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Proclamation : Whereas, in just punishment of our manifold transgressions, it hath pleased the Supreme Disposer of all events to visit these United States with a calamitous war ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states to appoint the first Thursday in May next to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer to Almighty God ..
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Proclamation : Whereas, in just punishment of our manifold transgressions, it hath pleased the Supreme Disposer of all events to visit these United States with a calamitous war ... Resolved, that it be recommended to the several states to appoint the first Thursday in May next to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer to Almighty God ...
Published
Philadelphia : Printed by Hall and Sellers, [1779]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 42 x 33 cm.
Notes
Signed: Done in Congress, this twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ... John Jay, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary.
LC copy annotated on verso: Proclamation for Continental Fast 1779.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Evans, C. American bibliography, 16552
Journals of the Continental Congress, 250
Subjects
Genre/Form
Broadsides - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - 1779.
Fast day proclamations - United States - 1779.
Broadsheet format (Printing) - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - 1779.
Also listed under
Hall & Sellers, printer.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
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