled. Proclamation. New-London [Conn.]: : Printed by Timothy Green, printer to the governor and company., [1781]
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Place of Publication or Printing
United States -- Connecticut -- New London.
Language
English
Includes
Connecticut. Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull). Proclamation (1781 April 6)
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